All the glamour and excitement of the connection with Fleming and James Bond evaporates.
Beretta is known for its handguns, thanks in part to Ian Fleming, who equipped James Bond with one of its pistols in his early books, and in part to the adoption of the Beretta 92 pistol by America's armed forces and many law-enforcement agencies.
Captain Matthew Fleming and off-spinner James Tredwell profited with two wickets each.
And because, like Ian Fleming's antihero, James Bond (the mean-spirited book version, not the amusing movie one), Gillette engages us with his enviable panache and awesome courage.
This 18-acre Oracabessa, Jamaica, retreat is where writer Ian Fleming penned 14 of his James Bond novels, and the thatched-roof villas are named after some of the fictional spy's love interests.
The Bahamas are bursting with Bond history: Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, lived on the islands, and Sean Connery, perhaps the most famous actor to play Bond, had a home there too.
The book, also called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was written by James Bond author Ian Fleming in 1961, while he was recovering from a heart attack.
Ian Fleming may own the copyrights to the original James Bond novels, but not the idea of a dashing international spy fighting super-villains with gadgets and glib remarks.
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Fleming once told a San Francisco Examiner columnist that James Bond always had lunch there, sitting in a corner table to watch the pretty girls.
Fictional superspy James Bond was made a CMG in Ian Fleming's novel From Russia With Love.
It was an appropriate choice, as it was Fleming who was to mythologise the new relationship in his James Bond novels.
But Silva was eventually tempted into playing at a ball from left-armer James Franklin which was angled across him and Fleming made no mistake at slip.
"It sends a very scary message to all the chaebol owners that 'This could happen to you, '" says James Han, a financial analyst at Jardine Fleming Securities in Seoul.
The mid-1960s were awash in Bond parodies in the cinema and on network television, with films like Our Man Flint and the original Casino Royale (a parody of Fleming's novel that starred David Niven as Bond and Woody Allen as James Bond's nephew) in 1966 and 1967.
"It is estimated that over half the world's population have heard of James Bond which is an incredible testament to the imagination of his creator, Ian Fleming, " said Julietta Edgar, the Royal Mail's head of special stamps.
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