Hints and tips:
...Bookie Alfie McLean, bulky, blotchy, unyielding, sits flanked by his lean, wary son in “Two Irishmen in W11”, before a vista of the capital’s terraces and tower blocks....
...Just to pour a bit more controversy over the Conservative Renewal conference (where Tim Loughton made his comments about Sarah Teather) Robert McLean, the chair of the Windsor Conservative Association, was...
...Alive: New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Willis, NYRB Poets, RRP£9.99/$14 The US poet has a gift for achieving poignancy through juxtaposition and a deceptively light touch....
...The first ship, the Ideal X, set off in April 1956, carrying 58 containers and a load of oil from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Houston, Texas....
...And the large diamond given to Elizabeth Taylor by Richard Burton may be extremely beautiful – but, well, that couple was divorced not once but twice....
...Ray Davies, the founder and frontman of British 1960s rock band The Kinks, will perform some of the band’s top hits alongside artists such as Don McLean, who wrote the 1970s classic “American Pie”....
...Between 1955 and 1966, New York City spent well over $1bn in today’s money to reconstruct piers and halt the flight of ship lines to the New Jersey ports at Newark and Elizabeth....
...But it is an acquired taste, and although McLean’s sticker price has been going up, I don’t believe this one will ever have popular appeal.”...
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