Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mister General...
...Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man (TIME...
...Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
...even gaudier Sunday Pictorial (5,000,000) almost 70% since war's end, many a Fleet Streeter thought he had tried to tackle too much. The Mirror has bought paper mills in Canada, a string of newspapers in Africa and Australia and a chain of Australian radio stations. Mister Bart had also started a labor weekly, Public Opinion, to challenge the left-wing New Statesman and Nation and Bevanite London Tribune. Public Opinion folded, and the Mirror also lost on some of the other ventures: Mister Bart's close friendship with Labor Foreign Minister Herbert...
...succeed Mister Bart, Mirror directors named 51-year-old Cecil Harmsworth King,* a veteran newsman who has been everything on the paper from junior reporter to picture boss and advertising director. Oxford-educated Chairman King is no socialist, but no Tory either. He was one of Mister Bart's chief executives in the mid-30's when the Mirror swung from a right-wing position into the socialist camp. But now a new swing is starting. Said King: "There'll be no change noticeably in either the layout or the politics of the paper. But the Mirror...