Word: beaverbrook
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...Stay at Home . . ." Led by MGM's Sam Eckman, nine member companies of the Motion Picture Association of America last month withdrew their display advertisements from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and Sunday Express. "We're not going to spend another goddam penny," an Express official was told, "until you change your critics." Chief target was the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman, who recently joshed the plot of Affair in Trinidad (which contains some schemers fiddling with the V-2 rocket): "Launched from bases in the Caribbean, [the V2] could destroy most of the major centers...
...Marshal Tito's proposed state visit to London next March was Novelist Evelyn Waugh. As a Roman Catholic and a British officer who served with Tito's partisans in World War II, Waugh felt outraged. "OUR GUEST OF DISHONOR" was the headline over his protest in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express...
...cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard, David Low was often called the world's best political cartoonist. Socialist Low throve on cartooning for a Tory paper, at times sharply caricatured both his boss, .the Beaver, and the Conservative government. Three years ago, Low moved his cartoons to a paper closer to his own political views. He switched from the Standard to the dull, doctrinaire Daily Herald, official organ of the Labor party. Instead of pepping up the Herald as he was supposed to do, the Herald-and the fact that Labor was in power-seemed...
...point in the campaign, a London Times reporter in the U.S. was filing such obviously slanted pro-Stevenson copy that the paper's editors sent "corrective guidance" to its correspondent. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard printed a dispatch from Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt, headlined I TIP STEVENSON TO WIN, which said that "hysteria about Communism is making a dent in America's claim to call herself a democracy." On election eve, the London Daily Graphic's Frank Oliver cabled his paper: "I believe Governor Stevenson will...
...London, the drunken sailors became "our boys." In a savage little cartoon, Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard revived memories of vicious Japs in World...