The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant is the 1968 autobiography of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, adapted into a 1975 film of the same name starring John Hurt. The book began as a 1964 radio interview with Crisp conducted by his friend and fellow eccentric Philip O'Connor. A managing director at Jonathan Cape heard the interview and commissioned the publication. Having sold only 3,500 copies when first released, the book became a success when it was republished following the television movie broadcast. The book contains many anecdotes about Crisp's life from childhood to middle age, including troubles
Alan Prince (civil servant) quality tooth fillings and a less expensive manufacturing method for bone china by encouraging the study of "phase equilibrium" of calcium, a process used to create tricalcium phosphate. Alan Prince (civil servant) Alan Prince (February 15, 1915 – October 2, 2015) was a Canadian civil servant and scientist who served as the Director of the Atomic Energy Control Board, now called the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), from 1975 to 1978. Prince oversaw the response and clean-up Kosmos 954, a Soviet nuclear powered reconnaissance satellite which broke up over western Canada on January 24, 1978, spreading radioactive debris over an