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...earshot was an executive of the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group who knew big news when he heard it; he hustled the word back to the ears of his board chairman. This week, barely a month after he got the message, hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), baby-faced Cecil Harmsworth King, 57, bought control of Amalgamated for a bid in excess of $45 million, thereby became ruler of the world's most widespread press empire...
Finley's election to the George Eastman Profession ship was made last July, said Aydelotte, "on the basis of his being the leading man in his field." Thus, Finley will hold one of the two positions at Oxford given to American citizens, the other being the Harmsworth seat. His period of election lasts from October 1, 1954, until September, 1955, and presents the Corporation with the problem of finding a temporary replacement for him as master of Eliot House. In addition, Humanities 2 will need a new lecturer...
...succeed Mister Bart, Mirror directors named 51-year-old Cecil Harmsworth King,* a veteran newsman who has been everything on the paper from junior reporter to picture boss and advertising director. Oxford-educated Chairman King is no socialist, but no Tory either. He was one of Mister Bart's chief executives in the mid-30's when the Mirror swung from a right-wing position into the socialist camp. But now a new swing is starting. Said King: "There'll be no change noticeably in either the layout or the politics of the paper. But the Mirror...
...Nephew of the late great Lord Northcliffe (whose name was Harmsworth...
With Designer Jones out of action with a broken hand, Sayres turned the wheel over to steely little Lou Fageol (rhymes with gauge all). Lou, 43, a racedriver since 1928, had never competed for the Harmsworth, but in the first of two 40-mile heats he hit the starting line almost at the crack of the gun, was never headed. Slo-Mo-Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun...