I ended the evening last night (well, not literally) in Bemelmans Bar alongside the Carlyle Hotel, which manages to escape the normal American taboo against bars, perhaps because of its long-standing association with Jackie Kennedy who helped preserve the murals and much else in Manhattan.   Of course, in the evening one cannot really appreciate them in the raucous atmosphere of 6 o’clock drinking (Americans start everything early), but in the morning I was able to snap them for the record:-