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Cocktails with Molotov and Tea with Mr. Lee - Bernard Brown Historical Fashion illustration: Contemporary Haute CoutureBernard Brown lived through WW2 in Suffolk, England, where he was strafed by bullets from a German Dornier aeroplane; dived to fetch sculpturing clay for a young Lucian Freud; went to school with the notorious gangsters the Kray brothers; and had a close encounter with the Jimmy Savile of the era, 'Uncle Mac' at the BBC. As a young man he met with Margaret Thatcher, and later with famous authors such as Anthony Burgess, and Han Suyin (author of Love