At a sentimental editorial conference one day last week the London Times's famed Geoffrey Dawson, now 67, retired after 25 years' service, handed his editorship to his assistant, spare. 50-year-old Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward.* The Times marked the occasion as an important milestone in its 156-year history as one of the world's great newspapers. Likewise milestone-minded about the Times were other members of the British press but for different reasons.
For Fleet Street the big milestone was the Times's bloodless revolution. Said the leftish Sunday paper Reynolds News: "The Times recently has been showing refreshing signs of an independent spirit which, expressed with...
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