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Activity of the Dramatic Society has been stimulated by the registration of 50 candidates last night at a meeting behind the Grant Study. A search is under way for a new play, to be produced about the beginning of February, in collaboration with Beaver Country Day, a girl's school in Brookline with special dramatic facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC SOCIETY STARTS NEW YEAR | 12/3/1943 | See Source »

...strange pair in British public life have been Mephistophelean Lord Beaverbrook, 64, nominally Tory, and the editor of his deft, double-edged Evening Standard: Michael Foot, 30, cold, keen and Left. The Beaver has a weakness for tough guys, likes raising hell, hates softness in any form. Mike Foot hates old-line Tories. Last week the two deftly altered their two-year-old official relationship and deftly left their unofficial partnership untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Beaver's Foot | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

This time, Cassius Foot drove to the hilt his thesis that "the Right preferred Fascism to reform; the Left did not drive home their advantage when they had it"; that expedient toleration of Fascists is as criminal as Fascism itself. This time the Beaver could not look the other way; his fellow Cabinet members were angry. He dropped Foot, ostensibly for violation of a contract provision against outside writing. In the good clubs there were grunts of satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Beaver's Foot | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Politicians wondered uneasily how many young Britons would find his logic good. Their uneasiness rose when they learned that the circulation-wise Beaver had worked a neat piece of journalistic legerdemain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Beaver's Foot | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

This week the Standard announced a new writer: Michael Foot, whose signed contributions will also appear in Beaverbrook's Daily and Sunday Express. But henceforth, the Beaver assumes no editorial responsibility for Mike Foot-and Mike Foot none for the Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Beaver's Foot | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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