Word: willmott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, the wise and witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
...knighthood for explaining Britain to Americans. He never took his official honor too seriously, or his titles of "unofficial ambassador" and "dean of correspondents." When a friend asked what it meant to be a knight, he boomed: "Well, I'll tell you, old boy. Willmott Lewis used to fetch $250 per lecture. Sir Willmott Lewis gets...
...many years, British journalists had considered an assignment to the U.S.-the "sphere of the fabulous"-as the uttermost exile. Willmott Lewis did more than any other man to make it a prize. Working a little above and behind the area of spot news, he aimed at "discovering American policy." To that kind of job he brought sound scholarship, a facile tongue, a pen that turned out discursive and thoughtful prose, ideal for London's "Thunderer." He became friendly, but never too friendly, with men who made U.S. history, a subject he knew well enough to assess them against...
...London Times's Sir Willmott Lewis described him as "an unbiased writer with a good journalistic reputation." Warren B. Francis of the Los Angeles Times said he had never heard O'Donnell support Naziism...