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...Associated Newspapers Group, Ltd., founded by his uncle Lord Northcliffe and his father; in London. After serving a decade as a Conservative M.P., Rothermere took over the family newspapers and remained a strong force in British journalism until he handed over control in 1971 to his son Vere Harmsworth (now also the chairman of Esquire magazine). Though Rothermere's ultra-Tory Daily Mail trails the late Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, it has a circulation of 1.9 million and stays well in the black...
...estimated $5 million, the prodigal-along with his former New York designer Milton Glaser and Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers Group Ltd. (London's Daily Mail, Evening News and 42 smaller British papers) -will buy the 44-year-old monthly from its highly diversified parent, Esquire Inc. Glaser will become design director, Felker editor in chief as well as the chief executive of the magazine company; Harmsworth will be chairman...
...Winklesque lead time (the January issue is now in preparation) and doubling the magazine's frequency. Felker, 51, is tight-lipped about what else may mark his reign, but emphatic about what will not. Still smarting from his takeover by Murdoch, he has worked out an agreement with Harmsworth, whose firm is putting up most of the purchase price, that he will not be removed while Esquire is successful. Vows he: "What happened with New York will never happen again...
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, first (and only) Viscount Northcliffe, was indubitably the First Press Lord of Britain. Northcliffe's Daily Mail was the first 1,000,000-circulation newspaper. He founded the Daily Mirror, which at 4.3 million is still the world's largest English-language daily. He owned the Times, the Observer, not to mention what was then the world's largest magazine-publishing business. By the end of World War I, he considered himself important enough to make a virtual takeover bid for the Lloyd George administration, proposing to the Prime Minister that...
...publisher ever seemed more secure in his job than Cecil Harmsworth King, the chairman of Britain's International Publishing Corporation. He took charge of Britain's biggest publishing empire in 1951 and ruled it completely; his personality radiated confidence. At 67, he is a strapping 6 ft. 4 in., weighs over 200 Ibs., and combines a corrosive wit with an air of disdain for all the lesser creatures. Few publishers anywhere would have felt sure enough of themselves to say of their leading paper, as King said of the London Daily Mirror: "You can't publish...