| 词条 | Eileen Ascroft |
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Eileen Ascroft (1914 – 29 April 1962) was a journalist and writer. Ascroft worked as a journalist at the Daily Mirror, where she met her second husband, Hugh Cudlipp; the couple married in 1945.[1] (Her first husband was the film director Alexander Mackendrick.) In her book about Cudlipp, Newspapermen, Ruth Dudley Edwards describes Ascroft as "blonde, talented and ambitious".[2] Ascroft was sacked from the Mirror by the Editorial Director, Harry Guy Bartholomew, for using his oak office door as a dartboard.[3] Ascroft was responsible for starting the women's page at the Evening Standard. She and Hugh went on to become the most powerful couple on Fleet Street: "The combined power of Mr and Mrs Cudlipp over the livelihoods of hundreds, maybe thousands, of newspaper men and woman [sic], even benevolently exercised as they have always been, are going to be immense and terrifying".[4] According to an obituary notice in The Times, "she could also pilot an aeroplane, having learnt to do so in an idle spell in Australia".[5] Ascroft died in April 1962, aged 47.[5] At an inquest, her death was ruled to accidental, from an unintended overdose of sleeping pills.[6] Her book, The Magic Key to Charm (1938), is a collection of her journalism for women published by the Mirror. References1. ^{{cite book|editor-last=Griffiths|editor-first=Dennis|title=The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992|location=London & Basingstoke|publisher=Macmillsn|year=1992|page=179}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ascroft, Eileen}}{{UK-journalist-stub}}2. ^Edwards, Ruth Dudley: Newspapermen, Secker and Warburg, 2003 3. ^Cudlipp, Hugh Walking on the Water Bodley Head, 1976 4. ^New Statesman, 3 February 1961 5. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1962-04-30/20/10.html|title=Miss Eileen Ascroft|work=The Times|date=30 April 1962|accessdate=16 August 2017|page=20}} {{subscription required}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1962-05-04/6/9.html|title=Accidental Death of Miss Ascroft: Overdose of Sleeping Tablets|work=The Times|date=4 May 1962|accessdate=16 August 2017|page=6}} {{subscription required}} 4 : 1914 births|1962 deaths|British women writers|English women journalists |
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