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Fine Details. But Camrose's own favorite publication is not a magazine; it is his London Daily Telegraph, his only newspaper, which is run as a separate corporation. He picked it up when it was floundering with a circulation of only 84,000, built it up until it rivals the London Times in prestige, dwarfs it in circulation (970,900 v. 233,091). Sharply edited and crisply written, the Telegraph is as free of sex and sensation as the court circular, shows Camrose's liking for the unadorned fact. The Telegraph is not given to causes or crusades...
From his suite of offices high in the Telegraph building on Fleet Street, Camrose keeps a close watch on his empire, an even closer watch on the Telegraph. On his 742-ton yacht he has a ship-to-shore phone, often calls staffers in the middle of the night; in his country home he has a teleprinter that keeps him in direct contact with the paper so "that I can watch the fine details, the way leaders are written, or the way type...
When they bought the Telegraph in 1928. the Daily Mail's Lord Rothermere (brother of the titanic Northcliffe but no journalist himself) got worried. He poured millions into founding and promoting new provincial papers to fight Camrose and Kemsley. Camrose, whose formula for journalistic success is to "spend money and spend it boldly," opened his purse also. Finally, when a truce was declared, Camrose and his brother were...
Split Up. In 1937, the brothers split their holdings: Camrose took the magazines and the Telegraph, Kemsley held on to all the other 31 newspapers. Kemsley's dailies, with a circulation of 3.300,000, still account for almost half Britain's total provincial readership, while his Sunday Times, famed for its cultural sections, and his Daily Graphic, appealing to vulgar or common-man tastes, give him a circulation of 1,300,000 in London...
...Have to Be Mean . . ." There was an unladylike grimness about Maureen's playing that shocked most proper Britons into grudging admiration-and a keen wish to see her roundly trounced. Cried London's Daily Telegraph: "The big thrill the center court crowd so eagerly awaits . . . the defeat of the 17-year-old, much-vaunted American champion ... is still to come." Teach snorted scornfully in reply: "She's out to kill them. You have to be mean to be a champion. How can you lick someone if you feel friendly toward them...