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...“As a collector he was completely eclectic,” says Daniel Hunt, owner of the auction house....
...When Princess Margaret fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a commoner and a divorcee, the Queen — supreme governor of the Church of England — stayed aloof and the princess finally renounced Townsend...
...For the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, she was filmed in a cameo with the actor Daniel Craig reprising his role as James Bond....
...Innumerable projects, pop-ups and openings have been postponed, among them the much-anticipated skyscraper restaurant SAGA from Daniel Humm alumnus James Kent and Jeff Katz of Crown Shy in Manhattan; and...
...Mark Townsend’s No Return (Faber RRP£12.99, April) is the instructive story of five jihadis whose dark trajectory towards Syria could have been prevented....
...Hayley Townsend, the local Labour councillor, said she had knocked on 5,000 doors and the mood was still “positive”....
...According to Daniel Martin, senior Asia economist at Capital Economics, deep-seated reforms will be needed if the country is to attract investment into the manufacturing sector....
...It is a joy to re-encounter stories by Francis King, Georgina Hammick, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alan Sillitoe and Christine Brooke-Rose....
...“We see ourselves as internal concierges,” says Daniel Jordaan, the Lanesborough’s head butler. “We are the link between the guests and the rest of the hotel....
...Adam Calman, a principal at Townsend Group, which invests in funds, says just 10 per cent had been raised of the $120bn (£75bn) targeted by funds globally....
...Billy (Jacob Casselden), deaf since birth, lives in a close-knit, hearing family, dominated by the noisy intellect of his academic father (Stanley Townsend), and his loud, non-PC views....
...Adam Calnan, a principle of the Townsend Group, says the market is changing to the investors’ advantage. Townsend research shows there are clear advantages from choosing fund managers carefully....
...James Townsend, one of the top Pentagon officials on Europe, says European defence cannot be organised like “a pot luck dinner …You can’t just let people bring what they want to bring based on their pocketbooks...
...Townsend’s book is a perfect example. More than six years in the writing, it gives encyclopaedic coverage of walking and climbing routes on every Scottish mountain of note....
...American Talal Yousif, Lebanese Swiss Jana Frey, German Luitwin Scharfetter, Austrian Axel Bernzott, German Stefano Masino, Italian Marcus Barraclough, British Rok Trost, Slovenian Rae Yuan, American Townsend...
...Others include A Whole New Mind, in which Daniel Pink argues that right-brain empathy in future will be more important than left-brain analytical ability, and The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki, another...
...Mr Townsend was chief executive of Avis Rent-a-Car in the 1960s and the man behind the successful redirection of the company....
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