Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commandos, were being held in readiness barely 100 miles from the strategic Iraqi city of Mosul, and Bedouin tribes along the frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power in Baghdad...
...world's largest newspaper audience of readers under 35 years: some 1,500,000. But in recent months, the Mirror has begun to wonder if, so far as its youthful readers are concerned, it might not have some hardening of the arteries. To Mirror Proprietor Cecil Harmsworth King and Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, the recent British elections were the chilling proof...
...even as these brave words were appearing in print, King and Cudlipp were taking stock-and making changes designed to revive the Mirror's appeal to youth. Out last week went the Page One slogan that the Mirror had used for 14 years: "Forward with the People." Out too went the Mirror's concession to middle-aged readers: a serious political column by Labor M.P. Richard Grossman, who, with help from the Mirror's Cudlipp, had also written the scathing but ineffective campaign broadside called "The Tory Swindle." And finally, out went a British newspaper institution...
...Mirror also trotted out the life story of Tommy Steele, England's answer to Elvis Presley, and a series on the "oh-so-quickly Rising Generation." Almost entirely missing from the paper was any mention of politics. "When you've just had an election," said Cecil King, "the course is set for the next five years. Women readers particularly have had a bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying...
Fresh & Incalculable. Author Mattingly, professor of European history at Columbia University, begins his account with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip...