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Terry Mansfield's drive and massive personality will be missed.
The boy from Walthamstow has done good. After more than 40 years spent bringing colour to the media business, Terry Mansfield CBE must have one of the highest profiles in the publishing industry.
It all began at the advertising agency DH Brocklesby in 1958, where the 16-year-old Mansfield took a job as an office boy. Then national service intervened. He did his time as a Redcoat and radio presenter and fetched up on Christmas Island, made famous for hosting atomic tests. 'Perhaps the reason I'm so crazy is the radiation,' Mansfield suggests.
He also blames his inclination to work ...