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On 2 June 1953, The Times newspaper carried two news items with almost equal prominence. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth was crowned Queen of England that day. The other news item was the conquest of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. What is remarkable is that The Times was the only newspaper in the world to carry the story of the Everest conquest. When James Morris, the correspondent of The Times of London, reported it, journalism achieved one of...
