Managing a "Gentlemen's Club"
Managing a "Gentlemen's Club" By Monique Berlioux Seven gentlemen and In 1964., I published a book on the history of the Olympic the destiny of Bovril, and the Hyde Park Hotel in which a female d irector-the Games, entitled O lym pica. Three years later I began to we found ourselves belonged to him. He was a man of first meeting of the ioc think about turning it into a screenplay. I realized that I average height, solidly built, with an engaging smile, Executive Committee would need backing, and at the very least, a producer, and bushy eyebrows which protected a flickering gaze. under President Lord I spoke to my friend Myriam Meuwly, who worked Then there was Heinz Schobel, from the German Killaninon2nflFebruary as a bi-lingual secretary for International Olympic Democratic Republic, a communist and a 'anti-Nazi'. 1973 (left to right): Committee (IOC), and w as editor o f the O lym pic Bulletin. His face, like his body, was nervous and emaciated. He PrinceTakeda,Juan She advised me to write to Lord Killanin, Member was accompanied by a translator. Antonio Samaranch, of the IOC for Ireland since 1952. He had just been Count Jean de Beaumont was the fourth member of Konstantin Andrianov, nominated as Chairman of the IOC's newly created Press the commission. Unfortunately, he wasn't present. Countde Beaumont, Commission. He immediately invited me to a meeting I had pinned all my hopes on my compatriot, and he Lord Killanin, Herman of his commission in London. h ad n 't co m e ..
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