Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a spirited (and spirituous) dinner party at London's glossy Dorchester Hotel, and a private lampooning edition of the Daily Express, devoted entirely to "Chris." From Express Owner Lord Beaverbrook, now busy with Britain's postwar air problems, came this message: "As long as you remain editor you will have . . . the happiest proprietor...
When he took the job, he said his goal was to increase Express circulation (then 1,700,000) by one million in ten years. He almost did it in five. Were it not for wartime paper shortages, Express circulation (now 2,800,000) would be much larger. When English publications were granted 10% more paper several weeks ago, Express circulation shot up 250,000 almost overnight...
Nightly in the "reporters' room"-frenzied and cluttered with teletypes, telephones, stale sandwiches, cups of tea, personalities, smoke, temperament, bitter grins and rush-he helps build the next day's Express. With a talent unrivaled in Fleet Street, he picks out of heaps of copy the stories that fit his line, plays them for all they are worth, with a fine disregard for what his staider competitors...
...Express is no scandal sheet, but Arthur Christiansen's brand of journalism has a distinctly yellow hue. There is nothing in the U.S. quite comparable to it. In appearance and content it is more like the Hearst papers than anything else-copiously illustrated, splashy with black headlines, trickily laid...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...