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...British sportswriters agreed: they knew that Chataway spends precious little time on the track, smokes, drinks beer, and is notoriously lazy about training. "It is fascinating to read all the gibberish which is being written and spoken about sporting good will between the two nations," said the Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson, "when all the good is on our side and all the will (to win) is on theirs...
Bannered the Chicago Sun-Times: MARILYN TELLS JOE: YOU'RE OUT AT HOME. Cried the New York Journal American atop Page One: JOE FANNED ON JEALOUSY. Reporting the news, the tabloid New York Mirror breathed heavily: "Shock waves swept around the world...
...just a little tired of being told that, at any rate, their teams are the best behaved. The big question in Britain last week: Had the Russians deliberately invited Arsenal in order to set up an easy victory for themselves? England was "sacrificed," snarled Peter Wilson in the Daily Mirror, to "make a Russian holiday...
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...
Sticky End. Irish-born (County Derry) Bill Connor has been Cassandra ever since he started in newspapering on the Mirror in 1935. The son of a civil servant, Cassandra did a variety of odd jobs until Mirror editors, intrigued by his arrogant, self-assured, insulting ways, gave him a job as a columnist. Cassandra ("One of those titles cooked up in a pub") was an overnight success. He also got the paper into very hot water, which is just where the saucy, sensational Mirror likes...