Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago the Lascelles boys, with a group of fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the News found its way to the Manchester Daily Express, which sent the story to its London office, which sent a reporter to the War Office...
...number and location of more than one gun, which constituted the publication of an official secret. This was just what the Express needed for a good story of its own. Next day the London papers picked it up. Headlined the Evening Standard: WAR OFFICE BUYS COPY OF THE HAREWOOD NEWS. Below were pictures of the publishers...
Embarrassed, the War Office confiscated copies of the News from libraries, wrote the young men a letter asking them please to be careful...
...Smith & Son. W. H. Smith & Son are not only news agents, but also booksellers, stationers, bookbinders, advertising agents, printers, librarians (with 690 lending libraries) and operators of 1,422 railway and subway bookstalls, 357 shops in London and the provinces. They employ 4,000 bicycling newsboys, operate a fleet of 400 big red trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite...
...Lord Hambleden's company and its satellites in the news agents' association which, without warning, one day announced that TIME would be banned from their newsstands. Rumor had it that Lord