I travelled to Jersey to see Alan Whicker in a small, noisy plane operated by British European Airlines, but might just as well have made my way there in a Tardis. For Jersey, home of secretive ...
Marion Whicker recently tapped into her Midwest roots. The executive deputy to the commanding general at the U.S. Army Materiel Command did so at the Joint Munitions Command’s headquarters on Arsenal ...
In a 1969 television documentary about Haiti, Alan Whicker, who has died aged 87, asked the notorious dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier, in kindly, innocently interested and rather baffled tones: “But Papa ...
With viewers currently flocking to watch veteran presenters, from Bruce Forsyth to Sir David Attenborough, it is hardly surprising that BBC2 has rushed to commission the pioneer of the personality-led ...
The month of March spans 744 hours and each one of them encompass National Women’s History Month. In 1987, Congress designated March as National Women's History Month indefinitely. Each year, a ...
Whicker quietly showed that money can’t buy style or happines by letting the ex-boxer married to a Miss World reveal his short fuse, violent vocabulary and talk about his ex-wife’s suicide and ...
For Rex Whicker, former owner of Le Chat Noir Wines & Spirits on Tulip Avenue and longtime host of “Uncorked” on Four Village Studio, the joy of wine isn’t about prestige — it’s about pleasure. “The ...
For Rex Whicker, every bottle of wine tells a story — one that’s meant to be shared, savored and enjoyed. “Life’s too short to drink bad wine,” he said, suggesting that he’s lived by those words for ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British broadcaster and journalist Alan Whicker, whose career spanned five decades and whose clipped delivery style was parodied by Monty Python, died on Friday at the age ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Presenter, author and journalist Alan Whicker is 80 years old on Tuesday. The doyen of jet set journalists, he was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1925, the son of a professional soldier. He returned to the ...
One of the medium’s first celebrities, he was often described as a “travel journalist” on account of his many reports from exotic locations. But he preferred to call himself “a journalist who travels” ...