HATS ON OFFER

... far, no-one has picked a hat coating more than £l4. `Parkinson's Law' The guest speaker in tonight's 8.8. C. TV Press Conference will be Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson, author of Parkinson's Law. ...

Published: Friday 05 August 1960
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

ON PAPER: PARKINSON

... PAPER: PARKINSON THAT law man C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson. has a new book; out next week. Nothing to do with laws. It is called The Life And Times Of Horatio Hornblower and it is a fan's tribute to that heroic (and fictional) sailor. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 100 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

CNorthcote Parkinson

... CNorthcote Parkinson Cyril Northcote Parkinson, prolific author and inventor of Parkinson’s Law—which holds that lall work expands to fill the time available for its completion—has died, aged 83. In NMemo i ETER SHERRE] MR E S C gl ) B LR 7 ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1993
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Waiting

... B M C factories on, Monday. B M C hope to be backto normal by Wednesday. Parkinson, of Parkinson's Law, quits Liberals PROFESSOR Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the author of Parkinson's Law, has resigned from the ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1967
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 155 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... couture; 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak statesman and minister; 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson’s Law; 1969 Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flyweight world champion from 1916 to 1923; 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1995
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... couture; 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak statesman and minister; 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson’s Law, 1969 Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flgwcigm world champion from 1916 to 1923; 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

week off

... Pavlova or Pizza and I have to dash to the super market just as I do on a working week. There's no doubt about it. Cyril Northcote Parkinson was right when he said: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Bei Iy . Lowry liiT. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1970
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 195 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Jimmie Macgregor: 70 today

... er and composer; 1915 Sir Charles Groves, conductor. Deaths: 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson’s Law; 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield, spymaster; 1984 Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, politician; 1986 ...

Published: Friday 10 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

D p you know what Parkinson's Law is? Do you know who Parkinson is? No one seems to have been

... civil servants upon their backs . . . and so ad infinitum. Now Mr. Parkinson is revealed as Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a Durham man who t holds the Raffles Chair of History Just two instances. He reveals in the University of Malaya, a man ! ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1958
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE former Liverpool University academic who devised Parkinson's Law which says work expands so as to fill the ..

... Liverpool University academic who devised Parkinson's Law which says work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion has died aged 83. Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who _published Parkinson's Law In 1958, died In a ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1993
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: 7 | Tags: none