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Between London pub rounds, he lived in Laugharne, a silted-up old South Wales cockle port, bright with pink-washed cottages, near where he used to visit his grandfather as a boy. Life at Laugharne seemed to suit him. He played with his three children, visited his parents, who lived in the same village, cut his daily beer intake to ten pints. "It's lovely, on the sea," he said. "You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do - all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning. I'm a very...
...short street, and it takes hours to get from one end to the other. I stop at the pub and get back for lunch. In the after noon there's nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced by the three chapters from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and the 20 stories published with them. Many a poet, when he writes prose, sounds as stodgy as a beached carp, but Thomas easily swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous...
...first time since the club was formed in a London pub half a century ago, Chelsea's Stamford Bridge soccer team shouldered its way to the front of the First Division and won the English League title...
...Time for Obits. From far and wide next day the tributes poured in. Great contemporaries, heads of state, ancient enemies, old colleagues, distant admirers, journalists, historians, soldiers, statesmen and plain men in the street took to their typewriters, their telegraph pads, their microphones, their notepaper or simply the local pub to heap praise on a career that has seldom been matched...
...daily speculation on the subject by a Big Name. The series was extended to more than three weeks and pulled some 25,000 letters from readers. What sparked the mail was as wide-ranging a set of personal excursions and amateur sermons as ever kept a pub crowded till closing time...