Hints and tips:
...Its rooms are shot through with coloured light from the stained glass windows, and its walls are decorated in painstaking trompe l’oeil or flocked wallpaper, or painted in supersaturated tones....
...My grandmother had Humphreys Removals on speed dial....
...Regulators’ approaches to seaweed farming so far look similar to the rules they apply to fishing, says Humphrey Atkinson, head of operations at Notpla....
...Wiseman, the sports presenter Jake Humphrey and comedian Bill Bailey — using the idea of listening as a thread....
...Wilder co-wrote his screenplays with scribes such as Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, often in cantankerous relationships....
...Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker, London; Sebastian MacKay, Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152: Roger Clews, London; Vivienne Blackwell, Kent; Jenni Humphreys...
...Well, Debbie Bestwick is Team17’s longstanding CEO. Fellow co-founder Martyn Brown is a dev at Five Aces, a small studio doing football management games, having quit the company in 2011....
...Meanwhile, Fraser Ingram, who has served as interim chief operating officer since the departure of Debbie Crosbie to rival TSB, will take the job on a permanent basis....
...The disembodied voice of Debbie Harry on “L’étrangère” was fitting: so many of the songs owed a debt to Blondie, combining garage-rock guitars with disco synths and a hissing hi-hat....
...A reminder also that directors including Sebastian James, the Dixons CEO at the time, along with Katie (now at M&S) Bickerstaffe and Humphrey (ex of M&S, now of Belron) Singer and Andy (Ocado soddie) Harrison...
...L’Oréal also appointed Cyril Chapuy president of its premium division, L’Oréal Luxe....
...As I walk through the front door, Debbie Wosskow’s disembodied voice greets me from the depths of her Little Venice townhouse....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Debbie Wosskow has founded several businesses, including Love Home Swap, which helps people swap their houses for holidays....
...Debbie Williamson, an analyst at research firm eMarketer, said that while the company has been trying to address its own userbase problems, it has become surrounded by rivals....
...Restaurant Pertinence, 29 Rue de l’Exposition, 75007 (restaurantpertinence.com). The best book I’ve read in the past year is Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom....
...What the refinancing does provide is more time for new boss Debbie White’s turnround plan, plus some short-term reassurance....
...Young people on the planet probably said, “Debbie Who?”, apprised of no distinction beyond her parental achievement....
...Le Comptoir de l’Image, 44 Rue de Sévigné, 75003 (+331-4272 0917; comptoirimage.com)....
...“Play it again, Sam” is known as the line that Humphrey Bogart made famous, but his character in Casablanca did not actually say those words at all....
...The tourist’s Paris of the Champs-Élysées, the Étoile and the Avenue de l’Opéra is largely the work of Haussmann....
...Life inside the house — watching films on the high-tech audiovisual system, lounging on the big L-shaped sofa, or watching sunsets from the hanging seat on the terrace — could scarcely be further removed...
...Now he is about to begin a global role, at director level, at L’Oréal’s The Body Shop....
...Born on December 4 1923 to a Roman Catholic family in Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles Humphrey Keating was a high achiever from a young age....
...[Debbie’s son, Louis, is mixed-race.]...
...To contribute to the debates raised in this series go to discussions.ft.com/alchemy or email dr.debbie.harrison@gmail.com...
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