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...Nor have I worked for anyone like J Edgar Hoover....
...It launched the mellow “Darn that Dream”, which was later covered by artists such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Petula Clark. And yet. Swingin’ the Dream ran for just 13 days....
...I still recall the pang of desire I felt as a teenager on seeing David Hockney’s portrait of fashion designer Ossie Clark, from 1970, wearing a fuzzy patterned jumper....
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
.... £32; swatch.com And the thing I’m eyeing next is a book by one of my idols, Edgar Morin....
...Edgar Degas made misery sexy: the “dark, dreamy, fingerprinted figuration of flesh finding satisfaction in flesh” in the blended tones and dissolving borders of his brothel monotypes....
...God knows Lewis and Clark managed to steer a straighter course than this, and that was before the US was even mapped. Trains were once the most romantic means of travel....
...To July 24, moma.org Photographs: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; British Museum; MoMA, New York; Musée Picasso, Paris...
The composer talks about bringing his music to live performance
...A Catholic monarchist who attended mass every morning, Durand-Ruel co-ordinated the careers of atheist republican Claude Monet, Jewish anarchist Camille Pissarro, curmudgeonly anti-Semite Edgar Degas and...
...Julie Edgar of the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation said that Loch Fyne farms from which Sainsbury mislabelled fish were covered by the industry's code of good practice, intended to promote food safety...
...… Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels, by Christopher Lloyd, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95/ J Paul Getty Museum, RRP$39.95 “Drawing has come back again!” announced Gauguin on seeing Degas’s sketches....
...Getty’s one-act opera, based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, has been slotted into WNO’s new “British premieres” series alongside Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream and Richard Ayres’ Peter Pan....
...J Edgar Hoover’s FBI continued to persecute him with wiretaps and discredit him with gossip....
...Richard Edgar looks at an interview with Kasper Rorsted of Henkel, the consumer goods company, with thoughts on the CEO's take on diversity in corporate Germany, and making a success in the emerging markets...
...Kasper Rorsted, chief executive, talks to the FT's Richard Edgar about the homogeneity of Germany's management boards, brand power in the emerging markets, and the challenge of recruiting in Asia....
...At the launch of his company’s annual survey of chief executives, Dennis Nally, chairman of PwC, tells the FT’s Richard Edgar why there has been a startling return of enthusiasm for the world economy among...
...He tells Richard Edgar that as the financial crises of 2007 fades, participants are becoming more interested in geopolitical issues....
In his last interview at the helm of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy talks about the turning points in his life and career: his upbringing, and the future
...Failure to act, he tells the FT's Richard Edgar, could result in further civil disturbances across the globe....
...He tells the FT's Richard Edgar that the oil producers' organisation sees no need to increase production to reduce prices as supply is already strong and that there are no plans to change its target of...
Jean-Claude Trichet on the future of the eurozone
...The FT's Ralph Atkins and Richard Edgar discuss the interview given by Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, with a look at his call for tougher penalties for discredited eurozone...
...The FT's Richard Milne and Richard Edgar discuss this week's View from the Top featuring Frank Appel, chief executive of Deutsche Post DHL, the world's largest logistics company....
...Patrick Jenkins, banking editor, discusses an unsettling moment for investors with Seb Morton-Clark....
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