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...princess's bad press was not sweetened by her husband's new job as artistic adviser on the Sunday Times (TIME, Jan. 26), where he was humbly greeted at the door on his first day last week by Owner Roy Thomson and Editor C. D. Hamilton. Newspaper cartoonists had a field day at the expense of their new colleague. One caricature showed the cover of Tony's magazine filled with saccharine shots of Margaret At Home; another pictured a housewife asking her news agent: "Which paper has the Tony...
Gene, on one of these many spectacular windups, set up the team's second goal at 17:20 of the first period when he shot a last-second pass to Bill Beckett, who scored. Defenseman Ron Thomson netted the third goal by stealing the puck in the center zone and shooting from inside the blue line...
Even while pleading the impropriety of Margaret's spouse's becoming a newsman, the Observer could not hide its jealousy. "It will inevitably seem unfair to rival newspapers and magazines that the Queen's close relative is used for the enrichment of the Thomson empire...
Jungle Screams. Although no other paper felt quite so strongly, few but Thomson's Sunday Times, which had Tony in the bag, could resist sounding off. The London Daily Sketch puckered with a mild case of sour grapes: "Lord Snowdon sharpens his artistic genius for readers of the Sunday Times." Cassandra (William Connor), London Daily Mirror columnist, was moved by amusement: "Now Tony Snowdon, as the Observer calls him [to Cassandra, Tony was 'a royal Dicky-bird'], has flown from Kensington Palace to the jungle that is Fleet Street. In a trice, the macaws, the parrots...
Amid the general chorus of disapproval (including the charge that Thomson wanted to use Tony to land a peerage), a few mild voices rose: "The Mirror hopes Mr. Jones will stick to his job." If he didn't, added the Mirror slyly, Tony was more than welcome on the Mirror's staff-"at considerably less money...