Articles...
Jul 7 2008
IT IS perhaps sad that, in the end, his most lasting offering to the world might be the biography of his father. William Buchan, the writer and third Lord Tweedsmuir, was doomed to be judged against his father, John (1875-1940), whose rattling yarns not only thrilled boys, but were widely praised for their narrative flow and descriptive passages. ...
Jul 4 2008
THE fellow with the brilliant if maverick mind, who introduced Fred the tapeworm to his system in the belief it would help combat stomach disorders on his extensive travels, was not easily dismayed by the banality of conventional thinkers....
Jul 3 2008
SOME devotees said that the handsome chap, who briefly dated Elizabeth Taylor, when she was in a lull between husbands, was the finest musician to step out of Buffalo, the flour-milling city on the banks of Lake Erie....
Jul 2 2008
SHE was known as one of the three famous "Baby Ballerinas", renowned for her graceful and sophisticated style, which belied her age....
Jun 30 2008
IT WAS perhaps a small burden to carry in an astonishing life, but most people assumed that Kermit, the wise-cracking but sensitive frog, had been named after the chap with a snowy beard, which looked like it should have been hanging on a grotto peg....
Jun 27 2008
IT WAS, in its own way, almost as significant to Liverpool’s music as the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at St Peter’s Church fete, Woolton, in 1957....
Jun 26 2008
THEY were the soul of the chattering, hat-pinned England of refained voices and pursed lips, sitting at their tables in the cafes....
Jun 25 2008
SHOWING country life at its most peaceful and idyllic, her pictures in such English classics as The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows, delighted children and adults alike while her own lifestyle came, she said, from "nostalgia for a day and time that was more peaceful and slow”....
Jun 24 2008
WHEN all footballers looked old, smiling from those vividly coloured cigarette cards which now fetch fancy prices, he was the captain and defensive stalwart of the finest team in the land....
Jun 20 2008
HE SHUDDERED at the sight of blood, but the young puppeteer with the mountainous imagination loved monsters....
