Headmaster of of Larchfield School in Helensburgh (1966-76) and Keil School in Dumbarton (1976-84), where he developed a reputation for the teaching of mathematics – a subject on which he lectured nationally.. She was a great catalyst and helpful conspirator in other people’s affairs, be they social, sexual or professional.During this period she spent much time in Tangier and Paris where she befriended the Beat Poets, the novelist William Burroughs (who became a lifelong friend), the writer and artist Brion Gysin (whom she considered her adoptive brother) and Paul and Jane Bowles. Treadwell’s career, as an actor, war correspondent, traveller, novelist, and campaigner for women’s rights, makes stirring reading; and it is easy to see how her once-famous play made such a hit on the pre-war Soviet stage, as a spur to creative direction and an indictment of capitalist America.A feminist programme note pushes Treadwell as a forerunner of Beckett and Mamet; but the real link is with Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine, another expressionist treatment of office life which appeared in 1922, six years before Machinal, and featured an anonymous hero (Mr Zero). He has watched Charlton since his mother used to take him to the Valley on a bus from Sevenoaks.
We built the best cars, the best motorbikes, the best ships and dug the best coal.’He praised other past achievements of his generation, the formation of the National Health Service, the fight for democracy ‘The NHS is not British any longer. .’This, emphatically, would not have been the Cooke style, but then the demure former manager was far more intense and seldom wore his heart on his sleeve. The Rawson’s fish market is equally alluring: stalls with glistening salmon, crustaceans on crushed ice, and oddities such as sand eels ( pounds 1.75 per lb).Bradford is a market-goer’s Mecca, for the Rawson is only one of three large marts. A Newcastle upon Tyne judge who kissed and touched a court usher is to be investigated after further allegations of ‘over-familiarity’ with female staff emerged. Taxable profits at the Nottingham-based group rose to pounds 8.2m for the six months to 30 June from pounds 6.5m last time. It ended 16 years of civil war that cost at least several hundred thousand lives and laid waste to a fertile country which, endowed with oil and diamonds, is potentially one of richest nations in Africa.The civil war erupted in 1975 when the transitional government, set up to oversee elections, collapsed amid street fighting in Luanda among the MPLA, Unita and Holden Roberto’s National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA).While calling on his supporters to remain calm yesterday, Mr Savimbi suggested that Unita was prepared to renew the armed struggle.
His father is a retired senior civil servant in Ulster and an OBE. We came together and the rest of the university completely disappeared.In my case, there was a great passion: I wanted to be with Bel, and I felt that every hour when I wasn’t with her was an hour wasted. What with the departure of those on the left, who feel she has betrayed them by dropping her old Bennite principles, and those on the right, who feel that she has been insufficiently loyal to John Smith, Mrs Beckett’s fan club has shrunk.’She’s Princess Anne without the humanity,’ one delegate told me. It was a comic performance of great sensitivity.On stage, Connor starred in the revue One Over the Eight (1962), at the Duke of York’s Theatre, the original London West End production of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (1963), as Hysterium – and directed the show when it went on tour – The Four Musketeers (1967), with Harry Secombe at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, playing King Louis XIII, and the revue Carry On London (1973) at the Victoria Palace.In later years, he appeared in cameo roles on television, in programmes such as Frankie Howerd Reveals All (1980) and the situation comedy That’s My Boy (1981), before joining the cast for the pilot of the French Resistance comedy ‘Allo ‘Allo in 1982, as the undertaker Alphonse. A SOCIAL worker subjected a teenage boy to a catalogue of sexual abuse and offered him a pounds 5,000 bribe to keep quiet, Knightsbridge Crown Court was told yesterday. They can find themselves recreating eccentricities which have become part of their life, but which would appear ludicrous if you were starting from scratch.The Milne-Watsons have gone for a compromise.
On the face of things, it’s just another story of boy meets robot: Foster is on the run in a Blade Runner-style dystopia, and to help him he has only a wisecracking, Wizard of Oz-quoting vacuum cleaner called Joey. Mr Prescott will probably have a key role in shaking up the party’s organisation and launching the mass membership drive that Mr Blair promised yesterday. Graham Wood collapsed after its subsidiary, Blight & White, went into receivership three weeks ago, owed pounds 500,000 by the administrators of Canary Wharf, where it had been working.Paul Bromton, a West Country businessman, tried to put together a rescue package for Graham Wood, whose shares were suspended at 16p last month, but was unable to complete it.John Soden, who with Peter Spratt is joint receiver of Graham Wood, said he was pleased with the response he had received.Graham Wood Structural has an annual turnover of about pounds 40m and is profitable. In fact it would be much the best way to come across them.’Terra Incognita’ is at the Castle Museum, Nottingham, (0602 483504), till 8 Nov, and the Mead Gallery, Warwick University, Coventry (0203 524524), from 16 Nov to 19 Dec.(Photograph omitted).