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Edward Grayson Alistair Cooke writes: Edward Grayson was a real-life version of Mr Memory in John Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps. “Edward,” one would ask him, “I am going to Fort William via Peebles and Pitlochry. What train should I catch?” He would reel off the details of departures from King’s Cross and the times of connecting trains en route. His phenomenal briefing service included the results of every Cup Final ever played. While the rest of us slept he would be absorbing yet more facts, browsing the first editions in the grubby all-night cafeteria at the old Daily Telegraph office in Fleet Street. But he was no editor’s delight. The draft for a Conservative Party pamphlet that he sent me on piles of scruffy pieces of paper... [read full story]
