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- <text id=89TT0599>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: Died:James Bond
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 69
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- <p> DIED. James Bond, 89, American ornithologist whose name Ian
- Fleming borrowed in 1952 to christen his secret agent 007; in
- Philadelphia. Bond's book Birds of the West Indies was Fleming's
- breakfast-table reading when he lived in Jamaica and began
- writing Casino Royale, the first of the 007 capers. In baptizing
- his hero, Fleming later wrote, "It struck me that this name,
- brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I
- needed."
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- </body></article>
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