Beaverbrook Honoured
(Special Crspdt N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, May 27. Six hundred and fifty-eight guests, seated at 62 tables in the ballroom of the Dorchester Hotel, in Park Lane, rose and applauded as one man last night—newspaper proprietors, editors, writers, artists, and cartoonists—as Lord Beaverbrook, aged 85 that day, joined them at a dinner given in his honour by his fellow Canadian newspaper owner, Lord Thomson of Fleet. There has never been such a gathering before in London. It was described as Fleet Street’s greatest tribute to anyone. Red Indians There was a stuffed beaver in the foyer, and four Royal Canadian Mounted Police and four Red Indian chiefs from the New Brunswick area formed a guard.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30454, 30 May 1964, Page 18
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115Beaverbrook Honoured Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30454, 30 May 1964, Page 18
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