Tales of daring do. The Medium Mark A Whippet was to see its first combat on the 26th of March 1918 at Mailly-Maillet, north of Albert, France. It had been considered to send Whippets to the Army in Palestine too but that didnât happen.
And this is before Tess read The Secret.â. Tess, of course, is Tess Daly, the lovely co-host of Strictly Come Dancing, Vernonâs wife of 11 years and the mother of their two daughters, Phoebe, nine, and Amber, four.
Her parents divorced during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, whom she barely references and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir, One from the Hart, in which she refers to the tension and unhappiness created by my father's presence.tefanie Powers had an elder brother, Jeffrey Julian Paul (1940â2013), as well as a half-sister, Charlene Groman. Powers was a cheerleader at Hollywood High School; one of her schoolmates was Nancy Sinatra. In 1965, using the alias Taffy Paul, she made an obscure independent film, The Young Sinner.