tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post6189195293927686032..comments2024-03-28T09:46:24.020+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Anna Sándor de Kénos, friend of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, has died Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-37844422831899216242018-07-31T12:07:13.896+03:002018-07-31T12:07:13.896+03:00Leicester, because I read this article when it cam...Leicester, because I read this article when it came it and it reminded me of Paul W<br /><br />https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8677377/The-curse-of-University-Challenge-why-many-winners-go-on-to-obscurity.html<br />JDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-58028877430702840382018-07-30T17:19:10.953+03:002018-07-30T17:19:10.953+03:00I gave 'A Time of Gifts' to my good friend...I gave 'A Time of Gifts' to my good friend Madalane for her 70th Birthday with some trepidation. She was very well read. She said..'how wonderful, why have I never heard of this man?'<br />She then quickly read everything she could find by him, and, I think, fell in love.<br />Soon she had booked a cruise 'in Paddy's footsteps', and asked me to go with her.<br />Tragically she died soon after returning from New Zealand where she was following the English cricket team, and never made the trip.<br />I miss her still. She was the first female winner of University Challenge in 1963. A triumph for a provincial University. Do you know which? Without googleing.<br />Alannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-5093261112880748972018-07-25T10:59:31.816+03:002018-07-25T10:59:31.816+03:00You alarmed me and made me think he had died. I am...You alarmed me and made me think he had died. I am delighted that he is still with us. For a Trotskyite or former one he talks a lot of sense.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-56849056705072915352018-07-25T10:05:39.967+03:002018-07-25T10:05:39.967+03:00Speaking of untimely deaths, Pete North on the sad...Speaking of untimely deaths, Pete North on the sad death of Brendan O’Neill. <br /><br />http://peterjnorth.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-sad-death-of-brendan-oneill.html?m=1Davidnoreply@blogger.com