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...publisher ever seemed more secure in his job than Cecil Harmsworth King, the chairman of Britain's International Publishing Corporation. He took charge of Britain's biggest publishing empire in 1951 and ruled it completely; his personality radiated confidence. At 67, he is a strapping 6 ft. 4 in., weighs over 200 Ibs., and combines a corrosive wit with an air of disdain for all the lesser creatures. Few publishers anywhere would have felt sure enough of themselves to say of their leading paper, as King said of the London Daily Mirror: "You can't publish...
...newspapers may also be unreliable because they do not test a true random sample but measure a floating population on street corners and in bars, tending to overlook housewives, elderly people and stay-at-homes. The best polls are those conducted by established, well-known polling organizations that regularly publish results. Even these may be suspect if the sample was less than 1,000, the question is unstated, and the poll was taken more than two weeks before publication...
Ormsby Gore turned up frequently on Hyannis Port weekends, at Bobby's Hickory Hill seminars and often in White House inner sanctums. He was beside Kennedy in the Situation Room when the President won his terms on the limited test-ban treaty, urged Kennedy to publish photographic proof of the Cuban missile buildup and persuaded him, over Navy objections, to order a delay in intercepting Russian ships, thereby avoiding a direct confrontation with the Soviets. "It was a freak of history," he says of his influence then. "Those years proved to be the most rewarding of my life." They...
...entire Harvard printing plant moved in with the English students. Harvard apparently justified the transfer of the press on the grounds that they were about to publish John Eliot's translation of the Bible into Algonquin. (The Eliot translation of the Bible--Mamusse Wunneetupana-tamwe Up-Biblum God--came out in 1663. Scholars are not sure there were any Indians who could have understood...
Worse, from Mrs. Kennedy's view, was soon to come. A syndicated Washington columnist burst into print with the report that Annemarie was 1) making a pilot film for TV, 2) planning to open a gourmet club in a Manhattan townhouse, and 3) about to publish a cookbook. The column also reported that, presumably because of Annemarie's dietary meals, Jackie had slimmed down from a size 12 to a size 8 dress...