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...After four years of demolition, it is still one of Britain’s biggest buildings, the most breathtaking manifestation of prime minister Harold Wilson’s vision of a “white heat” of technology....
...On the morning of Friday October 11 1957, a terse message landed on the desk of Sir Edwin Plowden, head of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority....
...It’s mayhem at Bracken House / From John O’Byrne, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland...
...House steward Helen Davis explains this would have been scrap paper used by the bookbinder, and “Harold and Vita wouldn’t have seen it”....
...In 1953 it was the patrician Harold Macmillan who, as Tory housing minister, could boast of having completed 318,000 new homes in one year alone....
...Edwin McAuley New Territories, Hong Kong...
...Chapters are contributed by prominent central bankers, economists and economic historians including Paul Volcker, Maurice Obstfeld, Catherine R Schenk, Edwin M Truman, James Boughton and Harold James....
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
...He shows how Los Angeles, by virtue of its position as the background to Hollywood, has been forced into every possible filmic version of the city, from buzzing backdrop to Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy...
...Sir Harold’s sons – John and Robert – remain involved in the nursery business....
...… Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey, by Alex Milway, Walker Books, RRP£6.99/ Candlewick, RRP$12.99 Would-be famous explorer Pigsticks and his taciturn hamster assistant Harold embark on...
...Influences range from Harold Pinter’s terse, bloody poetry to Kurdish folk song, and the imagery includes scenes of brutality – soldiers falling “like lumps of meat” – alongside unsettling moments of beauty...
...Edwin Heathcote …………………………………………………………….....
...Other inventions by two people include wax crayons, invented at the turn of the century by Harold Smith and Edwin Binney, owners of a paint factory in New York....
...Its most effective member, Edwin Chadwick, became one of the most influential men in Victorian Britain....
...Edwin Heathcote, FT architecture critic …………………………………………………………….....
...Beveridge extolled the virtues of Harold Samuel’s Land Securities – and I much regret never having tucked some away....
...Edwin Heathcote FT architecture critic ………………………………………….. Film Von Sternberg, by John Baxter, University Press of Kentucky RRP£25 The ego has landed....
...In the Edwardian era the two great designers of formal water features were Edwin Lutyens and Harold Peto. Their designs all lacked stamina in a British climate....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic ………………………………………………………....
...Edwin Armstrong, pioneer of FM radio, fell to his death in 1954, worn down by endless patent disputes with more powerful corporate opponents such as RCA....
...Edwin Stanton, a famous lawyer, humiliated Lincoln in 1854, calling him an “ape” and barring him from assisting him in a trial....
...His book covers - including works by Harold Pinter, Kazuo Ishiguro and Mario Vargas Llosa - contrasted profoundly with the shallow, colourful works of his emerging post-modern contemporaries....
...It draws up to 40,000 paying visitors a year and it makes much of a connection with Britain’s own Miss Gertrude Jekyll, and her architectural associate, the great Edwin Lutyens....
...Jekyll, who was an artist by training, is particularly known for her partnership with architect Edwin Lutyens, and the highly fashionable gardens they created in the early 20th century have been emulated...
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