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...The bench-top brazier used by his assistant Jenny Lynn to heat a copper soldering iron matches one he researched at Woolwich armoury near London from the 1750s....
...Authors United, which counts bestselling writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Donna Tartt and Stephen King among its supporters, is soliciting signatures for a letter to William J....
...Then Investment pillar president Jonathan Goodwin from LEPE partners announced the publication of a quick guide to investment on the BFC website and an inaugural fashion forum at Syon House in June, bringing...
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...We get it too from Donna Murphy’s spinsterly work colleague, who in Abe’s head, where most of his life happens, becomes a sex-cat fairy godmother....
...on the arrogant Fred Goodwin’s obsessive leadership....
...Earlier this year Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC, dispatched Lynn Calpeter, the group’s chief financial officer, to Hollywood from New York to examine the poor performance of the studio....
...Lynn Williams, of estate agency Fine and Country/Dafydd Hardy, says that while sales volume has declined, Anglesey is not suffering too badly....
...rather than ugly, with none of the violence that has marked demonstrations against bankers’ pay in the US, severance packages in France or the £700,000 ($1.15m, €810,000) a year pension awarded to Sir Fred Goodwin...
...Unwilling to describe herself in relation to a fantasy, she – played by Lynn Redgrave – says the word is “not a description – it’s advertising”....
...Before taking over at Burberry from Rose Marie Bravo in 2006, Ahrendts worked at Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne, reviving the fortunes of the fashion houses through diversification....
...Joey Goodwin, of bow tie-makers Unruly Heir, says: “Whole [tuxedos] …once were very Bar Mitzvah, prom or some Wasp-y social thing …It’s flipping that around to wear a bow tie alone....
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