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...Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard was not impressed. Truman had "almost a Dewey mustache" and "his eyebrows came out thick and dark ... his white collar looked dirty." The Standard's complacent conclusion: Britain's TV is still the leader in quality...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard thought not. Last week its "Londoner's Diary" complained: "It is now over three weeks since the birth of Princess Elizabeth's son. Only a favored few* know what he looks like or how he is progressing . . . Why this secrecy? The whole world is waiting to know about the baby . . . The palace authorities are ill advised." The Paris press went further; it wondered if there was anything wrong with the health of the baby to warrant such secrecy...
Tallulah has always moved casually among the great and the near-great.* When she was a child in a Washington suburb, a kindly gentleman named Cordell Hull let her ride his ponies. She has swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a party attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used...
Furious, Lord Beaverbrook had ordered his evening Standard to come to the defense of his morning Express. Eager Beaver-boys combed the files for old tomatoes to throw at Cummings. They could find little or nothing-even after they had called the victim himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about...
Last week, the liberal Manchester Guardian emitted a suspicious humph: "Putting all this nonsense together, it looks as though Lord Beaverbrook is trying by his own peculiar methods to help the Tory overtures for a Liberal-Conservative alliance . . . Lord Beaverbrook is losing touch...