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Stanley Price, who died in 2019, in his 88th year, could simply pick up the phone and take anyone to lunch - whether it be Marilyn Monroe or Sophia Loren. Roger Price reviews My Lunch With Marilyn And Other Stories.
Among the listings for houses, stamps and musical instruments for sale in the summer of 1938, the Manchester Guardian carried a series of advertisements from Austrian parents seeking homes in Britain for their children. In the space of five months, the newspaper ran a total of 80 of these ads. Just a few lines long, and written in stilted English, there was no disguising the desperation in them. 'Fervent prayer in great distress' read one appeal, asking for a home for a 'healthy, clever, very musical' 13-year-old. Another begged for a philanthropist to take 'a much gifted girl' as a foster child. Journalist Julian Borger grew up with a vague impression that his father Robert had come to Britain from Vienna as a result of a newspaper ad, and after his father's death he managed to track it down. It read simply: 'I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family.'
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