I-Spy books were linked with a newspaper (??Daily Mail when it was a broadsheet) and there really was a Big Chief I-Spy who thought up the whole idea. He got obits in the nationals when he died, I seem to remember. I belong to the 'had a book once but never finished it' brigade but I'm old & I went to Durham
The first says it started with the News Chronicle, and then moved to The Daily Mail. The second link has the chronology in the reverse order. More noticably, they credit different people with actually being Big Chief I-Spy.
Maybe I ought to ask my mother if she's still got any of mine.
"I-spy Computer Hardware" anybody? Double points for a PDP-8!
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Date: 2004-01-06 03:04 pm (UTC)I belong to the 'had a book once but never finished it' brigade but I'm old & I went to Durham
Controversy!
Date: 2004-01-06 04:26 pm (UTC)The first says it started with the News Chronicle, and then moved to The Daily Mail. The second link has the chronology in the reverse order. More noticably, they credit different people with actually being Big Chief I-Spy.
Maybe I ought to ask my mother if she's still got any of mine.
"I-spy Computer Hardware" anybody? Double points for a PDP-8!