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...believe in the hellfire and brim-stone," said Lord Beaverbrook as he tried to engage Fellow Publisher Roy Thomson in a religious discussion. "Well, I'll tell you my idea about that," replied Thomson, who had purchased a newspaper in Edinburgh a few years back. "When I first got to Scotland, a fellow said, 'Are you a Presbyterian?' and I said, 'I am now.' " "Oh my God," groaned Beaverbrook, giving...
...ROBERT THOMSON Seattle...
While New York newspapers struggle with assorted unions for the right to automate in bits and pieces, a new British daily went into operation last week with ultramodern, automatic, labor-and-time-saving techniques in every production area. Started by Lord Thomson of Fleet, 71, who owns 125 newspapers and 105 magazines in Britain, Ireland, Canada, the U.S. and Africa, the Evening Post of Reading makes use of equipment that has been on the market for a few years: computerized type-fitting, phototypesetting and offset printing. But never before has it all been assembled in one newspaper printing plant...
...bare handful of provincial evening papers to be started in Britain in the last three decades. Moreover, it is published in a town that is only 36 miles from London, where there are twelve big dailies. Competitors have their doubts that the experiment will succeed. But Lord Thomson of Fleet has planned with care, and he is confident enough to predict that he will some day be publishing eight new suburban dailies in towns ringing London...
...JAMES C. THOMSON Editor...