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An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
Writer
Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
Sometimes
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Ambition
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Directors
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Tea
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Anyone
Kissing

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