Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MELBOURNE (432 pp.) - Lord David Cecil-Charter Books...
...Having given you some idea of our progress," said Cecil Harmsworth King, "I would like to digress." Then, before the annual meeting of stockholders in London last week, the proprietor of the world's largest publishing house, the Mirror Group (London Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, plus 220 other periodicals), took a telling swipe at freedom of the press-British style. Said King...
...Personally, I think this drastic curtailment of the liberty of our press is against the public interest. This country is too smug, complacent and sluggish, and pointed criticism might do much to get us moving again." Added Cecil King, whose giant Daily Mirror (circ. 4,561,876), biggest newspaper in the Western world, stands as impressive evidence that he knows what Britons want to read: "But if, on consideration, the British public wants this censorship, of the press, at least they should realize how much of what they should know is not printed...
...Diego County School Superintendent Cecil Hardesty, 55, an able but colorless middle-of-the-roader who based his campaign on experience and a nonpartisan approach to the state's education problems, received the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner...
...that the newspaper hatchet men sent to Pecos are instructed to find and write any fictitious or fabulous story, without regard to its truthfulness . . One cheerful thought is that Pecos will continue growing lovelier with the years, long after the mountebanks and charlatans of the press have departed." Mayor Cecil Coth-run himself wrote a poem about Billie Sol and contributed it to the News...