"Bowie had to overcome a king, two queens and a political heavyweight to triumph in our poll, and in doing so has struck a blow for 20th and 21st-century fashions," editor Rob Attar said.
But his triumph in 1953 did constitute a brush with literary immortality that must have been deeply satisfying.
The coming out party for Gig-It, a Facebook music game that allows fans to throw virtual concerts featuring real-life artists, followed that same formula on Tuesday night in New York, but triumphed by doing so in such a full-throated manner that some attendees actually started screaming repeatedly throughout the night.
Charlie triumphs in Roald's book not by doing anything virtuous; he is merely the only kid who fails in doing something bad.
He could move on in triumph, job done – and he did, to help another struggling media cause via the Radio Marketing Bureau before retiring quietly to an Oxfordshire village with his wife, Audrey.
There's no way to know if Federer's hot streak will carry into 2012 because his triumph in London last year didn't seem to help him gather momentum last season, but Federer fans can take comfort in the fact that he isn't fading away.
Great Ratings For The Olympics Won't Stick 02.12.02 NBC has a triumph in Salt Lake City, but don't look for a repeat performance in China.
Olympics Ratings Won't Stick 02.12.02 NBC has a triumph in Salt Lake City, but don't look for a repeat performance in Italy.
It is this form that led BBC Sport columnist Robbie Savage to warn that City risk repeating the mistakes they made under Roberto Mancini, when they failed to improve their squad following their title triumph in 2012 and did not retain their crown.
At 21, Sidney Crosby believed anything was possible for him and the Pittsburgh Penguins, that he would have a chance to end every NHL season by lifting the Stanley Cup in sweaty, joyful triumph, as he did in 2009.
Derby-winning trainer Michael Bell, to whom Turner was apprenticed at the start of the pair's 13-year association – the pinnacle being the triumph of Margot Did in the 2011 Group One Nunthorpe Stakes – once deemed her as good a rider as any man.
