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Anne Sharpley (1928-1989) was an English journalist. In the 1940s, she attended art school in York. While there, she won a Vogue magazine competition, which led to a career in journalism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anne Sharpley )〕 During the 1960s, she was an investigative reporter with London's Evening Standard.〔 She was known for scooping other reporters with her account of Winston Churchill's funeral, by vandalising a telephone after filing it, thereby delaying her rivals' reports. She reputedly told Ann Leslie that a female foreign correspondent should: She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 2 January 1967. Six photographs of her, five in a 1961 series by Ida Kar and one from 1965, by Jorge Lewinski, are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.〔 A memorial to her, in the form of a planted urn on a stone plinth, stands in St John's Lodge Garden, Regent's Park, London. The plinth is inscribed with the words:〔See photograph at: 〕 William Stevenson described how she was nicknamed "Shapley Sharpley" by Randolph Churchill. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Sharpley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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