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If your dreams come true, you better have dreamed wisely. Working class Viv Nicholson won millions in a football pool in 1961 and found herself isolated the way billionaires sometimes are. Did she spend, spend, spend herself back into modest financial means because of a poor foundation in economics or was she driven by survival instincts?
From a 1966 interview with Nicholson by Alan Whicker:
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Alan Whicker’s mesmerizing 1969 film about Haiti’s witch doctor of a dictator, François “Papa Doc” Duvalier.
Alan Whicker interviews Lula Parker Betenson, the 94-year-old sister of Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, in 1978, two years before her death. This line about Cassidy’s devout Mormon ancestors stays with me: “Drawn towards the mecca of their religion, they sailed from Liverpool in 1856 and walked the 1300 miles from Iowa to Salt Lake City.”