
Bill Deedes Is Dead: Harry Diamond Survives
OLD hacks don’t die and freelancers don’t rest - they just join the Anorak forums:
One of the names which crossed the coffee table was Harry Diamond. Now there was a one off. The first words the young reporter Harry Diamond uttered to Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill on passing him in the corridor at Westminster were: “Excuse me Sir, your flies are open.” Churchill’s brilliant reply was: “My boy, there is no harm in leaving open the door of the cage when the bird is dead.”
It was one of the early incidents of thousands Harry’s life in the press, media and public relations. He is the man who sold Glasgow to the world under the fabulous…
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Posted: 19th, August 2007 | In: Twitterings Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
If you are the blonde, 34″ double DD, who offered to have my children…”Well, hello there!!”
If not. I regret you are mistaken. I’m a civil engineer working on sanitation projects in Greater Manchester. I rarely get out these days.
August 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I have been a bit nervous about joining in here but that AGW is a cynical bastard
It should be recorded if he’s the feature writer/editor I think he is, you are lucky to have him.
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