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...month later, with Designer Ted Jones at the wheel, Slo-Mo-Shun IV won motor-boating's famed Gold Cup. Last week on the Detroit River Slo-Mo-Shun took the last big prize within reach. It ran away with the international Harmsworth Trophy and, in the doing, pretty well established itself as the greatest speed boat ever built...
Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a ?1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London...
...Teach You. Several publishers of bloods made fortunes on which they built more respectable empires. Young Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) founded the Daily Mail and bought the Times itself with the help of his bloody pennies. Harmsworth and others like him repeated the still popular yellow-press hypocrisy that the aim of a foul story was not to please, but to educate the public; thus, the reader was expected to find a sort of Sermon on the Mount in a discussion of the murder of prostitutes "by mutilation, dismemberment, garrotting, throat-slitting and clubbing." ("I have a small collection...
Died. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham, 78, scholarly, Liberal younger brother of the late Tory Publishers Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere (London Daily Mail), longtime Member of Parliament (1906-22), short-time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1919-22); in London...
...Revolutionary South (The First Americans, The Founding of American Civilisation, etc.) gave U.S. history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...