Queen Mary's Troubled Waters 5/14/05 LA times

[Alan]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...ck=1&cset=true

Many years ago, the French novelist Georges Perec decided to write an entire book without using the letter "e." Impressed by this feat, I resolved to write a column about the Queen Mary without using the term "white elephant" even once.

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