The Archive · 1938

Leader Writer's Death

The death of Lan Calvin at the ly age of 61 is felt as a personal many people who never knew him, just as they feel a sense of loss n the disappearance of the "Morning Post," of which he was chief leader writer from 1914 till its absorption by the "Daily Telegraph." Whether you agreed with him or not, his leaders were the best: thing in the {aty Press, masterpieces of terse, trenchant sardonic comment.

He hated the Northcliffe papers: but once, obliged to take the same line with them he wrote "We would not deny some usefulness in the Northeliffe Press. Like the loud, vul-lar &abble of the geese at Rome, it

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