Power couple

Here's a nice detail from the profile of Matthew Freud and Elizabeth Murdoch by John Harris:

after a stint as a press officer at the record label RCA, Freud was introduced by his father to the spoon-bender, Uri Geller, and the pair came up with a lucrative wheeze: convincing an Australian mining company to pay Geller £250,000 to dowse for gold. Freud took 10%, and he was off...