Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations." Lord Boothby: "I know of no more vivid pictures of the kaleidoscopic American scene than those painted by Don Iddon." Sir Alan Herbert: "I like . . . Don Iddon who paints with such gusto the best pictures of the States." The Duchess of Argyll: "The special articles in the Daily Mail have a very wide appeal, especially those by Don Iddon who writes so perspicaciously about America...
WORLD SCOOP, blared a Page One banner headline announcing Mailman Noel Barber's series on "a war nobody knows about." To gather the "whole wicked story" in Tibet, Barber (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with four Sherpa guides and 40 coolies, who carried their six tents, snow boots, whisky, double-lined sleeping bags, tinned food, drugs and 4,000 French cigarettes. For serious Tibet experts, Barber's panting prose about the guerrilla warfare between Chinese Communists and Tibetan warriors brought guffaws. But then Adventurer...
...FOUGHT THE COLD LYING IN MY HUSBAND'S ARMS. When she awoke shivering and wet, Rosemary told Mail readers: "I stood up in the boat and stripped to change. The others were a few feet from me, but it didn't matter a damn...
Small World's landing came as a relief to Mail editors. They had touted the balloon flight as the Kon-Tiki voyage of the air, then began to downplay it when the balloon Small World was unreported for three weeks. When reports of the voyage's success reached London, the Mail changed its type face, said Small World's success was "certainly anticipated," roared "we take responsibility for it." In Barbados Mail reporters took command. The Mail had bought all but American rights to the story...
...week's end, in a burst of judgment, the Mail decided the British recognition of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary government in Cuba was Page One fare. But by then, many a Mail reader cared little for such trivia, hurriedly turned to inside pages in search of the balloon girl and Reporter Barber in Tibet...