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...“Sequoia will do everything to stay on top,” said Eric Doppstadt, chief investment officer at the Ford Foundation, Sequoia’s longest-standing LP....
...HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford were other guests....
...What was also happening in the interwar period was a trend towards industrial concentration, as companies such as GM and Ford squeezed out their smaller competitors....
...Kissinger stayed on as secretary of state under Ford, who succeeded Nixon, but when Ford lost the election to Carter in 1976, the mood had changed....
...Alfred Stieglitz’s train hurtles towards us in “The Hand of Man” (1902). Jacques Henri Lartigue celebrates his brother’s flight in a homemade glider “Zissou Taking Off in the Yard at Rouzat” (1910)....
...Nobody today suggests that Alfred P Sloan had “something to prove”. Neil McPhaterLongstanton, Cambridgeshire, UK...
...A chalk stream muddles along through trout ponds, footbridges and fords. Red-brick cottages line narrow streets; wisteria escapes over garden walls....
...A little later, when I was around nine or 10, we started spending occasional Saturday nights at a nearby university’s cinema, where we saw classics like John Ford’s The Searchers and George Cukor’s Gaslight...
...Currently seated in the back of his Ford Ranger is the co-founder and creative director of The New Craftsmen, Catherine Lock, and two of the Mayfair gallerist’s makers, the furniture designer Mac Collins...
...In Hong Kong, I dress more smartly – I might wear a Tom Ford suit paired with Vans. For downtime, I like classic activewear pieces by Acne Studios....
...Alfred Hitchcock understood how cars convey meaning....
...The outfits sported by Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 crime thriller, are more often than not held up as the epitome of men’s summer style....
...The second clue is Alfred Nobel’s own disdain for the boring business of management....
...and former president Gerald Ford among others....
...In 2003 Polanski was given a standing ovation — in absentia, of course — when Harrison Ford accepted on his behalf the Best Director Oscar for The Pianist....
...Look at the greatest Anglo-American director, Alfred Hitchcock. His three most enduring films were also based on pulp novels or stories: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho....
...Tom Ford showed his autumn/winter collection here in February 2015, and that was one of the greatest experiences....
...GM acquired a series of other automakers and suppliers in the 1900s and 1910s, most notably Cadillac, Buick and a ball bearings factory owned by the father of Alfred Sloan....
...Its Great Hall resembles the nave of a cathedral, yet in place of the 14 stations of the cross are murals of the history of Manchester painted by Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown....
...The following year, Alfred Sloan of General Motors unveiled the 1923 Chevrolet, a car with an old chassis but a stylish design that started the Detroit tradition of the annual model upgrade....
...Alfred Lee shares some previously unreported details about why (The Information). Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level. Mohammed bin Salman is seen as a reformist....
...Professional management allowed Alfred Sloan, GM’s former chief executive, to overtake Ford in the 1920s. “I do not regard size as a barrier. To me, it is only a problem of management,” Sloan wrote....
...“At Ford I used to design frame and fuel systems,” she says. “Things must work. It must be safe.”...
...The brand is an eccentric beast, with Alfred Dunhill first finding success in the late 19th century with the sale of accessories and clothing for the early motorists....
...Jury president Francis Ford Coppola and opening-night guest of honour Bill Murray both came armed with words about peace and understanding....
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