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Francis Claud Cockburn ( / ˈkoʊbərn / KOH-bərn; 12 April 1904 – 15 December 1981) was a British journalist. His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, [1] [2] [3] but he did not claim credit for originating it. [4] He was the second cousin, once removed, of the novelists Alec ...
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Dec 16, 1981 · Claud Cockburn, a British journalist and social critic whose lively style made him something of a cult figure on the British political left, died yesterday at St. Sinbarr's Hospital in Cork, Ireland.
Claud Cockburn was a journalistic legend: a swashbuckling iconoclast with a taste for whisky and radical politics. Now, intelligence files discovered by his son, Patrick Cockburn, reveal how ...
Claud Cockburn; December 1973 Issue; News for the Million. ClAUD COCKBURN is a friend and contemporary of Graham Greene, and for a time they both attended a school run by Graham Greene‘s father.
May 31, 2023 · Francis Claud Cockburn ( April 12 1904 – December 15 1981) was an influential left-wing English journalist; also a novelist, short-story writer and autobiographer. His many pseudonyms include Frank Pitcairn and James Helvick . This article on an author is a . You can help Wikiquote by .
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Claud Cockburn was a noted British radical journalist. He was born in Peking, China, in 1904, and was the scion of an aristocratic family; one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered the burning of the White House during the War of 1812. His cousin was the novelist Evelyn Waugh, but Cockburn's own political sympathies ran to the ...
