More thrills than skills – A half-life in journalism, part 69

Over the next few weeks, allmediascotland.com is to publish, each weekday, edited extracts from the memoirs of Scottish war correspondent, Paul Harris. ‘More thrills than skills: A half-life in journalism’, is being scheduled for publication next year.

THESE days, such books are ten a penny but, in the mid-1970s, this was still controversial and highly original publishing.

I encouraged Tuppy to rewrite it for the British market with a new title, Take Me I’m Yours: A Guide to Feminine Psychology.

The brilliant title came to me in the bath one day as a tune with the lilting line ‘take me I’m yours’ came over on the radio.

This was, of course, long before the days political correctness intruded upon the scene.

Tuppy did a good job with it and we went off to Frankfurt to the Book Fair and proceeded to whip up enthusiasm for the book.