Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Distinguished Nuts & Flappers. His task, said Northcliffe, was "to get the old barnacle-covered whale off the rocks and safely into the deep water." He promptly fired George Earle Buckle, editor for 28 years, and put in Geoffrey Dawson, who had been one of the paper's top foreign correspondents. Northcliffe, who seldom worked from the Times office, harried Editor Dawson by phone, cable and mail from watering places all over the Continent. He bombarded his staff of "weaklings" and "dullards" with denunciations and demands, called himself "the Ogre of Fleet Street," and often signed his orders "Lord Vigour...
...every day a "light" leader (e.g., editorial), now the Times's famed and whimsical "fourth leader" (TIME, Dec. 4, 1950). Northcliffe badgered the staff to give the paper a personality, sneaked in the first byline the Times had printed in 137 years. "There should be nothing," he chided Dawson, "like the 'Scottish History Chair at Glasgow,' which is of no interest to the distinguished Nuts and Flappers we are trying to pursue...
Skilled Intriguers. Dissatisfied with Dawson, Northcliffe forced his editor to take "vacations" so he could put over editorial changes the staff was resisting. Northcliffe's likes changed with mercurial swiftness; he helped elect Lloyd George Prime Minister, then opposed him when Lloyd George refused to submit his cabinet appointments for Northcliffe's approval. Lloyd George remarked: "I would as soon go for a Sunday evening stroll around Walton Heath with a grasshopper as try and work with Northcliffe." When Lloyd George was reelected, Northcliffe blamed Editor Dawson for not fighting him vigorously enough...
...road to Hay River in the Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring a new smelter city of 15,000 to the N.W.T. within a decade...
ALCAN INTO ASHCAN read a U.S. newspaper headline six years ago. The U.S. Army, which built the Alaska (Alcan) Highway in nine hard-driving months of 1942, had just turned over to Canada the 1,221 miles from the starting point at Dawson Creek, B.C. to the Alaska border. The headline writer, like most Americans who gave the matter any thought, assumed that the Alcan-like its famed World War II counterparts, the Burma and Ledo Roads-was purely a product of military emergency, with no peacetime future...