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Peter B Buckley of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA, lords it over us with this celebrity encounter (C8): “In 1961, my father and I were staying at the Savoy in London when there was a knock on the door. It was the hotel manager who informed him that our bath had overflowed and flooded the suite below. After finding out the room where the affected people had been moved to, we went down to apologise and present a bottle of champagne as a peace offering, as it were. My father knocked on the door, and as it opened, he…

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