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...Adventure for him is something “I could conceptualise only in the ways established by Stevenson, by Melville, and by the other greats who had taken me by the hand”....
...Savannah Stevenson’s Marmee too has a beautiful, rich voice and finds a little grit in a rather thanklessly wholesome role....
...Brian d’Arcy cheerfully squeezes himself into the ogre suit with the ears, and Sutton Foster is radiant, in fact megawatt-bright, as the Princess....
...Adam Crozier will become chairman at the end of November, replacing Brian McBride....
...His book, Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, a bracing amalgam of history, biography and travel, may add little to recent lives by Frank McLynn, Ian Bell, Brian Bevan and Claire Harman, or indeed to personal...
...Brian Johnson, CLSA analyst in Sydney, said Mr McEwan would be a great fit for the job at CBA and top of the headhunters’ list....
...Robert Louis Stevenson, in his poem The Scotsman’s Return From Abroad, praises his favourite Scotch whiskies: “The king o’ drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Islay, or Glenlivet.”...
...“Pretty much all funds now have the ability to restrict redemptions in the event of liquidity problems, and this is a real risk in the bond fund sector,” says Brian Dennehy, managing director of Fundexpert.co.uk...
...“Brian Duffy made a bonfire at the end of his garden and chucked all his work on to it.” Even today it’s a mistake that photographers risk making....
...Daniels thought its chairman (Lord) Dennis Stevenson, chief executive Hornby and his predecessor Sir James Crosby were “talented amateurs”. None came from a banking background....
...Brian Dennehy, of fundexpert.co.uk, notes that this may be the case for investors who expect an inheritance or who plan to move to a smaller, less expensive property in the future....
...His ambitious programme includes music by Bach, Beethoven and the octogenarian Ronald Stevenson....
...brian.groom@ft.com Twitter: @GroomB ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Strewth, mate, the GFC spells crisis / From Mr John Stevenson...
...Dennis Stevenson, former chairman of HBOS bank and Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, suffers from depression, and in an FT article last November urged chief executives to take a lead by inviting colleagues...
...From Mr John Stevenson. Sir, I was interested to read Brian Groom’s Notebook about Strine in decline (June 17) and the use of GFC for “global financial crisis”....
...brian.groom@ft.com Twitter: @GroomB...
...Brian Crombie, a former Biovail chief financial officer, described the careful arrangements in a paper on international taxation....
...“He seems to have picked up bits of Tennyson, Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson while listening with one ear to the football results on the wireless.”...
...John Stevenson, retail analyst at Peel Hunt, said that the drop in hire sales was less sharp than they had feared. “It’s purely weddings [that caused the drop],” he said....
...I have to say a lot of that [discussion] has been overblown,” said Brian Reid, chief economist at ICI. Robert Buckland, chief global equities strategist at Citi, said he also remained sceptical....
...Women appointed to FTSE 250 non-executive roles in recent months include: Demetra Pinsent at Capital & Counties Properties, a former McKinsey partner; Helen Stevenson at St Ives, previously UK chief marketing...
...Additional reporting by Alexandra Stevenson in London and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York...
...Announcing the group’s full-year results, chief executive Brian Brick said: “You can’t go round moaning about the weather, but weather is a factor.”...
...Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99, 320 pages Alain Mabanckou’s novels about life in Africa have won much acclaim....
...“We have started going direct to the factories so that’s given us a better buying price,” said Brian Brick, chief executive....
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