Michael Burn, 97, Writer and Adventurer
I was probably going to read this obituary just based on the individual's age. Being 97 in 2010 puts you way back there. And there's little I like to do more than think about all that went on in a life that spanned nearly 100 years. But the fine tuned lead by William Grimes clinched it:
Michael Burn, a British journalist and author whose eventful life included an early flirtation with Nazism: a daring commando raid on the fortified port of St. Nazaire, France; an imprisonment in Colditz Castle; a love affair with the British spy Guy Burgess; and a timely intervention in the aftermath of World War II that saved Audrey Hepburn's life, died September 3 at his home in North Wales. He was 97.
Routine stuff. Until the Audrey Hepburn part.
http://www.onofframp.blogspot.com/
I was probably going to read this obituary just based on the individual's age. Being 97 in 2010 puts you way back there. And there's little I like to do more than think about all that went on in a life that spanned nearly 100 years. But the fine tuned lead by William Grimes clinched it:
Michael Burn, a British journalist and author whose eventful life included an early flirtation with Nazism: a daring commando raid on the fortified port of St. Nazaire, France; an imprisonment in Colditz Castle; a love affair with the British spy Guy Burgess; and a timely intervention in the aftermath of World War II that saved Audrey Hepburn's life, died September 3 at his home in North Wales. He was 97.
Routine stuff. Until the Audrey Hepburn part.
http://www.onofframp.blogspot.com/
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