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by PAUL FERRIS 340 pages. World. $10.
Novelist-Reporter Paul Ferris, who started on a Northcliffe paper in Wales, respects his subject-as any newspaperman should. Northcliffe had "the arrogance of the natural journalist, that what interested him would interest his readers." That he made millions proving it was incidental. After the Wright Brothers' first European...
Northcliffe's topics were a throwback to his first publication, the weekly Answers, which consisted of replies to questions-sometimes invented by the editor-on how tall Gladstone was (5 ft. 9 in.), or how many M.P.s had glass eyes (three). A touch of Answers lingered in all his...
How long Northcliffe had been going mad, and why exactly, no one knows. "The effect of illness was to coarsen his personality by letting its wilder elements escape," Ferris notes. Messages to his editors grew wilder. He traveled incessantly: Australia, Japan, India, back to France. There Northcliffe discovered that an...
In his Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard, Lowes Dickinson inquired "Is immortality desirable?" Ferris Greenslet, a biographer of the Lowells, has stated that he almost thought it was, if only to get at the truth of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.