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After his eldest son was killed in World War I, Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), late proprietor of the sensational London Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first...
...Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later sat on the committee that elected Rostow to the Harmsworth post...
Gloomy Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, found her delightful. After he divorced his first wife, she became his weekend party hostess at Mereworth Castle in Kent...
...preparing last week to teach U.S. history at Oxford. He is tall, blue-eyed Thomas Jefferson ("The Colonel") Wertenbaker, Princeton's Edwards Professor of American History (The Founding of American Civilization). Princeton announced last week that he would shortly leave to fill Oxford's Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair...
...House supported the Home Minister. One Member even asked whether the Mirror was partly owned by William Randolph Hearst. (Since Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, gave up control in 1931, the Mirror's ownership has not been a matter of public record, but tall, energetic Cecil Harmsworth King, nephew of Lord Northcliffe, is generally supposed to control it. Hearst...