Articles...
Nov 15 2007
IN HER first death, the young nurse and sweetheart of the world’s most famous doctor was responsible for wetting the handkerchiefs of millions by issuing words so unlikely and sentimental that you could even imagine the syrup retreating into the tin....
Nov 13 2007
HE COULD never quite decide whether he should have been punching faces or typewriter keys, so he devoted considerable energy to both....
Nov 12 2007
TWO defining seafaring events – in the English Channel and the Falklands War – followed in quick succession for Capt Christopher Smith, who has died aged 70 of heart disease. He was also an HMS Conway cadet aboard the famous wooden training ship when she was wrecked en route from the Menai Straits to Birkenhead....
Nov 9 2007
HIS ancestors were among the Mormon pioneers who trekked across the Utah desert to found Salt Lake City but, in a later age, the man himself was responsible for making us all feel dentally challenged....
Nov 8 2007
SHE could have been in a picture-book, the sort of brown-eyed granny that everyone would have loved – kind, proud, occasionally fanciful, and unfailingly smart, with a keen and wise mind, which missed nothing, particularly where her wayward, wide-smiling grandson, Alfie, was concerned....
Nov 1 2007
HE HAD one of those smiling, quizzical and alert faces, which seemed to have been squeezed from the mosses of his native Ireland....
Oct 31 2007
SHE was blonde and silken-legged, a young darling of stage and screen, who was the radio girlfriend of the lugubrious Tony Hancock, then Britain’s favourite comedian....
Oct 30 2007
HE TYPED one of the great documents of military history, this angular figure with the kind eyes and wide smile, who was proud to be a man of facts....
Oct 29 2007
SHE wrote cook-books for women who had little interest in slaving away over a hot stove, and in her independent thinking was years ahead of her time....
Oct 26 2007
AS WIDOW to a famous British composer, she was known by her illustrious surname, but Ursula Vaughan Williams, who has died, aged 96, was also a talented librettist and poet....
