Roy Thomson Of Fleet Street (1965)
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Collins 1965, First edition hardback signed by the author with unclipped d/j in overall good condition. Some wear/tear to edges of jacket - boards and pages are clean. 397 pages. Physical description; 396 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 385). Contents; The Thomsons of Eskdale -- Alice, Aunt Hislop and Horatio Alger -- An impatient youth -- My son's girl-friend live here too -- Farmers winger in California -- Sparkplugs and insolvency -- Reception is bad in the North -- How to start a radio station -- Defeat in the status stakes -- A stranger in Timmins -- How to buy a newspaper when penniless -- How to run a newspaper -- Friends and politics -- Alter ego -- April Fools' Day -- Conflict and expansion -- Year One, World War II -- Out of the red -- Embryo monopolist -- Public figure : minor but quotable -- The man with limitless credit. A partnership dissolved -- I love big figures -- Keeping busy -- Peers and snubs ; a defeat and an invitation -- A stranger in Edinburgh -- Edinburgh displeased -- Letters to nobility -- A new managing director -- A charter to televise -- Inauguration of an empire -- Distinguished guests -- Reverse bid -- Successor to Lord Kemsley -- It pays to be honest -- Philanthropy with commercial overtones -- An insult and a proposal of marriage -- Innovations -- Face to face -- Tycoons to Moscow -- Honours [that is, Honors] candidate -- Waiving all excuses -- The rest of the man. Appendix: Thomson newspapers ; Thomson Publications Group, etc. Subjects; Thomson of Fleet, Roy Herbert Thomson Baron (1894-). Thomson of Fleet, Roy Herbert Thomson Baron (1894-) ; Biography. Newspaper publishing Great Britain. Newspapers. Press. History. Biography. Fleet Street. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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