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...This is true for generations of Pitcairners, several of whom are in the island’s cemetery (John Adams has a separate plot)....
...The house has dressed well-heeled gentlemen and Hollywood royalty such as John Wayne, Clark Gable and, latterly, Brad Pitt....
...“Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jim Morrison — they all copied Dylan. And when that happened, he moved on pretty sharpish.”...
...The Coral Gables, Florida-based company started trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Tuesday, a day after completing a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company called Lionheart Acquisition...
...(I just finished John Grisham’s The Judge’s List and am now reading Philip McCutchan’s The Man from Moscow.) Or I’ll catch up on some TV....
...Margaret had been the teacher at the village school, with 28 children on her roll at one point, while her husband John ran the local post office from their house....
...They prefer a hole in the gable of our neighbour’s house, which has received no official endorsement from the UK’s largest conservation charity. This is poor form on their part, I feel....
...The brand was innovative also in forging early relationships with Hollywood and recognising the power of celebrity, dressing Clark Gable and John Wayne in the ’50s, and later Pierce Brosnan, long before...
...But Hollywood failed to appreciate her, and she made one inconsequential movie after another — Boy on a Dolphin with Alan Ladd, Legend of the Lost with John Wayne, It Started in Naples with Clark Gable —...
...Within 18 months of shooting, two of its stars, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe — both symbols of Hollywood’s Golden Age — would be dead....
...Why “Brandy Castle” was built for the wine and spirits merchant John Aiken....
...Even master minimalist architect John Pawson has succumbed to bucolic charm, having completed his second home in the Cotswolds at the end of 2019 – a conversion of rambling buildings that saw an old cottage...
...It is the translucent cladding of a parking garage, covered with a vast print called “Fun 1” by the contemporary artist John Baldessari....
...He reckoned to have daubed 20,000 barns in his career, many since demolished, though a gable is displayed in the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati....
...Ashton’s Two Pigeons, first danced by Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable in 1961, is an unashamedly sentimental tale of love in a garret, a raggle-taggle gypsy encampment and snow white turtle doves....
...Their destination was an elegant building of carved stone and red brick, with a Dutch gable and an entrance flanked by Doric columns. Stanfords is more than a map shop, it is a cartographic shrine....
...It’s where both John Belushi and Helmut Newton died. “The Chateau captures almost any moment in time going back to 1927,” says Balazs. “It has its own culture.”...
...The earliest known card from the 1840s shows a church gable in a snowdrift, from a rustic interior with a hearth, holly and plum-pie....
...One afternoon he found himself in the arcaded glass-roofed courtyard of the Villa Vizcaya, a half-hour drive from Miami Beach in the district of Coral Gables....
...“There’s a pair of bald eagles nesting up there,” pointed John. “Bald eagles?” I repeated, impressed. The locals looked at me, bemused....
...John Lennon was also a resident. It was here, just outside the building, where he was shot dead by Mark Chapman in 1980. Yoko Ono still lives in the apartment she shared with her husband....
...John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s Latin America editor Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Yet the greatest prize may well be the splendid, unfettered perspective of the abbey’s interior, which John Betjeman thought the best view in Europe....
...That looks like a nod to a shareholder proposal to be voted on at Citi’s annual meeting in Coral Gables, Florida, on Tuesday....
...When I first met him three years ago he was with the prime minister of Haiti, dressed in an immaculate suit and looking like Clark Gable....
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