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In late summer [[1950]], the Dispatch was partly responsible for launching the [[Unidentified flying object|Flying Saucer]] debate in th UK, when in a circulation battle with the ''"[[Sunday Express]],"'' both papers competed to serialise the seminal books by [[Donald Keyhoe|Major Donald Keyhoe]] "''Flying Saucers are Real,''" [[Frank Scully]]’s ''"Behind the Flying Saucers"'' and [[Gerald Heard]]'s ''"Riddle of the Flying Saucers."'' Eade had been encouraged to promote ‘flying saucer’ stories by his friend [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten]] whom he had served as Press officer during the [[Second World War]].<ref>http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/casehoax2.htm</ref> |
In late summer [[1950]], the Dispatch was partly responsible for launching the [[Unidentified flying object|Flying Saucer]] debate in th UK, when in a circulation battle with the ''"[[Sunday Express]],"'' both papers competed to serialise the seminal books by [[Donald Keyhoe|Major Donald Keyhoe]] "''Flying Saucers are Real,''" [[Frank Scully]]’s ''"Behind the Flying Saucers"'' and [[Gerald Heard]]'s ''"Riddle of the Flying Saucers."'' Eade had been encouraged to promote ‘flying saucer’ stories by his friend [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten]] whom he had served as Press officer during the [[Second World War]].<ref>http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/casehoax2.htm</ref> |
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In [[1959]], the Dispatch exposed a story about [[Scientology]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]], where he sold shares in a company for $65 that didn't exist. Hubbard apologized, and returned all monies, and allegedly commenting: "It's lucky the police did not become involved, otherwise something most unpleasant might have happened."<ref>http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos-15.html#p5</ref> |
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Its last editor was [[Walter Hayes]], and it ceased publication in [[1961]]. |
Its last editor was [[Walter Hayes]], and it ceased publication in [[1961]]. |
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Revision as of 11:52, 5 May 2007
The Sunday Dispatch was a British newspaper, published between 27 September, 1801 and 1961.[1][2]
First published as the Weekly Dispatch in 1801, it was bought by Alfred Harmsworth and Lord Rothermere in 1903[3] from the Newnes family.[4] The pair turned the newspaper around from bankruptcy, and made it the biggest selling Sunday newspaper, changing its name to the Sunday Dispatch in 1928.
In 1933, The Dispatch published Harry Price's book "Leaves From a Psychist's Case-Book" in a series of 10 articles.[5]
In 1940, then editor Charles Eade asked Winston Churchill weeks before he became British Prime Minister for permission to publish an article Churchill wrote in 1937 entitled "How The Jews Can Combat Persecution" - Churchill, recognising the changed political situation, refused.[6].
In 1945, the first Miss Great Britain contest was held by Morecambe and Heysham Council in association with the Dispatch, which as a preliminary to the personal appearance heats at Morecambe, photographic heats held in the newspaper attracted contestant from all over the country.[7]
In late summer 1950, the Dispatch was partly responsible for launching the Flying Saucer debate in th UK, when in a circulation battle with the "Sunday Express," both papers competed to serialise the seminal books by Major Donald Keyhoe "Flying Saucers are Real," Frank Scully’s "Behind the Flying Saucers" and Gerald Heard's "Riddle of the Flying Saucers." Eade had been encouraged to promote ‘flying saucer’ stories by his friend Lord Mountbatten whom he had served as Press officer during the Second World War.[8]
In 1959, the Dispatch exposed a story about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, where he sold shares in a company for $65 that didn't exist. Hubbard apologized, and returned all monies, and allegedly commenting: "It's lucky the police did not become involved, otherwise something most unpleasant might have happened."[9]
Its last editor was Walter Hayes, and it ceased publication in 1961.
References
- ^ http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html
- ^ http://www.georgianindex.net/publications/newspapers/news-dates.html
- ^ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUrothermere.htm
- ^ http://www.dmgt.co.uk/aboutdmgt/dmgtbackground/anexcellence
- ^ http://www.harryprice.co.uk/Writings/writ_by_price_into.htm
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/nwinston11.xml
- ^ http://www.miss-gb.co.uk/history.asp
- ^ http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/casehoax2.htm
- ^ http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos-15.html#p5
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