When she began to write, shortly after the war had ended, it was hard to get hold of cream, let alone capers.

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After graduating from RADA, she acted in TV, film and radio productions, but then left the UK and headed to New York where she began to write food articles as a way of supplementing her income.

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Encouraged by the Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok, her loving confidante, she began to write a daily newspaper column, hold frequent press conferences, and speak out, at home and in public, for the poor, for the oppressed, and for the unlucky.

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She and Wright began to work on the musical but she still wanted to find the perfect collaborator to write the music.

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