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Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a ?1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London...
...modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made Berry rich and helped earn him a knighthood. Editor was husky 43-year-old John Hammerton...
...back on the streets of London after a lapse of 20 years. Publisher was William Ewert Berry, now Lord Camrose, proprietor of a mammoth chain of newspapers (including the Daily Telegraph), and one of Britain's fabulous press peers.† Its editor was 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton (knighted in 1932), greyhaired but husky as ever...
...photography of 1914 is the technical brilliance of war pictures in the new Illustrated. Its 32 pages show British anti-aircraft guns and planes waiting for German raiders, Britons scurrying into air-raid shelters, their children evacuating London while German armies overrun Poland. Most of Sir John Hammerton's scenes of actual war in progress came to him from the enemy's Ministry for Propaganda, by way of the neutral Netherlands and Scandinavia. He had no immediate plans for sending his own cameramen to the front...
Tickled pink was London's 81-year-old Lord Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, when he won his match (against 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton) in the annual Church v. Press golf tourney, was presented with an initialed golf bag. Bishop Ingram rose to the occasion, drove straight, kept out of bunkers, where he uses "the most awful language...