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...Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath Crossword 16,194: Ross Casley, California; Stephen Payne, Cornwall; Iolanthe Lonergan, London Polymath 1,026: Simon Marks, London Crossword 16,188: Julia Gray...
...It is true that Paris Echo not only revisits the doubt and dread of the German Occupation (familiar from Charlotte Gray) but also glances further back to the first world war trenches (Birdsong)....
...In Fatal Risk, his book on AIG’s crisis years, the journalist Roddy Boyd notes that: “Fifty years before Peter Drucker and other management gurus by the boatload would preach decentralisation . . ....
...The cost of operating a back office in the two cities has increased 10-12 per cent in the past 18 months, about four times the rate of inflation, according to Boyd....
...The tale of a lonely cowboy haunted by the ghost of his girl “Who I loved and lost a year ago”, the recording was drenched in echo and the disembodied voice of backing singer Lissa Gray, who sounded as if...
...Patience Gray, who, with Primrose Boyd, wrote Plats du Jour, a bestselling cookbook, was bringing up two children alone when it was published in 1957....
...Plats du Jour by Patience Gray (a woman whom Mrs David detested even more than she detested Peter Mayle) and Primrose Boyd is of 1957....
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