Dame Iris Murdoch
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Novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, and always felt strongly Irish. She studied Greats at Somerville College, Oxford, England, from 1938. She was conscripted as an assistant principal at the Treasury in 1942, and in Jun 1944 joined the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Association. She won the Sarah Smithson studentship in philosophy at Newnham, Cambridge, England, in 1947, and in 1948 gained a fellowship at St Anne's College, Oxford, England, where she remained until 1963.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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Victor Sassie
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Restaurateur Victor Sassi became involved in catering in the early 1930s. He was sent by the British Hotel and Restaurant Association to Budapest, Hungary, to work for Karoly Gundel in 1932. He was working at the Hungarian Pavilion in New York, NY, by 1939, and then moved to the Budapest restaurant in London, England. After serving in the second world war, he reopened this restaurant in 1945, changing its name to the Gay Hussar by 1954.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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James Aldridge
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Cheesemaker James Aldridge was born in London, England, in 1939. He trained as a garage mechanic and scaffolder, but turned to cheesemaking in 1981 after damaging a disc in an accident.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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