Word: cruikshank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says the London News Chronicle's veteran editor Robin Cruikshank: "Agar probably contributed more towards a good understanding of America in England than any other man in history, and was the best counter-agent to Hollywood...
...imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...
...Cruikshank, a Fleet Streeter since his teens, was the News Chronicle's U.S. correspondent for eight prewar years, then returned to edit the Cadburys' evening Star (which, with its morning sister, is known as the "Cocoa Press"). In 1941 Brendan Bracken drafted him to head the American Division of the Ministry of Information...
Roaring Century. When he became a director of both papers last summer, Robin Cruikshank began an idle perusal of the 1846 file of the Daily News, intending to write a centenary leader for last week. He soon became convinced that 1846, the paper's first year, was, for England, as Bernard DeVoto had found it to be for the U.S., a "Year of Decision." The article grew into a forthcoming book (Roaring Century...
...then be absorbed into the Foreign Office. But last week, with its major tasks finished, two of its brightest stars departed. Minister Bracken, 44, a Churchillian favorite, whose unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...