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Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...
Taja Sevelle (born Nancy Richardson January 7, 1962) [1] is an American singer, best known for her 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious", [2] and for the non-profit organization Urban Farming, which she founded in 2005.
Anne Killigrew may be a younger poet of lesser skill than Dryden, but she shares Dryden's "operative ethic". Seen in this light, as an "ethically sensitive poet", who was "a member of the community whose goals he sought to serve, she merited and received his best effort".
The Best House in London is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Philip Saville and starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell, John Bird, Maurice Denham and Bill Fraser. [2] [3] It was written by Dennis Norden.
Good News Bible (GNB), also called the Good News Translation (GNT) in the United States, is an English translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society. It was first published as the New Testament under the name Good News for Modern Man in 1966.
Eric Pohlmann (born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) best known for his work in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (film) and Thunderball (film). Ruth Posner (née Wajsberg; born 20 April 1933) is a Polish Jewish born British dancer, choreographer , actress former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company .
During World War II, while vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Lee, London (1940-44), [1] he found the young people in his church did not understand the Authorised Version of the Bible. He used the time in the bomb shelters during the London Blitz to begin a translation of the New Testament into modern English , starting with the ...
Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland, and educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart.His father died when he was young and he was sent to an orphanage. [2]At the universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin, [1] he was successively influenced by Ferdinand Christian Baur and Schmid, by Friedrich August Tholuck and Julius Müller, by David Strauss and, above all, Johann August Wilhelm Neander. [3]