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...essay the newsman-judge scrawled: "This competitor should enter journalism." He did; now, as Viscount Camrose, he is one of the greatest, and the most gentlemanly, of British press lords. Because he dislikes publicity, he is also the least known. Viscount Camrose, 73, and his younger (69) brother, Viscount Kemsley, owner of Britain's biggest chain of newspapers, control more newspapers and magazines than any other publishing family in the world. Last week in his annual report to stockholders, Lord Camrose totted up exactly how far he had gone since he first entered British journalism...
...Sunday Times,* began adding papers in the provinces. Eleven years later they picked up the huge Amalgamated Press and its 70-odd magazines from the estate of the late great Lord Northcliffe (TIME, May 19) who had gone mad before he died. With Camrose as editorial boss and Kemsley, once described as the "greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," raising money and managing the finances, they continued to expand, buying and merging provincial papers that had been killing each other off with competition. Before long they had 25 papers in their chain...
London's Fleet Street produced its own spot of news: Lord Rothermere, 53, publisher of the Daily Mail, the Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch, filed a divorce petition against Lady Rothermere, 38, who did not contest. The corespondent: Ian Fleming, 42, foreign manager of the Kemsley newspapers...
...brother, Viscount Kemsley, 66, publishes 42 dailies and weeklies...
...week's end, War Minister Strachey seemed content to rest on his own and Downing Street's denials. But Lord Kemsley, an innocent bystander in the whole Strachey business, sued the Tribune for libel in calling the Standard's actions "lower than Kemsley...