Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, for the benefit of the London Daily Mail Isaac Foot indulged in some reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family...
Hearty Sir Hugh promptly struck back in a letter to the Daily Mail's editor...
Astronaut. By next day, editors around the world had showered Moscow correspondents with their own rockets (correspondents' term for inquiries about competitors' stories). France-Soir and London's Daily Mail both ran Page One drawings of the compleat astronaut in space suit, breathing gear and seat belt. Said one query: "Like interview and first-person impressions." Demanded another: "Competition says it's woman, not man. Confirm...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...
...elder Insull was jailed in Turkey while, awaiting deportation to the U.S. for trial, and again for a week in Cook County while his son raised $200,000 bail. But he was found innocent of all charges: mail fraud, embezzlement, and violation of the bankruptcy laws...