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...Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner have all been artistic directors of what organisation?...
...Immanuel’s son Alfred invented dynamite and later bequeathed his fortune to support the Nobel Prize....
...Alfred Pearce-Higgins London SW15, UK...
...They interviewed Trotsky, Gandhi and Mussolini, tracked down Hitler’s relatives, advised President Roosevelt, and inspired Katharine Hepburn’s character in Woman of the Year and Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign...
...Nicholas Hayek, Swatch’s co-founder, rescued the Swiss industry from the “quartz crisis” of the 1970s, when Japanese quartz watches overtook cheap mechanical devices....
...There are gentle layers of planting that barely leave an imprint yet dial up the atmosphere: white “Madame Alfred Carrière” roses tumble out of mellow stone; cascades of white Wisteria floribunda alba hang...
...Alfred Latham, governor between 1861 and 1863, made three claims for 402 slaves in Tobago, Nevis and Jamaica, totalling £824,000 in today’s money....
...Highlight: The enchanting Art Deco Twickenham Bridge by Maxwell Ayrton and Alfred Dryland (1933) was the first major three-hinged, concrete-arched bridge in the UK....
...Extracted from Time Tamed: The Remarkable Story of Humanity’s Quest to Measure Time by Nicholas Foulkes (Simon & Schuster, £25)....
...“We don’t want blood money,” cries Nicholas Woodeson’s bustling little mayor. “I’ll wait,” purrs Manville, curling into the glorious sedan chair with which she travels....
...A beaded evening dress from 1969 recalls a party with Truffaut where she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock: a memory accompanied by a pang of regret at never having worked with the master of suspense....
...I’d just seen Nicholas Hytner’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and perhaps the wild surrealism of that production made the cityscape more vertiginous than usual....
...There are indeed some good pictures, including works by Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and Sir Alfred Munnings....
...It is an interesting detail that the FT’s new printworks were designed in Docklands by Nicholas Grimshaw in 1988....
...Maison Bonnet, in focus 1930s Alfred Bonnet becomes recognised as a specialist craftsman in eyewear, working in a workshop in Morez, the glass-manufacturing centre of France....
...It is always dangerous to compare a work of art with its antecedents, in this case Winston Graham’s novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s film. This opera has to stand on its own two feet....
...There’s a long meditation on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, while another section is a mere sentence: “Counting is ghostly: the cuckoo knows this.”...
...The seaside town saw an influx of artists after the second world war, drawn by the landscape and light but also by Nicholson’s “discovery” in the 1920s of the naive art of St Ives fisherman Alfred Wallis...
...(Pause here for the obligatory acknowledgement that the economics prize has a different status from the other Nobels: it is formally known as the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel”....
...Zeitz’s Segera Retreat in Kenya was their lab until the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront proposed the silo as a not-for-profit museum....
...Finally, I loved Nicholas Carr’s blog post, asking whether Uber’s next chief executive should be a robot....
...The story that we grew up with, that Alfred Barr [New York MoMA’s first director] established, that the museum and market place grew around — it’s an important reference point, but it’s no longer all-encompassing...
...Nicholas Lander interviewed by Natalie Whittle ‘On the Menu: The World’s Favourite Piece of Paper’ April 1, 2pm Oxford Martin School, £12.50 FT restaurant critic Nicholas Lander looks at the history,...
...“I would have liked to be Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time,” Twombly told Tate director Nicholas Serota in 2008....
...There are eclectic tributes from Janet Baker, Alfred Brendel, Nicholas Hytner and others....
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