LATE LORD NORTHCLIFFE
SHARES IN THE TIMES.
LONDON, April 26. Describing the late Lord Northcliffe in his book’ “A Traveller in News,” Sir William Beach, Thomas, the well-known war correspondent, says; “Lord Northclifte was so deeply a journalist that a bad paper affected him as discord might a musician. Lord Northcliffe, asked by, Mr John Walter, during the negotiations. by the former for his share in The Times, ‘Would you make The Times a penny?’ replied:' ‘No, I would make it worth threepence.’ . The crucial ‘interviews leading to the final transaction were held under a hedge behind, a cabbage patch on Hampstead heath.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19477, 12 May 1925, Page 8
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103LATE LORD NORTHCLIFFE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19477, 12 May 1925, Page 8
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