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...Mencken. "It is a pity," Sir Winston Churchill once said, "that so able a writer should show himself so dominated by malevolence." Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees with almost everything the Mirror stands for. He is armed with intolerance, bigotry, and irascibility. But the Mirror would be a duller place without...
Last week, covering the Labor Party conference at Scarborough (see FOREIGN NEWS), Cassandra gave a demonstration of what Editorial Director Cudlipp means. Writing in the Laborite Mirror, Cassandra blasted Labor Party Chief Clement Attlee: "The whole effect [of his report on his trip to Red China] was that we can do business with Peking ... It is a sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending...
...editor of the Labor Party's London Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504), Percy Cudlipp, 48, has had trouble keeping the paper from being a dull, party house organ. Caught between the Trades Union Congress and Labor Party, which owns 49% of the paper, and Odhams Press Ltd., which holds the other 51% of the stock, Editor Cudlipp has battled to make the paper a lively daily while satisfying his political bosses' demands for space for such dull stories as long-winded party speeches. Last week Editor Cudlipp got tired of the delicate balancing act. Barely four days...
...named editor of News of the World. Thus the combined newspaper circulation now directed by the three Cudlipp brothers is 19,675,002. Reg is regarded by some Fleet Streeters as the "most unlikely fellow" to edit the wildly sensational News of the World, since, as brother Percy says, "Reg is the distinguished one-could have been a bishop...
Only brother Reg had not made his way into an editor's chair, though he was close to it: he became deputy editor of News of the World (circ. 8,230,158), world's biggest weekly. This week Reg Cudlipp made it three straight for the Cudlipp boys...