Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Thames River, the underdog Cambridge crew caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
...ambitious, grasping newspaperman. He called it Portrait of a Successful Man. Nobody who knew William Francis Casey thought it was in the least autobiographical. Last week success went out of its way to settle on Casey. After 35 faithful years on the staff, he became editor of the London Times, which makes him a kind of pope of Britain's press...
Clem Attlee waved his honorary union card and assured the grinning pressmen: "It's O.K." Then the Prime Minister pushed a little button, and the presses at Odhams' , started to roll. The London Daily Herald (circ. 2,131,824), British Labor's official newspaper, was 10,000 issues...
...very few stories of sex and adventure but more than ardent Laborites think it should; it also prints more stories about Labor and the trade unions than readers of the rival Daily Mail and Express want to labor through. Though duller than its Fleet Street rivals, the Herald is London's third largest daily paper, and the only one which steadily supports Labor...
...fortnight, Herald circulation zoomed from 250,000 to 1,000,000. Elias' giveaway offers of pots & pans, washing machines and the complete works of Charles Dickens started the most insanely expensive circulation war that Britain had ever seen. In 1933, the Herald was the first London daily to hit the two-million mark...