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Michael Wharton (1913-2006).(Obituary )(Obituary)
MICHAEL WHARTON, better ,known as the London Daily Telegraph s and Sunday Telegraph's Peter Simple, died on January 23, 2006, a little short of his ninety-third birthday, and three days after his last column was published. He had written his first, "with an appalling hangover", on New Year's Day, 1957. The Peter Simple column had been founded by his friend Colin Welch (who got him the job) on October 18, 1955. For thirty-three of those forty-nine years it appeared four times a week.
When I spoke to Michael by telephone a few days before he died, he said his fingers were becoming too stiff to type. But the last of the column (known to us with simple majesty as The ...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Wilson, A.N. January 28, 2006 700+ words
...is silent. Aged 92, Michael Wharton is dead. In 1957 he...s Way of the World column under the pseudonym...From the beginning the column was a team effort...things. In the death of Michael Wharton we have lost both the...the 'Peter Simple' column. What fired the whole...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire January 28, 2006 700+ words
...Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple MICHAEL Wharton, who died this week aged 92...Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple column. MICHAEL Wharton, who died this week aged 92...Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple column. The column, which Wharton...
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- Magazine article from: Campaign March 3, 2006 700+ words
...reviving its Peter Simple humorous column. Peter Simple 2, written by the...on from the original Peter Simple column, which ran in The Daily Telegraph...years. Peter Simple's creator, Michael Wharton, died last month.
- Diary.(growing old)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Wheatcroft, Geoffrey January 28, 2006 700+ words
...describe.' I felt better immediately. Come to think of it, Michael Wharton must have been almost 60 when I first met him. 'Heartening...gloom. But apart from the fact that his 'Peter Simple' column truly was touched by genius, it's cheering to think that...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Johnson, Paul February 25, 2006 700+ words
The recent death of Michael Wharton, aged 92, raises the interesting question: who was the...be able to propose the impossible with a straight face.' Michael Wharton, of course, would not have agreed with that. He took the...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Wordsworth, Dot November 19, 2005 700+ words
In Michael Wharton's novel Sheldrake, the hero, Major Sheldrake, finds himself in the northern town of Borewich where he is given unsought information...
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- Newspaper article from: Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX) January 14, 2007 700+ words
...on Dec. 22 at the par-5 8th hole at Riverside Golf Course on the blue course. Witnesses to the fete were Tommy Holt, Michael Wharton and Les Hayes. Hole-in-one Sonny Bean opened the year hitting the perfect shot with an ace on Jan. 9 at the 150...
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- Magazine article from: Marketing Week Murray, Iain November 14, 2002 700+ words
Once in a while a journalist comes up with a telling phrase that sticks. Bernard Levin coined the Nanny State; Michael Wharton -- the Telegraph's Peter Simple -- gave us the Race Relations Industry; and Keith Waterhouse invented The Department...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Waugh, Alexander June 21, 2003 700+ words
...again. You must read Michael Wharton's latest collection...and, in any case, Michael Wharton had already signed...bequeathing to my father his column 'and all its inhabitants...influence that lie between Michael Wharton and my family, partly...
- Simply indispensable.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Colebatch, Hal G.P. October 1, 2004 700+ words
...19, 2004, was Michael Wharton's ninety-first birthday--The Column's quality has...constant themes of The Column and of the world...millions of words Michael Wharton has written. Apart...seven years of The Column, which for most...
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