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...proportions: Harvard or Yale. She didn’t compare professors, student politics or dorms. She didn’t scan course catalogs. Instead, she pored over the club listings in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. Unimpressed by New Haven’s sparse offerings, Brown packed her bags and her Mayfair banjo for Cambridge’s thriving bluegrass scene...
...years that followed, Margaret indulged herself in a lifestyle that took a toll on both her health and her popularity. "She was not our favorite royal," said a 40 - ish Mayfair manicurist last week. "We resented having our tax money going to support her hedonistic lifestyle." Margaret smoked - up to 60 cigarettes day at one point - and drank heavily. Her name was linked with a variety of men, in particular Roderick Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior with whom she had an affair that lasted several years...
...good beginning might be a stroll through the old central city, home of the Tower of London. Move on to historic Chelsea and Greenwich, explore literary Bloomsbury, then follow the footsteps of Jack the Ripper with a leading crime historian. Sample the pubs along the Thames; prowl the Mayfair world of Princess Diana--maybe even run into a royal; rub elbows with gowned barristers at the Inns of Court and then finish the day with a black-caped guide leading you down shadowy West End streets in search of ghosts of centuries past. "It was like taking a half-step...
Today drinkers at trendy bars from Manhattan to Mayfair pay as much as $40 for a tall shot, or caballito, of Porfidio Barrique, and buyers snap up Herradura's $230-a-bottle Seleccion Suprema. Even mass-market leader Jose Cuervo now offers a $1,000 bottle of limited edition 1800 Coleccion. It's all part of the trend toward boutique liquors that began in Europe and the U.S. in the late 1980s, says Chris Morris, national marketing director for American distiller Brown-Forman's two tequila brands, Pepe Lopez and the newly introduced Don Eduardo. "When single-malt whiskeys burst...
...wonder people aren't sporting canes these days. After all, to truly capture the essence of puma, one must travel to a flea market overseas (or Mayfair) to procure a chiseled wooden cane with a carved jackal as the handle. Yeah, baby...