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...stewards lugged the plaque back to the clubhouse, and for all the thousands of words which have been printed about it before and since, relatively few people know what the much disputed Harmsworth Trophy looks like...
...decline. Understandable is the anxiety which many a Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still unknown. The Public Health Service has begun field work at Independence, Mo., where 50 cases of encephalitis were last fortnight reported. -ED. "Cheap Bronze Plaque" Sirs: -Harmsworth Cup. . . . There is always one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. . . ." (TIME, Sept. 11). Let TIME'S sport reviewer note on his diary for September next year that the British International Trophy for Motorboats is commonly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, not Harmsworth Cup. The emblem of speed...
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...
...weeks ago Esmond Harmsworth (of the Mail) cabled Lord Beaverbrook, then returning from Africa, that the battle of gifts had broken all bounds of sanity; the Mail would welcome peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve...
...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...