Robert MundellJohn Mayhead CBE writes: Some years ago I was on a small group walking holiday based around Sienna and led by a local guide. We went to the village of Santa Colomba to see some frescoes in the chapel there. Standing outside the chapel we were next to a giant old palazzo and our guide was telling us that an eccentric American professor had bought it some years ago. SponsoredA window flung open at the top of the building and a female voice with a Bronx-type accent bellowed down to us, “He ain’t American he is Canadian and he has won a Nobel prize, stay there I am coming to talk to you.” Having appeared, it turned out to be Valerie, his partner,

Source: The Times June 03, 2021 23:01 UTC