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Albert Henri Roux OBE (8 October 1935 – 4 January 2021) was a French restaurateur and chef. He and his brother Michel operated Le Gavroche in London's Mayfair, the first restaurant in the UK to gain three Michelin stars.He helped train a series of chefs that went on to win Michelin stars, and his son, Michel Roux, Jr., continued to run Le Gavroche until January 2024.
1 de feb. de 1974 · This is Thomas^^^^Williams. Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) was an American novelist. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
– – – Discorso di accettazione di Thomas Williams per aver ottenuto il National Book Award del 1975 per il romanzo The Hair of Harold Roux; 1975 National Book Awards Fiction Winners - Author's Site, su nbafictionblog.org, www.nbafictionblog.org, 4 agosto 2009. URL consultato il 4 ottobre 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 19 agosto 2017).
Release. 19 February 1957. ( 1957-02-19) –. 27 June 1967. ( 1967-06-27) Emergency Ward 10 is a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like The Grove Family, a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, Emergency Ward 10 is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas.
Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (split award).
Gary De'Roux later revived amateur boxing in Peterborough in 1998 with the formation of the Phoenix ABC producing amateur champions of his own. (Source, Harold Alderman) Gary De'Roux (Peterborough) professional record British Featherweight - 9 st (126 lbs) Champion, 5 March 1991 until 22 May 1991 Undefeated Southern Area Featherweight Champion, 14 December 1990 until 5 March 1991.
In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel hailed as a masterpiece, it deserves a new generation of readers.
