Hints and tips:
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...Guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi remain masters of the style, rattling out the brusque, catchy chords of “Meet Me in the Bathroom” and the spangling fretwork of “Soma” with equal aplomb....
...another great American, Albert Einstein....
...When her father George VI died in February 1952, the code had been “Hyde Park Corner”....
...Albert Roux & Michel Roux Jr Albert and his brother, the late Michel Roux Sr, opened Le Gavroche in Mayfair in 1981. It went on to become the first UK restaurant with three Michelin stars....
...George Floyd would be born five years later. ★★★★★ On Netflix from Friday June 12...
...HW Bush and George W Bush....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
...The new entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum is named the Blavatnik Hall. A $200m donation to Harvard Medical School last year set up the Blavatnik Institute....
...He became vice-president of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage in 1913, writing to MP and suffragist George Lansbury to reinforce his support....
...Well, apart from Reginald Maudling, of course, but, look, that was years ago and we’ve tightened up a lot since then....
...Guests at Sagard have included former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former US President George H.W. Bush....
...So, to Glenn Close playing her beloved (and Oscar-nominated) Albert Nobbs – a woman whose bid to survive penury prompts her to disguise herself as a male waiter at a small hotel in 19th-century Dublin....
...Marquand, who died in 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for The Late George Apley....
...In the late 1960s, he moved to Manhattan to become Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities at the City University of New York....
...Michael Ball’s BBC Prom is at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday August 27. ‘Hairspray’ previews at the Shaftesbury Theatre from October 11, opening night October 30....
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