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...began for Britain's press one day in 1896 when two Harmsworth brothers, sons of an indigent London barrister, started the Daily Mail. First of Britain's great papers for the masses, it made the Harmsworths first of a fabulous line of British press lords. That era definitely ended last week when the younger of the Harmsworth brothers, aged 72, died of dropsy in Bermuda...
...Alfred Harmsworth was 23 when he started his first paper, Answers to Correspondents, a gossipy, amusing weekly journal. It caught on with Britain's masses. Harold Harmsworth was then a 21-year-old postal clerk. Against his better judgment, he let Alfred persuade him to join Answers as business manager. Alfred had the editorial brains, Harold knew shillings & pence. In six years, from their profits, they were able to buy a struggling London daily, the Evening News, and put it on its feet. Then they founded the Daily Mail. In 1917 Alfred was created Viscount Northcliffe, two years later...
...took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with him when he died...
...Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond...
Died. Mary Lilian Share Harmsworth, Lady Rothermere, wife of the London publisher; of cancer of the stomach; near Cannes, France...