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Surface nugget. (History).(Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life)(Book Review)
THE CONTEMPORARY biographer faces new problems. One of them was called to mind in a recent remark by Andrew Stephenson in the Sydney Morning Herald. He was reviewing the valuable television series Australian Biography, by Robin Hughes. According to Stephenson, a print biography faces special difficulties in today's world where it must compete with the magic of filmed and sound recordings of the subject.
To illustrate this point, Stephenson instances a filmed interview with Dr H.C. Coombs. Asked whether he had any disappointments in his life--which had spanned most of the twentieth century and seen him in a great many important national offices--"Nugget" Coombs ...
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