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For Beaverbrook, the 1920s were not only a period when he was to meet continuing success with his newspapers, it was also to be a time of great personal loss. Throughout those years he behaved like a playboy with a purpose: ‘The powerful, the promising, the storytellers, the witty and the beautiful were welcome at his table: he did not suffer the foolish or the plain. He became a figure in the social scene, flitting between Deauville and Monte Carlo with his guests. He became a racehorse owner, acquired a yacht, and multiplied his millions by entry into the film industry.’
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A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook, p. 241.
Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook. A Life, p. 257.
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Ibid.
Ibid.
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Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget p. 177.
Nigel Nicolson, op. cit., p. 69.
Ibid., p. 62.
Ibid., pp. 78–9.
Ibid., p. 88.
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Griffiths, D. (1996). Celebrating 100 Years. In: Plant Here The Standard. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_16
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