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FridayÌý02nd March 2007
(Rpt) SundayÌý04th March |
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Charles Forte (Lord Forte)
Hotel and Catering Magnate.
Charles Forte moved to Scotland with his Italian family when he was three years old. He followed his father into the catering trade, opened a series of the café’s and restaurants in London and – from the 1950s onwards – created a property portfolio that included several hundred hotels, including some of the swankiest establishments in Europe. The Waldorf, the Grosvenor House and the George V in Paris were all owned by Charles Forte – but so were Happy Eater and Little Chef cafes. The empire continued to flourish under the name Trust House Forte and its owner was enobled by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1982.
John Wilson talks to his son Sir Rocco Forte, who took over the running of the family business, and to his daughter Olga Polizzi, herself a successful hotelier, about their father Charles Forte.
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Died February 28 2007, aged 98
Born November 26 1908
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Arthur M Schlesinger
Pulitzer prize winning historian and former Special Assistant to President Kennedy.
ÌýArthur Schlesinger was one of America’s most acclaimed and controversial historians, a man who chronicled the workings of the White House looking from the inside out. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice; firstly for his biography of President Andrew Jackson, ‘The Age of Jackson’ in 1945 and then, two decades on, for what is now regarded as the definitive portrait of John F Kennedy, the book A Thousand Days. Arthur Schlesinger joined Kennedy’s 1960 campaign trail as an advisor and speechwriter, and was rewarded with the role of Special Assistant to the new President the following year.
The creation of the image of the administration as a new Camelot, with its youthful leader, his glamorous wife and visionary policies, was widely credited to Arthur Schlesinger. A partisan liberal, Schlesinger was often criticised by fellow historians and political opponents. But one heavyweight on the other side of the American political divide retained deep respect for him - former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was a lifelong friend.
John Wilson talks to Dr Henry Kissinger.
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Died 28th February 2007, aged 89
Born 15 October 1917
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Earl Jellicoe
War hero, diplomat, politician and businessman.
ÌýEarl Jellicoe was one of life’s more colourful characters, a man who played out various roles; he was fearless wartime commando, a dashing foreign office diplomat, and a Cabinet minister whose political high life was cut down by a sex scandal. In 1973 he was forced to admit to using prostitutes in the wake of the Lord Lampton call-girl story.
George Jellicoe was born into a family of wealth and power. The Son of Earl Jellicoe, the Admiral of the Fleet, his Godfather was King George V and he served as a page at the coronation of George VI. Jellicoe inherited his father’s title in 1939 but earned for himself a reputation for courage and leadership over the next five years. As a commando with the SAS, Earl Jellicoe led a series of daring raids throughout Nazi-occupied southern Europe. There are Boys Own tales of Jellico disguising himself as a drunken peasant whilst on a secret mission in Crete; he led a raid which destroyed 20 German bombers on the ground; he was among the first wave of Allied troops which retook Athens, having arrived in the Greek capital on a borrowed bicycle. After the war he joined the Foreign Office and, despite having first sat in the House of Lords in 1939, didn’t make a maiden speech till 1958. He forged a reputation as an ebullient man in his public and private lives.
John Wilson talks to his daughter Zara Jellicoe and to Lord Carrington who worked alongside George Jellicoe both in opposition and in the Cabinet.
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Died February 22 2007, aged 88
Born April 4 1918
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