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...Sorry, Sir." In addition to his other Glasgow acquisitions, the Sunday Mail and the Evening News ("This is mainly an experiment-we don't know much about evening papers"), King made a deal to have the huge Kemsley plant in Manchester print 1,000,000 copies of the Mirror and 1,500,000 copies of the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255). "We've been under a handicap," explained King, "by printing only in London while others have printed in both London and Manchester. We have had to close out our northern copies early...
Died. William Ewert Berry, first Viscount Camrose, 74, editor in chief and chairman of the Daily Telegraph, largest of Britain's prestige dailies; of a heart attack; in Southampton, England. Welshman Berry and his brother, now Viscount Kemsley, built the world's largest one-family publishing empire (32 newspapers and 74 magazines...
...laws that they hastily retract stories when threatened with a libel suit. Last week Fleet Streeters saluted one scrappy British newshen who gave British newspapers a lesson in the importance of standing behind the stories they print. In court, Feature Writer Honor Tracy, 38, won a case against Lord Kemsley's Sunday Times* (circ. 531,566) after the paper settled a libel suit before trial and printed an apology for an article she had written. The Sunday Times apology, she charged, sold her "down the river" by implying that she was an "irresponsible journalist prepared to write articles recklessly...
After a 28-year stint, Detective Fabian left the Yard in 1949 with some 40 commendations, including the King's Medal for defusing an Irish Republican Army bomb in Piccadilly. Nowadays, he keeps busier than ever as a crime feature writer for the Kemsley newspapers. Looking back over his career, Fabian concludes that most crooks are not too bright. But one, he admits, outwitted him. This was the fellow who squeezed into an eight-inch-wide opening between the back of the kennels and the outside wall at London's White City dog track; he stayed there nearly...
...Rothermere, 54, it was a step up from being a big press lord to becoming a very big one. For Kemsley it was a retreat to the provinces, where he still owns 31 newspapers. By buying the Graphic for an undisclosed amount, Rothermere gets a free hand to do what he wants with the paper, may drop as many as 1,000 staffers from the Graphic's payroll. With the Graphic in hand, Lord Rothermere can wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ...