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Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Sunday Express of London is one of Britain's most popular papers. One reason: Nathaniel Gubbins, a 50-year-old, pink-faced fellow who looks like a shy insurance agent whose feet hurt. Nathaniel (real name: Norman) Gubbins is a columnist...
...Cockney. Nathaniel Gubbins says of himself: "I am an English Cockney." He got his first job in the Daily Express library, filing clippings. After World War I he was rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account...
Gubbins' ability to reduce wartime annoyances to absurdity and make Britons chuckle at themselves and their annoyers is the peg on which hangs his success. Last week, counting an average of three readers for each copy of the Sunday Express sold, lugubrious Nathaniel Gubbins had an audience of almost...
Production of all kinds of manufactured goods including non-war essentials, as well as materials needed for national defense, has reached a point which may stand as an industrial output record for years, according to John Henry Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...Workshop staff began to crumple. After a while it consisted of only one man, Nathaniel P. Lauriat '43. Unable to afford the time needed to nurse the ailing organization, Lauriat turned it over to the Network's dramatics director. Harold C. Fleming '44. Harvard's two radio organizations were finally combined...