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Never met her, but I did correspond professionally with her husband, Paul du Feu. (As the newest journalist, and the only one on the mag who hadn't already told him 'No chance', I was given the job of signing his rejections.) He was a character, the first nude cover model for Cosmo UK, and briefly married to Germaine Greer.
 

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