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From Britain: Few Americans know the U.S. as well as shy, crinkly-haired Robin J. Cruikshank, one of London's ablest journalists (he is a director of the Liberal News Chronicle). Few Britons, in & out of Government, are as devoted to fostering better Anglo-American relations. Six-footer Cruikshank, the News Chronicle's U.S. correspondent from 1928 to 1936, was one of the few British newsmen who gave the U.S. serious coverage, did not write about it as if it were an extension of Coney Island peopled mostly by tycoons, cinema cutups and political crackpots. He married...
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...