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...never talked about itself and did not even give its correspondents bylines. Last week the new Times showed once again how much it has changed by running a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine boasting of its achievements in the year since it was bought by Lord Thomson of Fleet. Complete with drawings of Thomson, his editor and the paper's heroes, the article told how the "most dignified newspaper in the world hustled its way to being the most talked about sheet on the street in twelve constructive and destructive months...
...Before Thomson, said the piece, "the Times was a newspaper in danger of getting locked up in its own image." Surrounded by new glass and concrete buildings, "it had something of the aspect of a fortress held at siege by change." Then Thomson arrived. "On a darkening evening last January, anyone looking across from Blackfriars Station to the lighted windows in Printing House Square might have been pardoned for imagining he saw the whole edifice down on its haunches ready to spring." It sprang. "Times correspondents were told to take off their masks and come out into the open, bylined...
There will be one associate professor, Harrison C. White, and six untenured members--Howard C. Berg, Paul J. Hollander, Charles S. Maier '60, Barrington Moore Jr., and James C. Thomson...
...Observer's Middle East Correspondent Patrick Scale, who replaced Philby when he defected to Russia in 1963, had been working on the story for four years with the help of Philby's ex-wife Eleanor. Publication was still months away when the Observer learned that Roy Thomson's revitalized Sunday Times had dispatched a ten-man team to get the story. To beat the Times to the punch, the Observer slipped in its first Philby installment on Oct. 1. As soon as they caught sight of the edition, the Times editors replated and ran their first Philby...
Very Good Picture. All very embarrassing to the government. At a dinner given by Lord Thomson for visiting U.S. businessmen last week, Foreign Secretary George Brown, who admits to getting a bit tipsy at parties, departed from his prepared speech and lit into Thomson. "It is about time you shut up. Some of us think it is about time we stopped giving the Russians half a start on what we are doing, and, my dear Roy, I ask you and the Sunday Times to take this into account and for God's sake, stop." Replied Thomson...