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[…]s born 31st of August, midnight actually, 1910, in Kaliningrad, which was called Konigsberg. Right?Yes.That's it.1Right. And you have mixed ancestry you told me?Yes, Russian and, German and Latvian.Right. Could you briefly sketch...?No?The family origin, your father, no? You....No, no. It's not[…]
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[…]a lawyer or journalist or something exalted like that. It reminds of the Desmond Dickinson story "don't tell my nother, I'll working in the film industry, she thinks I've an honest job playing a piano in a brothel."AL: What were your duties?SC: I was given an extradinary silly job for someone , no h[…]
[…] didn't know until some years afterwards he was there to try me out to see whether I could drink or […]
[…] born with our genetic structures. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, I try not to make judgements about anyone for that reason. […]
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[…]p;Ian Rutter 12:16 OB a lot of the midpoints were well known, and the paths back to London. So wherever the OB was, you tend to try and fire at a known midpoint where you could then pass the signal on. Otherwise you'd have to start again and start getting the OS maps out and dr[…]
