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Posh ClubFuture journalist and Beatles' Press Officer Derek Taylor once recalled going as a teenager for a job at a research establishment during the war and being asked by a peer of the realm whether he belonged to any posh clubs. "Yes," Taylor replied, "the Ovaltineys." He got the job.
[The League of Ovaltineys was in fact a real club which, like Ovaltine itself, "stood (and stands) for the innocence, comfort, wholesomeness and safety of English childhood..."]
Taylor, Derek (1932-1997) British journalist and write, Beatles' Press Officer [noted for many
books
chronicling
Life in the Sixties]
[Sources: Sunday Times, June 7, 1987]More Derek Taylor anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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