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...friendly windup to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's mission to Moscow attended the dispatch of Soviet notes to the Western Big Three and West Germany on these chief problems of the cold...
Last week her skill in attracting readers-both male and female-catapulted Columnist Edwards, 48, into the top woman's job in British journalism: assistant editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch (circ. 1,834,859). The Sunday Dispatch won Anne away from Beaverbrook with the fanciest offer ever made an English newswoman, including a pale blue car, an endowment policy that will put away some of her salary tax-free for old age, a fat expense account, and well over $20,000 a year...
...scramble has come a golden chance for British newswomen to feather their nests as never before. Old hands for new jobs: chic, leggy (5 ft. 111n., 130 Ibs.) Anne Scott-James, 44, who left the Sunday Dispatch fortnight ago to fill the specially created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial...
...book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, What We Must Know About Communism (Norton; $3.95). Once or twice he phoned the office for a check on things. In the State Department one day, while Dillon was presiding over a morning conference, a secretary sent in a United Press International dispatch...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...