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Wintour biography
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Simon & Schuster
In , when Amy Odell set out to write the definitive biography of Anna Wintour, she was met with mixed reactions. “Some people told me, ‘You’re not going be able to do this,’” she recalls. “‘Condé Nast is going to shut you down. She’s going to shut you down.’But other people said, ‘I think she’s going to help you; don’t worry.’It was interesting to get both of these perspectives early in the game.”
Ultimately, what transpired was something in between. Wintour declined multiple requests to be interviewed, but she did seem to give her blessing to those in her inner circle to participate — the next best thing to an A.W.O.K. (which stands for “Anna Wintour okay,” a stamp of approval on staffers’ work).
The result is a stunningly thorough, balanced, humanizing portrait of the most powerful woman working in fashion, and one of the most powerful business leaders in America. Of course, it chronicles every time she
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Repco Holden F engine fitted to an Elfin MR5, date and place unknown, I suspect the wing has been airbrushed blue to obliterate the white/red Ansett logo which would have been there (Repco)
The progressive conclusion of the very successful business relationship between Repco and Jack Brabham throughout led to another race winning Repco schema with General Motors Holden, an F V8 which first raced in &#;
Common elements of both programs were the Tasman litre Formula and engineer Phil Irving.
Jack Brabham&#;s brainchild for a cost effective competitive engine to replace the ageing Coventry Climax FPF in Tasman Formula racing- the General Motors F85 Oldsmobile based Repco Brabham RB V8 was designed and drawn by Phil Irving and then adapted for rather successful 3 litre F1 use.
The end of the Tasman Formula, the need for Repco to replace the Repco Brabham Engines Pty. Ltd. program with another promotional tool, the selection of Formula as the new Australian National Formula 1,
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Ken Richardson in Rex Taylor’s Talbot-Lago T26C, rounds a corner on the Southport road course- Queensland’s Gold Coast, 6 November &#;
The event was the mile Queensland Road Racing Championship, sometimes referred to as the Queensland Grand Prix, the second and final occasion on which the challenging layout was used for car racing- there is a bit about the mile track in this piece on the Australian Grand Prix here;
Amongst the favourites for victory were Lex Davison, aboard the same HWM Jaguar in which he won the AGP twelve months before and Jack Brabham in the Cooper T40 Bristol in which he took a fortunate victory at the AGP at Port Wakefield, South Australia several weeks before, on 10 October.
Other contenders were Richardson, who was third at Southport in his Ford V8 Special the year before, this time he raced the dual AGP winning Talbot-Lago acquired by Rex Taylor from Doug Whiteford in mid Queensland youngster, Steve Ames aka Count Stephen Ouvaroff was aboard the ex