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Morison taught history at Harvard, as an instructor, lecturer and professor, from 1915 to 1955. He was Harold V. Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University...
...city of Nimes, has been famous since the Roman era for its naturally carbonated mineral water, but it took an Englishman, touring France about 60 years ago, to realize its commercial potential. Visiting the spring's owner, Physician Charles Perrier, a young Oxford graduate named Albert St. John Harmsworth* tasted the water, was so inspired that he bought the spring, with a promise that Dr. Perrier's name would be placed on all his bottles. Harmsworth also originated the 12-oz. Indian-club bottle that has become a Perrier trademark and coined its "champagne of table waters" slogan...
...Brother of Alfred Harmsworth, British press lord who founded the Daily Mail and later became Lord Northcliffe; Harold, who took over after Alfred's death and became Lord Rothermere; and Cecil, a onetime Member of Parliament. All are dead...
...Cudlipp, and to burly Cecil Harmsworth King, 62, boss of the huge Mirror Group, it was obvious that the Pictorial needed some juicing up. Not that they wanted to change its pro-Labor politics, or any of the staples that have so long attracted its working-class readers-sports, animals, crime, anti-Establishment articles and lots of sex. But there would have to be more, and the answer was to season the Sex-and-Sensation recipe with a third S-for Significance...
...Dora Harmsworth is frigid, while her husband Malcolm is a great prig. To make up for the lack of physical love, the pair chatter incessantly about love in the abstract...