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'''Daniel Negley Farson''' (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) a British writer and broadcaster, was a popular television personality and prominent public figure in the late 1950s and early 1960s. | '''Daniel Negley Farson''' (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) a British writer and broadcaster, was a popular television personality and prominent public figure in the late 1950s and early 1960s. | ||
Born in Kensington, London, the son of the American journalist Negley Farson, his childhood was mostly divided between Britain and North America. He visited Germany with his father while Negley was reporting on the Nazi regime, and was patted on the head by Adolf Hitler, who described him as a "good Aryan boy". He briefly attended the British public school Wellington College, whose militaristic regime was not to his taste; Farson had become intensely aware of his homosexuality, which would sporadically cause him great emotional strain. As a teenager he worked as a parliamentary correspondent, and was pursued in the House of Commons by the predatory Labour Member of Parliament Tom Driberg. | |||
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Daniel Negley Farson (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) a British writer and broadcaster, was a popular television personality and prominent public figure in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Born in Kensington, London, the son of the American journalist Negley Farson, his childhood was mostly divided between Britain and North America. He visited Germany with his father while Negley was reporting on the Nazi regime, and was patted on the head by Adolf Hitler, who described him as a "good Aryan boy". He briefly attended the British public school Wellington College, whose militaristic regime was not to his taste; Farson had become intensely aware of his homosexuality, which would sporadically cause him great emotional strain. As a teenager he worked as a parliamentary correspondent, and was pursued in the House of Commons by the predatory Labour Member of Parliament Tom Driberg.