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DIED. Stanley Holloway, 91, ingratiating British actor, singer and comedian who captured the heart of Broadway with his performance as the cockney garbage man, Alfred P. Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, a role he reprised in the movie version; in Sussex, England...
...deep casserole of lamb chops and kidneys, ranks with a French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...
...which nine years later became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, then twelve years old; in London. Bagnold, who was married for 42 years to Sir Roderick Jones, longtime chairman of the Reuters news agency, demanded three hours every day for writing in their 35-room mansion in Rotting-dean, Sussex...
Having no wish to contribute to the hysteria that always follows the grief at such public mournings, McCartney, who has hired two bodyguards to protect himself and his family, said he would stay home in Sussex, England, even if there was a funeral. There was not. Lennon's body was cremated in a suburban New York cemetery, and Ono issued a statement inviting everyone "to participate from wherever you are" in a ten-minute silent vigil on Sunday afternoon...
...editor who championed democratic ideals in books like the Pulitzer-prizewinning The People's Choice (1933), and Land of the Free (1935) and A Time for Greatness (1942), and served during World War II as the director of the British division of the Office of War Information; in Sussex, England...