"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Lieutenant-Commander Brian 'Blinkers' Paterson
Pilot who had a dashing wartime career then played a key role in rescue operations during the Ionian Islands earthquake in 1953.
Carmine De Sapio
Last of the Tammany Hall bosses who controlled public life in New York before being jailed for corruption.
Tiziano Terzani
Writer who documented the end of the Soviet Union and crossed Asia by land on a fortune-teller's advice.
Austin Farrar
Yacht designer who invented the pulpit, which prevents sailors being swept overboard, but failed to patent it
Francis Crick, OM
Abrasive biologist who discovered the structure of DNA, unravelled genetic code and investigated consciousness
Nick Rossiter
Documentary maker who coaxed the art expert Sister Wendy out of her caravan and on to the small screen
Dorothy Hart
Actress who beat 20,000 women to win the National Cinderella Girl contest and later starred in The Naked City.
Derek Taunt
Mathematician who was a codebreaker in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park and became bursar of Jesus, Cambridge
Sacha Distel
Singer who epitomised Gallic sophistication and nearly married Bardot but had only one British hit single
Queen Susan of the Albanians
Level-headed Australian girl from the outback who accompanied the exiled monarch she had married back to his country.