Conservative Communities Secretary Eric Pickles called the Croydon North MP "a man of great wit and humanity".

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Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he was "very sad" to learn of the death of Mr Wicks, who he described as "a man of great wit and humanity".

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Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.

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Captain Douglas Brain, who was with Sapper Smith at the time of the incident, paid tribute to "a man who truly lived life to the full, with an unrivalled wit and a wicked sense of humour".

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Well, in a sense, he had written him, as Falstaff, the man of appetite and wit who sees through the game of honor and fidelity.

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"Death of a Salesman" later beat out "Gore Vidal's The Best Man, " "Master Class" and "Wit" for the best revival of a play.

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