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George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Silver gelatin print by The Sun, dated 14 October 1967. Image shows actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor disembarking their private jet at the RAF station in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, having flown in from Sardinia fir the Oxford premiere of their film, "Dr. Faustus". The newspaper cutting on verso mentions that the jet was a gift from Burton to his wife. They were met at the airfield by "20 photographers, 11 chauffeurs, four Rolls-Roycesa, and a quartet of Columbia Pictures employees".

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton arrive in UK on private jet

14 October 1967

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