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Ten years ago, she had 16-pound facial tumor removed at Jackson

Edit Topix 13 May 2016
In 2005, Marlie Casseus of Port-au-Prince had a 16-pound tumor removed from her face at Jackson Memorial Jackson Health System employee Nancy Spain hugs Marlie Casseus, a Haitian woman who had a 16-pound tumor removed from her face at Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2005, as she visits Jackson to say thanks on Thursday, May 12, 2016. Spain remembers meeting Marlie when she was at the hospital for her surgery ... ....

Irish singers, Frances Black and Kieran Goss, woo audience in Derry

Edit The Examiner 06 Nov 2015
Newry-born Goss – a former lawyer whose diminutive stature and bald head makes him seem like a plucky bantamweight - showed he is the consummate entertainer and raconteur ... Much to the audience’s delight, he also performed ‘Out Of My Head,’ his biggest ever hit, and displayed his mesmerizing guitar playing and melodic voice on his sensitive interpretation of the Christy Moore ballad, ‘Nancy Spain.’ ... And here is where you can see them. ....

My Cork: a lost paradise of Datsun Sunnys and winding streets

Edit The Irish Times 21 Feb 2015
When I was six years old my family left Douglas, in Cork, and moved to Kildare, where my dad was stationed with the Army ... It felt like banishment ... “Kildare isn’t Dublin,” I’d say ... In my 20s I was in a band and frequently played gigs at Nancy Spain’s, the Lobby Bar, Sir Henry’s or Fred Zeppelins (a tiny venue about the size of your sitting room; it’s still there) ... “I used to be from Cork,” I once announced from the stage of Nancy Spain’s....

Invisible Ink: No 220 - Nancy Spain

Edit The Independent 19 Apr 2014
There was a time when Nancy Spain seemed to be everywhere ... Spain was a Woman’s Hour regular, and appeared as a panellist on What’s My Line and Juke Box Jury ... Nancy was transformed at Roedean into the perfect jolly-hockey-sticks pupil, playing professional hockey and lacrosse, and developing the cut-glass speaking voice that became her trademark ... She was turned down for membership in the Detection Club because her books were too funny ... ....

A star turn by JFK in region

Edit Times Union 18 Nov 2013
"He was electric," said Al Spain Sr., 92, of Wynantskill ... Spain was a neighbor and friend of Kolenberg, who photographed Spain's 5-year-old daughter, Nancy Spain, at the afternoon Troy rally. "I think my dad probably picked me up after half-day kindergarten and brought me downtown," Nancy Spain, 58, recalled ... Nancy Spain is a North Greenbush Town Board member, her brother Al Spain Jr....

Book Review: Her Brilliant Career, By Rachel Cooke

Edit The Independent 17 Nov 2013
Patience Gray, the food writer who used to be better-known than Elizabeth David; the journalist and detective novelist Nancy Spain, ditto, was so famous that Paul McCartney came to her New Year’s Eve party; Margery Fish survives as a name among gardeners thanks to her championing of plants such as cranesbill, hostas and Artemisia “Lambrook Silver”....
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