He was noticed while the flight was in the air and sent back home when the plane returned to England, Greenway said.

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He was born Kazimierz Jerzy Goldfarb, a Polish Jew, who was sent to a summer school in England in 1939, leaving behind his mother and a sister who died in Treblinka, and a father he never saw again.

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However, in 1977 he was sent to Pakistan and also to his beloved New Zealand to cover the England cricket tour.

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