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Sunday Times Magazine March 23rd 2009
DID YOU KNOW? Three enticing gems: the reclusive playboy who inspired Iron Man; the New Yorker who became the first woman to swim the Channel; and did a heartbroken Munchkin hang himself in The Wizard of 0z?
SHORT STORY – After stirring controversy with her new book, Julie Myerson brings us a tale about an angelic-looking child who tears his adoptive family apart
A LIFE IN THE DAY – The EC president Jose Manuel Barroso on meetings with Bono and President Sarkozy, and watching his weight
RELATIVE VALUES – The fashion designer Nicole Farhi and her cousin Moris, author, look back over a lifetime of happy family memories
WAITING FOR GARDOT – A near-fatal car crash nearly ended Melody Gardot’s career before it began. But the accident turned out to be the vampish singer’s passport to stardom
COVER STORY: BAD EIRE DAYS – A few years ago Ireland’s streets were paved with gold. Then its booming economy went bust. Can the Emerald Isle ever regain its sparkle?
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN OR WOMEN – We neglect them, disrespect them, then put them out to grass: A A Gill on our appalling treatment of the elderly
ART BREAKER – He’s an inscrutable and influential figurehead of British art. But how long can Jay Jopling remain a top draw?
UNDER-COVERS AGENTS – The cold-war spies trained to be red-hot lovers then dispatched to tease out top-secret information
84 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
