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...Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark...
...The hotel is soaked in LA mythology: it’s the hang-out where Gore Vidal wrote Myra Breckinridge. It’s where Jean Harlow had a wild affair with Clark Gable in 1933....
...One painting a month was brought up from underground storage in north Wales and Clark invited the pianist Myra Hess to give her now legendary series of lunchtime recitals....
...In the 1940s he sustained wartime morale with Myra Hess’s lunchtime piano concerts: recordings enliven this show....
...“Say what you like about [child-murderer] Myra Hindley,” claims Raymond, très Alan, “she was a looker.” How like or unlike the real Raymond is he even trying to be?...
...Kovacevich moved to London in 1959, aged 18, to study with Dame Myra Hess, who taught him the value of creating a spectrum of sound – “not just accurate and fast, which can be monotonous”....
...Myra Hart, professor of management practice at HBS, says that many women used the programme – which is called New Path – as a confidence booster....
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