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HE HATED the modern world, or at least he professed to, though he perhaps gained more from its easy ways and lack of conviction than he was prepared to admit, as he swapped his legendary intake of Scotch for three bottles of Champagne a day before finally quitting, while acknowledging his lung cancer by switching to the milder Silk Cut cigarettes.
It was a wonderful performance by a brilliant man - harrumphing about the decline of this country since the charmed 1950s, but, perhaps, in moments alone, smiling quietly at the praise heaped on his memoirs.See the full content of this document
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Obituary ; Simon Gray
To observers who didn't understand his courage, tenacity and essentially industrious nature, it...
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