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A Taste of Tinsel
132 pages, Hardcover
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Brian Dowling
7 books1 followerBrian Dowling, was a journalist and Public Relations Consultant. He was educated at Tonbridge and won a scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge. He joined the RAF as a Cambridge cadet pilot in 1944.
Following the war, Dowling returned to university, but was rusticated from Christ’s for declaiming Aeschylus from the clock tower at two in the morning. He had achieved a First in Classics in the initial part of his Tripos but left Cambridge with a Third in Moral Sciences. There were, he declared, “only two degrees worth having – an effortless First and an effortless Third, and I got ’em both”.
Brian began as a journalist for Picture Post, working alongside the famous photographer, Bert Hardy. While Hardy captured many evocative images of 1950s Britain, it was Brian who chose the subjects and locations, including Picture Post's most celebrated Bert Hardy Photograph: “Blackpool Belles”.
Following Picture Post, he became a publicist with the Rank Organisation and a pioneer in the field of public relations. In 1957, he wrote a television documentary series, "The Way We Live", for a subsidiary of the Rank Organisation and Within two years he was head of Rank’s public and press relations department.
On leaving the Rank organisation, Dowling started his own business, becoming one of London's first corporate relations consultants.
Following the war, Dowling returned to university, but was rusticated from Christ’s for declaiming Aeschylus from the clock tower at two in the morning. He had achieved a First in Classics in the initial part of his Tripos but left Cambridge with a Third in Moral Sciences. There were, he declared, “only two degrees worth having – an effortless First and an effortless Third, and I got ’em both”.
Brian began as a journalist for Picture Post, working alongside the famous photographer, Bert Hardy. While Hardy captured many evocative images of 1950s Britain, it was Brian who chose the subjects and locations, including Picture Post's most celebrated Bert Hardy Photograph: “Blackpool Belles”.
Following Picture Post, he became a publicist with the Rank Organisation and a pioneer in the field of public relations. In 1957, he wrote a television documentary series, "The Way We Live", for a subsidiary of the Rank Organisation and Within two years he was head of Rank’s public and press relations department.
On leaving the Rank organisation, Dowling started his own business, becoming one of London's first corporate relations consultants.
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May 31, 2015
For many years, rather than a Christmas card, Brian Dowling sent a pamphlet to friends and family.
The pamphlets contained all manner of peculiarities from the year's news, historical facts of an odd nature and other festive fun.
This volume is an anthology of all of those pamphlets, published in aid of the Parkinson's UK charity, with a forward by Quentin Letts.
The book is a humorous compilation of the absurd, which provided a seasonal spice for all its recipients.
A truly entertaining book which is well worth seeking out.
The pamphlets contained all manner of peculiarities from the year's news, historical facts of an odd nature and other festive fun.
This volume is an anthology of all of those pamphlets, published in aid of the Parkinson's UK charity, with a forward by Quentin Letts.
The book is a humorous compilation of the absurd, which provided a seasonal spice for all its recipients.
A truly entertaining book which is well worth seeking out.
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