Wright was grateful to his most loyal fan, and designed a bed for her and her husband, Carl Norcross, an authority on town planning.

ECONOMIST: Elizabeth Gordon

The Duke of Norfolk, an Irish itinerant, a Marxist priest in Latin America, an African exorciser and an Untouchable worshipper in a Catholic ashram may not be natural bed-fellows, but they all accept the truth of transubstantiation and acknowledge the authority of Rome.

ECONOMIST: The Roman Catholic church