Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]on’t know.LH: I remember when I started, it didn’t seem to me that everybody was fighting as they are; I think it’s probably the effect of television publicity and things that have happened since. But I don’t remember at that time – well the money was no better was it?WR: The money wasn’t very good […]

BEHP Management Meeting 22 Aug 17

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Mike Bradsell

[…]t they'd done to the boyfriend. And in the second place, they thought his name was big enough for them not to not only not to interfere, but it would publicise itself, and it didn't, and it took very, very little money. And I think, Ken, after that, this is pure conjecture. If he's looking down at m[…]

Ronald Grant

[…]where one company was charging another in order to deflate the profits. I don't know I never did discover. But they I knew that that room was full of publicity, because I'd been there to collect things. And outside the door, on the floor. There were all these big bundles of lobbies, pre war, America[…]
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