Hints and tips:
...Byron Grote, the supermarket’s senior independent director, will become interim chair....
...Capita has announced that CEO Jon Lewis will retire at the end of the year and be replaced by Amazon Web Services’ Adolfo Hernandez....
...Byron is more his style: “His rock and roll-ness and relationships made him interesting and fun. But beyond that, the Romantics . . ....
...Byron Trott, a former Goldman Sachs dealmaker and banker to Warren Buffett, is taking a minority stake in Brunswick, valuing the group at £500m, the FT’s Michael O’Dwyer reports....
...In 1957, he asked his agent Byron Raphael to begin procuring more girls for him and hundreds were desperate to meet the hero with the velvet voice....
...However, Byron (who lived a couple of doors along) was fiercely critical of the whole enterprise, referring to the display as “a general mart, for all the mutilated blocks of art”....
...KPMG has been appointed as administrator to Intu Properties and burger chain Byron in recent weeks....
...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....
...Both ISS and Glass Lewis, proxy advisers who make voting recommendations to shareholders, advised in favour of the measure....
...What dirt did publisher John Murray have on Lord Byron? In the weeks after Byron’s death in 1824 at just 36, the public appetite for anything with his name on it was insatiable....
...In Booker, Tesco is snapping up the supplier to hundreds of convenience stores that compete with Tesco’s own small format shops as well as restaurant chains, including Wagamama and Byron Burger....
..., Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and TS Eliot....
...The supporting male characters all seem intentionally stodgier, but Byron Jennings stands out as an anguished senior diplomat who ultimately puts honour before loyalty....
...Meanwhile Byron Grote, a non-executive who joined the Tesco board six months ago, made his first share purchase on Wednesday....
...The clinical serenity of a Lewis must be a terrible disappointment to them....
...John Lewis largely forgoes persuasion for emotion, and for good reason....
...So, of course, has the man in Tesco’s hot seat, Dave Lewis....
...Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, by James Booth, Bloomsbury, RRP£25, 544 pages Roger Lewis is author of ‘What am I Still Doing Here?’...
...The King’s Revenge, by Philip Womack, Troika, RRP£6.99 The Elaborate Darkening Path trilogy closes with many an echo of Tolkien and CS Lewis as Simon, Anna, Flora and Johnny voyage across the Silver Kingdom...
...Well into his sixties, in homage to Byron, he swam the Hellespont. He also found the time to pen some of the most beautiful travel books ever written....
...Byron Lewis is angry about the lack of jobs in Ohio....
...Across the Atlantic, five of the US’s first six winners of the Nobel Prize for literature had drink problems: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck....
...Darwin Lewis Clifton, a founder of Desire, has been fined £59,500 by the Financial Services Authority....
...Byron Davies, chief executive of Cardiff council, says: “St Davids 2 will mean a massive shift in our position as a retail centre, and has helped employment in the city enormously.”...
...The club has returned to jazz proper, and May’s programme, opening with Don Byron and closing with Branford Marsalis and Kenny Garrett, stands comparison with the bigger international festivals....
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