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...lavish hotel once home to Winston Churchill’s office, underscores a new era of inflation-resistant super-luxury hospitality as foreign investors snap up trophy assets, writes the FT’s travel editor Tom Robbins...
...In 1925, Charles McIlwraith, an Australian sheep farmer and shipping magnate who had recently bought the estate, commissioned Stanley Philpot, an architect from Tunbridge Wells, to build a new mansion here...
...Ada Walsh Student T-shirt: Annie, opened 21 April 1977 at the Alvin Theatre (now Neil Simon Theatre), New YorkMusic: Charles StrouseLyrics: Martin Charnin “Annie was the first musical I saw....
...Ronnie, now a jobbing magician (“The Great Pablo”) has been asked by his friend Jack Robbins (“Jack Robinson”, as in “before you can say”) to be part of the end-of-the-pier show he’s compèring in Brighton...
...Charles Liu was on the board of Applied Materials not Charles Hao...
...Both Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria were fans, even if Smith’s climbing prowess was rather less impressive than his provisioning....
...Brexit from Brussels UK Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins is in Brussels for day two of talks with the EU, this time with his commission counterpart Sabine Weyand....
...Jerome Robbins directed and choreographed the 1957 Broadway production and Zambello, credited here as stage director, has said that Robbins was her template and that what is seen on stage is half his....
...Tom Robbins travelled as a guest of EasyJet, which flies to Geneva from 15 UK airports, and Auto Europe, which offers a week’s car hire from Geneva from about £155...
...The Charles Kuonen bridge is 494m long, 85m above the ground at its highest point and 65cm wide — just enough for walkers to pass single-file....
...Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank, said the transition deal could last from three to five years, rather than the two years touted by prime minister Theresa May, and...
...Davis, according to his colleagues, feels that Robbins has been too quick to haul up the white flag on occasion....
...“I think three to five years,” says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform....
...The 80-room Paris hotel, the first to be situated airside at Charles de Gaulle, is also the first to open under the chain’s new brand, Yotel Air....
...A few years later, Nike ran an ad featuring Jordan rival Charles Barkley speaking to camera. “I am not a role model,” Barkley says....
...The gentle walk visits sites associated with Wordsworth, Ruskin and Coleridge, as well as Charles Darwin and Beatrix Potter....
...(As an added note, poor little February 29 has only actor Dennis Farina, long-dead songstress Dinah Shore and self-help guru Tony Robbins to hold its calendrical flag up high.)...
...Olly Robbins, permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, was previously in charge of policy on immigration and free movement....
...Keith Vaz, committee chairman, had asked him repeatedly whether Charles Montgomery, Border Force director-general, had been told what his budget was to be for the year ahead....
...John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor Illustration by James Ferguson Letter in response to this article: Dennett has invented a paradox on consciousness / From Christopher Robbins...
...Those meetings must have been really sparky but it was Robbins who ruled the roost.”...
...Combe House is a Grade I-listed Elizabethan manor, on the edge of Gittisham, once described by Prince Charles as an “ideal English village”. thepighotel.com Top photograph: Getty...
...The barefooted, raggedly dressed caretaker, Charles Carmichael, a Sri Lankan with a distant Scottish ancestor, proudly showed us round the 163 graves, each marked by stones brought from Britain in the empty...
...“You won’t see fur coats, but you might see the king of Sweden pushing a trolley in the Co-op”. ——————————————- Tom Robbins was a guest of Haus Alpina (haus-alpina-klosters.com) and Swiss (swiss.com)....
...They included Charles Giancarlo, now at tech buyout firm Silver Lake, and Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures....
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