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Words and Deedes
1st Pan 2007 edition trade paperback fine as new condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
800 pages, Paperback
First published March 28, 2013
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W.F. Deedes
10 books3 followersWilliam Francis "Bill" Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL (1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist; he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Satirical magazine Private Eye's "Dear Bill" spoof letters from Denis Thatcher, published throughout Maragaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister, were assumed to be addressed to Deedes. The Eye also based its long-running editorial comment, "Shome mishtake shurely?", on Deedes' distinctive slur.
According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Deedes
Satirical magazine Private Eye's "Dear Bill" spoof letters from Denis Thatcher, published throughout Maragaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister, were assumed to be addressed to Deedes. The Eye also based its long-running editorial comment, "Shome mishtake shurely?", on Deedes' distinctive slur.
According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Deedes
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