Talbot Duckmanton
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Sir Talbot Duckmanton (? - 1995) was General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1965 until 1982.
He was educated at Newington College, Sydney, and began his career as a cadet journalist at the ABC in Brisbane in 1939 and from 1952 until 1954 was the Assistant Manager of the Brisbane office.
It was rumoured that Sir Talbot Duckmanton was responsible for choosing the ABC PO.box number of 9994 in recognition of Sir Don Bradman's batting average of 99.94
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