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...Thus the sin-and-crime-loving London Daily Mirror tops 4,000,000 copies a day, while the respected Manchester Guardian sells a mere 160,000 and the famed London Times only 280,000. One happy exception to the rule is Viscount Camrose's London Daily Telegraph, whose circulation of 981,566 makes it the world's largest quality newspaper. Most of the Telegraph's readers on both sides of the Atlantic (it has 600 U.S. subscribers) consider its all-round news coverage about the best in Britain...
Lord Camrose, 70, whose empire also includes 41 periodicals,* keeps a sharp eye on his paper. But for 25 years, Editor Arthur Ernest Watson, a quiet-spoken man who insists on crisp, accurate writing, has made most of the day-to-day journalistic judgments at the outspokenly Tory Telegraph. Not long after Watson moved into the editor's chair, the Telegraph had only 84,000 readers; in 1947, its circulation hit 1,000,000. (Later, in the postwar newsprint shortage, the Telegraph made a voluntary circulation cut of 100,000, has been moving steadily back toward the million mark...
Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
...made," the public is told. The Soviet Sculptors' Trust informs collective farm and union centers that it "has ready a sculpture of Lenin by D. P. Schwartz, 2 meters 25 cm. high, made of concrete. Price 3,500 rubles ($875); time of delivery, 2-3 months. For orders, telegraph Moscow Skulpcombinat...
Lowered Flags. Within a few hours Canada's capital was in mourning for Laurence Steinhardt, one of the ablest and most popular ambassadors the U.S. had ever sent abroad. All over the city (except at the Soviet embassy) flags flew at half-staff. Telegraph companies hired extra messengers to deliver the stacks of telegrams. At the U.S. embassy, a second receptionist was assigned to receive the crowds that came to pay respects...