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...annuals, a racing daily and two newspapers-the Sunday People (circ. 5,467,872) and the Daily Herald, a Labor Party voice. Although the Daily Herald's circulation is 1,418,119 it manages to lose about $2,000,000 a year. Last month Fleet Street's Canadian-born Press Lord Roy Thomson, 66, proprietor of 80 papers in seven countries, made an offer to Odhams' board, headed by Sir Christopher Chancellor, longtime (1944-59) general manager of Reuters Ltd., the British press service. Thomson's proposal: an equitable stock exchange that would in effect merge...
...were the very weak and the very strong. The weak simply gave up; the strong overtaxed themselves in trying to save all. One man was brought back from a hunt with his eyelids frozen tight; he was so badly frostbitten that his fingers and feet fell off. Dependable Canadian-born Sergeant George Rice died of exhaustion in a three-day blizzard...
When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...
...renowned for his eccentricity as for his talent, Canadian-born Concert Pianist Glenn Gould, 28, often bundles up against the cold in mid-August. One day a year ago, as Gould tells it, he was sitting in the Manhattan offices of Steinway & Sons when William Hupfer, Steinway's chief technician, strode in overflowing with a he-man heartiness usually reserved for college reunions. On previous occasions, according to Gould, Hupfer had subjected him to "unduly strong handshakes and other demonstrative physical acts." This time, Gould claims, Hupfer approached him from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down...
Died. Mack Sennett (real name: Michael Sinnott), 76, impresario of frantic antics on the silent screen; of a heart attack; in Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, near Hollywood. Canadian-born Sennett started moviemaking under famed D. W. Griffith in 1910, quickly became Sultan of Slapstick, directing Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bathing Beauties Gloria Swanson and Carole Lombard, Keystone Cops Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle...