It includes signatures and messages from The Beatles, lawyer and writer John Mortimer, playwright and songwriter Noel Coward and US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe among others.

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Clifford Mortimer was blinded when John was 13, yet continued his law practice and his life as though nothing had happened.

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Even as the bailouts had begun, a global conference months in the making was held on September 8th at the University of Virginia, convened by former Treasury secretary John Snow and named for former Internal Revenue commissioner Mortimer Caplin.

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