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...What was the collective nickname for the group of showbiz friends in the 1950s and 60s, who included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra?...
...World leaders due to address the gathering of Pacific nations include Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and, waving the flag for Global Britain, UK premier Rishi...
...The plot of Best of Enemies, a typically spiky work by British playwright James Graham that is transferring to London’s West End next week, reads like political science-fiction: an ailing television company...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...The announcement this year of a mooted remake of Vertigo (with Robert Downey Jr in the role played by James Stewart) provoked spluttering at the temerity rather than outrage that the man behind the original...
...The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope has been three decades in the making....
...Forget James Bond and all those predictable tuxes — Dune offers a chic but chilling view of fashion’s future. A headline in GQ asked, “Is Dune set to be the most stylish sci-fi film since The Matrix?”...
...From January, which Newsnight host will be the main presenter of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour? Who was the first US president elected after the abolition of slavery?...
...For the period ending June 2019, the S&P 500’s 10-year annualised performance beat buyout funds for the first time in a decade, according to a report from Bain, the consultancy....
...The Scottish actor, who has died at the age of 90, won fame playing James Bond, the suave superspy hero of Ian Fleming’s novels....
...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
...Squint closer, though, and you might even spot Birds of the West Indies, written by one James Bond — a book owned by Ian Fleming, and from which he cribbed 007’s name....
...Then came the Victorian follies: John S Thurman’s “pneumatic carpet renovator”, so big it had to be moved from house to house by horse-drawn cart, and Hubert Cecil Booth’s “Puffing Billy”, which dispatched...
...Change Healthcare general counsel Loretta Cecil aimed to have no government investigations, major litigation, accounting restatements or public relations gaffes for 10 years when she was appointed in 2017...
...Boseman originated the Black Panther film role two years earlier in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, and reprised the part twice more in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and 2019’s Avengers: Endgame....
...Aged 16, he won a sports scholarship to Harrow School in north-west London, a boys’ public school whose alumni include Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton and Benedict Cumberbatch....
...Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper, Norwich R Winter, Worthing; Kate...
...Meanwhile, guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi, bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti resembled the interlocking parts of a machine....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...Here’s a reminder of why the S-400 is one of the world’s most advanced air defence systems....
...Robert Wann Jr has been hired by law firm Baker Botts as a partner in its corporate practice in New York. Wann joins from White & Case....
...FT readers respond A distracted Trump makes room for Putin by Philip Stephens Poland’s pollution gives Vogue a less glamorous backdrop by James Shotter What you've been saying A pension scheme design...
...“You have to give James [Gorman] credit for courage, and for execution,” says one former top executive at Goldman, musing on how it lost its edge over the rival run by Gorman....
...“Let[’s] discuss,” the first senior campaign aide wrote in an email to the second, the document states. “We need someone to communicate that DT [Donald Trump] is not doing these trips....
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