The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 19th, 2007
Byline: VICTORIA COMBE LORD 'BILL' DEEDES, who died last Friday at the age of 94, was a giantof journalism. He was the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's resourceful foreignreporter Boot in his novel Scoop and was a war hero, a Cabinet Minister and,for 12 years, editor of The Daily Telegraph. But, in one of the most remarkablephases of his life, he went back on the road with his reporter's notebook,travelling the world at an age by which most people would have retired. Hisco-writer for 13 years was a young journalist, Victoria Combe. This is her moving account of their adventures and how Bill be...
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