Word: beaverbrook
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...Irish Red Cross, under a plan called "Operation Shamrock." During the trip their escorting Red Cross nurse left the children momentarily in the care of Mrs. Penelope Aitken, daughter of Sir John Maffey, British representative to Eire, and wife of William Aitken, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook. One little German girl, aged about 12, stared at beauteous, blonde Mrs. Aitken a long time, then fingered her coat and said: "That is a lovely coat; where did you get it?" Replied Mrs. Aitken: "In England." The little girl asked: "Are you English, then?" Mrs. Aitken replied, "I am." Whereupon the little...
...eight weeks, Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express had given four columns an issue to a serialized digest of a new book called Montgomery, "the authentic life story" written by its topflight war correspondent, tiny, toothy Alan Moorehead...
Recently sensation-loving Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express aired the report that Britain had asked for bombs. Last week, in the U.S., conscientious Columnist Marquis W. Childs aired It further. Childs told how Bernard Baruch, chief U.S. atomic negotiator in the U.N., had been at great pains first to assure himself that there were no A-bombs in Britain, then to assure Russia's Andrei Gromyko of that same fact. Gromyko, at first dubious, came to believe Baruch...
Last week Londoners were reading How to Win Fortune, by Lord Beaverbrook, who hadn't a shilling at 20, and at 30 had ?1,000,000. The best advice he could give was to shun Monte Carlo, and to go to work on one's industry, judgment and health. Sample Beaverisms...
...Beaverbrook's guide to the aspiring poor was printed not in his own gigantic Express, but in an obscure London weekly, the Recorder, which failed to tell its readers that the articles had been written and published 20 years before. His smart Publisher William Brittain, once briefly a Beaver boy himself, had persuaded Lord Beaverbrook to let him reprint the articles free. Result: the Recorder's circulation jumped from 10,000 to 40,000. If no one else made a fortune out of the Beaver's advice, Publisher Brittain seemed likely...