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* InMemoriam: Both the 23 November 1963 and 28 December 1963 episodes featured tributes to assassinated US President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy; in the latter episode, actor Robert Lang recited a poem referencing other figures in British and world politics, entertainment, and the arts who had died in 1963.[[note]] These included French singer Music/EdithPiaf, French writer and filmmaker Creator/JeanCocteau, Pope John XXIII, cricketer Jack Hobbs, singer Mike Holliday, newspaper editor Arthur Christiansen, writer Creator/AldousHuxley, American writer Robert Frost, Irish writer Louis [=MacNeice=], French painter Georges Braque, automaker William Morris (elevated to the peerage as Lord Nuffield), Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, Welsh doctor Horace, Lord Evans (doctor to the Royal Family), American columnist and hostess Elsa Maxwell, New Zealand-born cartoonist David Low (creator of Colonel Blimp), French actor Adolphe Menjou, Cambridge spy Guy Burgess, osteopath Stephen Ward (who introduced Christine Keeler to John Profumo), and finally John F. Kennedy.[[/note]]

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* InMemoriam: Both the 23 November 1963 and 28 December 1963 episodes featured tributes to assassinated US President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy; in the latter episode, actor Robert Lang recited a poem referencing other figures in British and world politics, entertainment, and the arts who had died in 1963.[[note]] These included French singer Music/EdithPiaf, French writer and filmmaker Creator/JeanCocteau, [[UsefulNotes/NotablePopes Pope John XXIII, XXIII]], cricketer Jack Hobbs, singer Mike Holliday, newspaper editor Arthur Christiansen, writer Creator/AldousHuxley, American writer Robert Frost, Irish writer Louis [=MacNeice=], French painter Georges Braque, automaker William Morris (elevated to the peerage as Lord Nuffield), Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, Welsh doctor Horace, Lord Evans (doctor to the Royal Family), American columnist and hostess Elsa Maxwell, New Zealand-born cartoonist David Low (creator of Colonel Blimp), French actor Adolphe Menjou, Cambridge spy Guy Burgess, osteopath Stephen Ward (who introduced Christine Keeler to John Profumo), and finally John F. Kennedy.[[/note]]

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