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...London's Dorchester Hotel was crammed with stuffed beavers, scarlet-coated Mounties, feathered Indians, and R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...
...Absentee Owners. As the only daily in a burgeoning town, the News-Press had no lack of hopeful buyers. The Ridder chain, the Los Angeles Times, British Press Lord Roy Thomson were all said to have made bids. McLean overcame Storke's objection to absentee ownership by purchasing the paper for himself, not for the Philadelphia Bulletin Co. He also promised to live in Santa Barbara part of each year, and he has already moved his nephew Stuart Symington Taylor, 50, a cousin of the Missouri Senator, from his job as Bulletin vice president to fulltime publisher...
...into Machines Bull. Now that Callies has been rebuffed, the government may have some difficulty arranging its own solution. It wants to marry Machines Bull to such other French electronics firms as Compagnie Générale de Télégraphic Sans Fil, Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston, and Compagnie Générale d'Electricité, but none of these is anxious to wed a loser. The government, which has covered Machines Bull's obligations for December and January, may have to make the dowry more attractive...
First line forward Mike Thomson of Army cased in a rebound shot at 14:05 for the only score in the first period. He was assisted by Bart Barry...
...same combination of Thomson and Barry scored again in the second period at 12:46, and five minutes later at 17:40 they reversed roles, Barry scoring and Thomson assisting...