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There was a price to pay for all that limelight. I resolved to sell my life as dearly and quickly as possible, and then step back into the shadows again. Barmouth had an efficient little hospital. I looked around anxiously for my nemesis. The stool opposite was empty — a stage-managed delay, no doubt, to increase the suspense.
We waited.
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It stayed empty. The pitiless ATS, hungry for more blood, were getting restless. It slowly dawned upon me that I had underestimated my own publicity. My opponent, evidently a man who believed what he heard, had Gone Sick. His strategic withdrawal on medical grounds gave me a walkover. I received another ovation even more undeserved than the first and instantly retired from boxing forever, undefeated.
I remain convinced the reason I walked through OCTU with high marks and emerged as a teenage officer was due, not to conscientious study or aptitude, not to all that square-bashing, sweat and effort — but to one lucky Saturday night punch that connected. Being shot was for another day. To my disappointment he was not a fearsome Regular polo player with rows of brave ribbons, but a burbling beery ex-Territorial from Fleet Street, of all places. I felt he was the wrong sort of High Priest, playing in the wrong game.
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There may be nothing lower than a Second Lieutenant, but every volunteer needs a dashing role model. However when I returned to my quarters, a batman had unpacked my kit, laid out the service dress, repolished buttons and Sam Browne, and run my bath. I had recently been living the roles of bored Lance Corporal, then weary Cadet. Now I had become overnight an Officer and a Gentleman. A little glory, with no visible risk. The war was never as good as that again, ever.
I savoured the moment. I went for a snifter with the other chaps in the Mess, as we always say. Soon after those triumphant moments in Plymouth, I prepared to pay the piper: Movement orders came through and I was suddenly a reinforcement, reporting to an unknown regiment in training at a remote place called Alloa.
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This had an undulating hula-hula lilt about it, like a magical posting to some romantic Polynesian isle. No, it could not.
Alloa turned out to be, not an exotic South Seas greeting but a grey and mournful Scottish industrial town in Clackmannanshire. The Battalion of East Surreys billeted in its sad empty houses was route-marched through the rain around Stirling.
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As one of the newer Crusaders, I found the atmosphere unjolly. Depression grew. We would be last seen steaming, it was believed, to Africa. Before leaving Home and Mother for ever I was anxious to get a little mileage on the social scene out of my brand new service dress and lone pip. The journey back to London in a dark freezing wartime train offered standard depression, but next day came a welcome invitation to a farewell lunch at 67 Lombard Street given for me by an uncle, a City banker with Glyn Mills, to celebrate my elevation to elegant cannon-fodder.
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It was a pleasant meal. It also probably saved my life. Could I, he wondered, could I direct sergeant-cameramen in battle? There would be a lot of action. It took me a nanosecond to volunteer for this unknown experience, anywhere at any time. It sounded like adventurous suicide — but it was stylish. I returned to poor grey Alloa and its sullen soldiers, clutching a glimmer of hope amid their mass dejection.
After the Second World War , Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper correspondent during the Korean War during which time his death was mistakenly reported.
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In , he began presenting Whicker's World , which began life as a segment on the Tonight programme before becoming a fully-fledged series itself in the s. Whicker's World was filmed all over the globe and became a huge ratings success in the UK. While presenting Whicker's World , Whicker was known for his subtle brand of satire and social commentary. Whicker's World was parodied in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch featuring a tropical island, "Whicker Island", where all the inhabitants dress and act like Alan Whicker.
Whicker appeared in various adverts for American Express , [5] Barclaycard , [15] and was also the man behind the advertising slogan "Hello World", for travelocity. In this, he met with various people whom he had interviewed decades earlier to see how their lives had progressed since the initial programme. Whicker had a relationship with Olga Deterding from to He neither married nor had children. Whicker died on 12 July from bronchial pneumonia at his home in Jersey , in the Channel Islands , aged Most obituary writers said that Whicker was 87 at the time of his death, based on his entry in Who's Who giving a date of birth in The Financial Times pointed out that his age had been queried, with school records showing August , making him 91 when he died.
His distinctive voice and delivery led to him regularly being parodied by, among others, the Monty Python team, and a jokey rap delivered Whicker-style, called Wikka Wrap, even made the top 20 in He once entered a Whicker soundalike contest and managed to finish in third place. Egypt-born Whicker had also been a war correspondent and, during his own service in the Second Word War, he was among the first group of Allied forces to enter Milan and he filmed footage of the body of Mussolini.
Whicker, who was awarded a CBE for his services to broadcasting eight years ago, moved to the UK as a child. The show saw him interviewing the rich, glamorous and powerful as he presented viewers with a glimpse into the lives of figures such as Joan Collins , Peter Sellers , the Sultan of Brunei and the Haitian president Papa Doc Duvalier. Whicker was honoured with the Richard Dimbleby Award at the Baftas in for his contribution to broadcasting. Irish News. More in Sponsored Minding the gender pay gap — much more than a compliance issue.
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