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...Astor wanted his own face as the merry old king’s, and Parrish (it is said) had his revenge by giving the millionaire the expression of a man passing gas (Parrish’s reaction to the news that Astor died on...
...He offered informal advice to presidents, including George HW Bush but mostly on the Democratic side....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter Letters in response to this article: Heseltine’s Tarzan morphs into Tolkien’s Treebeard...
...One answer is that they created some of the great cultural icons of the 20th century: Fleming came up with James Bond, Dahl invented Willie Wonka, while George Lucas arguably surpassed them both by giving...
...“My uncle George Dannatt had a well-known collection of British modernist art....
...“Too many governments continue to act as if the only tool in their anti-Covid-19 arsenal is a blanket border closure or an arrival quarantine,” said Willie Walsh, Iata’s director-general....
...The portly figure of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of King George II, is lodged in Scottish mythology as the “Butcher Cumberland”, or “Stinking Willie”, one of those characters whose deeds...
...This included a bonus of £883,000 for IAG boss Willie Walsh. It is the second year in a row Ryanair has faced protests from shareholders....
...Collectors of Parrish include the film director George Lucas, who has said that the artist inspired some of the fantastic landscapes in Star Wars....
...Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways, said the proposal had come as a “surprise” and would hinder the aviation industry’s recovery from an unprecedented...
...On Thursday, Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways’ parent IAG, said it would not restart flying if a 14-day quarantine was imposed on passengers arriving in the UK because it would put people...
...At 8am on Monday, Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of drugmaker Merck, used an appearance on America’s main business TV network to address the killing of George Floyd....
...But before it did, a sample of her tissue was collected without her knowledge during treatment and sent to George Gey, the hospital’s head of tissue culture....
...But “it’s a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart”, as the Coen brothers had George Clooney say — especially if that heart is Mr Trump’s....
...A low table is covered with George Orwell’s oeuvre, which Wan says flies off the shelves....
...Willie Walsh, who delayed his retirement to handle the pandemic response, will finally retire on September 24....
...Here are my picks for Biden’s cabinet, to be announced one at a time — tantalisingly — to ensure maximum TV coverage:Vice-president: Oprah WinfreyAttorney-general: Tom HanksAgriculture: Willie NelsonCommerce...
...This is a far cry from 2009 when pilots helped the airline out by taking a pay cut, and BA’s boss Willie Walsh committed to work a month without pay....
...I remember Willie Nelson saying: “I still get drunk, but these days, I have less to get drunk about.” That about covers it. Food, too. This year I’m eating less meat. I don’t turn it away....
...There’s a neat connection here: the rhythm guitarist on The Tornados’ “Telstar”, George Bellamy, is the father of Muse’s guitarist and singer, Matt Bellamy....
...Meanwhile, Willie Walsh, boss of British Airways, has lamented the “shocking” lack of progress in Brexit talks....
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere Bush made Willie Horton an issue in 1988, and the racial scars are still fresh....
...Harris’s emergence in the Bay Area political arena was kick-started when, at the age of 29, she began publicly dating Willie Brown, the then 60-year-old speaker of the California state assembly....
...George, congratulations. It's a wonderful novel. What does winning a Man Booker prize mean to you? Well, it's a tremendous surge of confidence....
...Expanding on his methods, Saunders describes an early scene in which the ghost of Willie enters the body of his father in the crypt....
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