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...October 1959, when the Mirror underwent a thorough revamping and made a brassy new pitch to British youth, Chairman Cecil Harmsworth King decided to pension Jane off. "You can't go on being a bright young thing forever," said King, although Jane had made a good start at doing just that. First unveiled-or rather, undraped-on the Mirror's pages in December 1932, at the age of 21, she vanished 27 years later at the same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip...
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., beefy (6 ft. 4 in., more than 250 lbs.) British Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King, whose tabloid London Daily Mirror has the world's largest daily circulation though little else to brag about, offered a disdainful critique of U.S. newspapers: "A lot of little parish magazines . . . with acres of soggy verbiage, cubic miles of repetitious reports, incredibly bad headlines, nonexistent layouts and ludicrous handling of pictures...
...Lord Rothermere and Cecil Harmsworth King are first cousins, both nephews of Lord Northcliffe, an earlier press lord and pioneer in British popular journalism...
Rude Blow. Word of the impending Odhams-Thomson deal came as a rude blow to Cecil Harmsworth King, 60, head of the Daily Mirror group, a gigantic newspaper-magazine combine (total circulation: more than 16 million) that includes two of Britain's leading popular papers: the sex-salted Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial, one of three newspapers that the watchdog Press Council last year called "a disgrace to British journalism." The other two: the People and News of the World...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...