Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
Peter Aitken, 34. auto-racing second son of Lord Beaverbrook (and brother of bemedalled R.A.F. veteran Max Aitken) was fined $42 and given a two months' jail sentence for drunken driving in London...
...come & go, but was this pretty, vivacious, 32-year-old woman about to rewrite a chapter of British news paper history? Her fondest hope had be come common knowledge: to spur her 47-year-old husband's Daily Mail back into the all but lost struggle with Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, and win the top in the mass circulation field...
Lady Rothermere is not always discreet about the things she hears at her private board meetings. Confidential information given Esmond at the Mail office often finds its way about town. But despite these lapses, Lady Rothermere keeps her eye on the main job-building Rothermere into a better Beaverbrook...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express opened the bidding at ?500, dropped out at ?3,000; Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, which finally got it for ?18,000 ($72,000), sold ?16,000 worth of reprint rights to other papers...