Deighton
Britishnoun
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Katie Deighton is a reporter covering marketing, advertising, customer experience and product design for the WSJ Leadership Institute’s CMO Today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Keating once told the BBC, adding: “And at the other extreme is Len Deighton using the spy story to say things about people and about the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Deighton once credited the success of “The Ipcress File,” his debut novel, to the fact that critics “used me as a blunt instrument to beat Ian Fleming over the head.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
But Deighton insisted the his character was no anti-hero and he was not going to pepper his books with violence, as Fleming had done.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
For Mr. Deighton he had conceived a personal liking, mingled with a wondering and contemptuous pity.
From The Tapu Of Banderah 1901 by Becke, Louis
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