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...Johnson & Johnson, the US group that manufactures benadryl, a hay fever remedy, found that people were forming obscene words by dropping pins on a map supposed to show areas of high pollen count....
...SH southwarkplayhouse.co.uk, 020 7407 0234, to May 30 … Hay Fever, Duke of York’s Theatre, London Felicity Kendal stars in Lindsay Posner’s revival of Noël Coward’s comedy about the eccentric Bliss family...
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
...He evokes an age of progress and fantasy – untroubled by decimal currency or mobile phones, yet no longer benumbed by what prime minister Harold Wilson called the “chill frost” of the establishment....
...For example, a 1920 Harold Lloyd comic short called Get Out and Get Under is a series of gags about a young man whose car won’t start....
...Harold Macmillan, another Old Etonian prime minister, liked to busk the workload so he could while away the hours in his armoury of West End clubs....
...I was due at the Hay Festival for the June paperback publication of My Paper Chase....
...he was successively a member of the Fitzroy, Camden Town, London and Cumberland Market Groups of artists, the last of which was a small club of friends based in Bevan’s studios overlooking London’s main hay...
...Goodwin quotes his secretary John Hay: “It is absurd to call him a modest man. No great man was ever modest....
...Sickert apart, this show consists of a dilute cocktail of British art at its most imitative: rooms full of earnest, well-meaning, post-post-impressionist cityscapes and interiors by Spencer Gore, Harold...
...“We felt it was the right time to take another look at Poiret,” said Harold Koda, head of the museum’s costume institute, explaining the decision to mount the exhibit....
...There was Harold Wilson’s triumph in a spring election that left Labourwith a substantial Commonsmajority. This was also the year in which Time magazine declared London to be a swinging city....
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