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...Prince's easy wit was still shipshape that afternoon when his red helicopter dropped out of a gray sky into the grimy valley town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He had come to dedicate the $11 million Prince Charles Hospital, a 362-bed facility that some valley residents fear will shut down local hospitals. "Not to worry," said Charles, striding up to a sign-carrying demonstrator. "We have to put this hospital somewhere." Plowing along a line of well-wishers, he joked with a mother of six children ("You're going to heavily populate the pediatrics ward"), then moved inside...
...calcium deficiency to increase from 13% of the primary school population to 34%. Some school administrators announced that they would pay for free milk out of local property taxes, but Mrs. Thatcher put through a bill making this illegal. Even then, the poor Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil went on distributing free milk because, as School Councilor Bryn Watkins said, "we know all about malnutrition, rickets and TB here." That revolt ended when local officials were notified that they would be personally liable for the milk bills of $5,200 a term...
Victorian Creed. Thomson's entry into the big time marked the retirement of one of the grand old peers of British journalism-James Berry, Viscount Kemsley, 75, who, with his brother William (later Viscount Camrose), came out of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, at the turn of the century, launched Advertising World in 1901, began building a chain that eventually reached a maximum circulation of 24 million (1947). Once called "the greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," Kemsley nevertheless paid close attention to editorial matters, followed a Victorian creed: "I have no intention of competing for circulation by appealing...
...grimy Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, William Ewert Berry won first prize in an essay contest. Across the top of his essay the newsman-judge scrawled: "This competitor should enter journalism." He did; now, as Viscount Camrose, he is one of the greatest, and the most gentlemanly, of British press lords. Because he dislikes publicity, he is also the least known. Viscount Camrose, 73, and his younger (69) brother, Viscount Kemsley, owner of Britain's biggest chain of newspapers, control more newspapers and magazines than any other publishing family in the world. Last week in his annual report...
Camrose started learning the fine details on the Merthyr Tydfil paper, moved to Fleet Street when he was 19. He spent several years going from job to job, smilingly explains: "I was sacked from two-I think I was just too indolent.'' On $500, he started a magazine of his own called Advertising World. It was a success from the first issue, and Camrose sent for his brother Gomer, to join him. Shortly after, Camrose (who had been an amateur boxer) started Boxing. Soon he and his brother were putting out such specialized magazines wherever they spotted potential...