Hints and tips:
...In 1933 the Marx Brothers served up Duck Soup, a madcap farce about a crackpot dictator....
...Paul Allen had much more art than Christie’s could offer in its recent two-day sale and works will continue to creep on to the market....
...Allen & Overy has promoted 36 new partners....
...Most of his comedy is about his mother parenting him and his brother: half-Japanese, half-Jewish identical twins who are both gay....
...Anna Gross, and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing, provide the blow-by-blow on Allen Wu’s last stand. 3....
...The Ottomans, who did not practice primogeniture, tried to remove the threat of rival claimants to a new emperor by the tradition that he had all his brothers strangled with a silk rope....
...Could this be China’s Lehman Brothers moment? Watch it here....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired Audry Casusol as a partner in the New York office. She joins from Sidley Austin....
...The rush in to silver was reminiscent of a similar effort by oil barons William Herbert Hunt and Nelson Bunker Hunt, known as the Hunt brothers, who in 1979-80 bought billions of dollars worth of the metal...
...My brother alerted me to a beautiful sentimental track from 1939 called Till the Lights of London Shine Again, by the Joe Loss Orchestra with Chick Henderson singing....
...The price is not anywhere as near as expensive as it looks,” said Michael Allen, analyst at Jefferies....
...The Bank of Mexico’s lowering of interest rates last week was the 800th rate cut around the world since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to Bank of America....
...Law firm Allen & Overy has announced 29 new partners. You can see the full list here....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...Not in normal constitutional times, writes David Allen Green — but these are not normal times. The crisis in retailing is reshaping employment....
...Peter Bronfman’s widow Lynda Hamilton, who later married Mr Cockwell, has been named as a shareholder in previous years, as has Mr Cockwell’s brother Ian, who once ran Brookfield’s housebuilding division...
...“My brother was a remarkable individual on every level,” said Jody Allen....
...DiClemente joined CBS earlier this year in the same role and before that worked as an analyst at Evercore, Nomura, Barclays and Lehman Brothers....
...A survey conducted in several US cities last year by Booz Allen Hamilton, the consultancy, found that most respondents were either positive or neutral about the prospect of travelling in an urban air mobility...
...H/2, which is run by Spencer Haber, a former Lehman Brothers banker, believes it can turn the care homes into a profitable business without the pressure of the debt repayments....
...What did he make of the musical Hamilton ? “I like Hamilton. One of my ads now is, if you can’t get tickets for Young Frankenstein, try Hamilton.” What are his ambitions?...
...He will be replaced by Amanda Hamilton-Stanley, who is currently the top lawyer at Chivas Brothers, starting September 1....
...He put up a slide of “Billy B” who used to work at Costco before borrowing $2,000 from his grandfather to sign up, with his brother, for a full Brian Allen seminar....
...Photographs: Rik Hamilton/Alamy; Getty Images...
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