Word: harmsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combatants. The Mail is the late, great Northcliffe's paper, published since his death by his burly, beefy brother Viscount Rothermere and the latter's son, Esmond Harmsworth. The Mail ("For King & Empire") is stodgy, conservative, has its front page filled with advertising, second & third pages full of financial news. For eleven years it held the largest circulation in the world, well over 1,500,000. Longtime runner-up to the Mail is impish Lord Beaverbrook's Express (until this year, 49% owned by Rothermere). The crusading Express is jazzy, sensational, easily readable, packed with shrill headlines...
There is always at least one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. It was almost a relief to the crowd of 325,000, in boats and grandstands on the banks of the St. Clair River near Marine City, Mich., when the mishap came so early last week. Just before the race, Horace E. Dodge decided to enter his three- year-old Delphine V, rebuilt for a speed of 85 m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine...
Second Race. A stifling day and congested highways let only a skimpy 150,000 get through to the second race, which turned out to be the most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke...
...really expected to win the Harmsworth Cup Hubert Scott-Paine proved last week that he was a better loser than boat-driver. Said he, after the first race: ''The best time of my life . . . the water was beautiful . . . my boat ran up to expectations. . . ." Unlike Kaye Don, whose Miss England III broke down last year in the Harmsworth races, Hubert Scott-Paine has no backer. Like Gar Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away...
Died. Albert St. John Harmsworth, 57, youngest brother of Viscount Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe; in Vergez, France. Paralyzed from the waist down since an automobile accident in 1906. he had invented an electric wheelchair from which to direct his large mineral water business (Perrier) at Vergez. Lord Northcliffe once offered ?100,000 to anyone who could cure his brother, often declared: "He has more brains than all the rest of the Harmsworth family...