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Only a few years after slavery had been prohibited in the Nebraska Territory and with the pony express yet to be replaced by the overland telegraph, Roscoe Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. His father was a judge; his mother, an amateur botanist...
...wartime Prime Minister came to the U.S. last year for a rest and his Fulton speech, he told inquirers that he might not write his memoirs, but would leave the raw material to his heirs. Last fall Viscount Camrose, his old friend and publisher of the London Daily Telegraph (see below), sailed for the U.S., ostensibly to enjoy the Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage, but actually on a mission that not even his staffers knew about: he had come to tell prospective U.S. bidders that Churchill had changed his mind. Camrose himself has the Empire rights to the memoirs...
From the charwomen to the foreign correspondents, everybody who works for the London Daily Telegraph got a jubilant mimeographed note from the boss, and an extra week's pay. Viscount Camrose had reason to celebrate: the sickly (circ. 80,000) daily he had bought into in 1928 had reached a healthy 1,001,047. A front-page box proclaimed: "This is the first time in the newspaper history of the world that any quality newspaper has achieved a million sale...
...choked off newsprint, Lord Camrose might have got there four years ago. He sacrificed circulation to stay at six pages during the war (and also to make more money on his columns of classified ads, said Fleet Streeters). His Telegraph won success by copybook rules: saving its money and adopting honesty as the best news policy. Readers generally find the Telegraph's stodgy Tory editorials almost unreadable, but, more important, they also get great grey blobs of news unslanted and in plentiful supply. The Telegraph is an outstanding example of responsible journalism in an era of crisis and confusion...
Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...