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...For example, during the 1960s the Labour housing minister Richard Crossman had a difficult relationship with his permanent secretary Dame Evelyn Sharp....
...Nicolas Huss, who had been chief operating officer, is to become the CEO, while Bernard Bourigeaud is to become chairman....
...“In the past, they were more quiet,” says Evelyn Farkas, the top Russia expert at the defence department until her resignation last year. “In this case, they really were not trying to hide at all....
...DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell all lived here and current residents include John le Carré and the playwright David Hare....
...When complimented on his “very sumpshous house”, Bernard “gave a weary smile and swollowed a few drops of sherry wine....
...The site of the future Old Bond Street was occupied by the eastern wing of Clarendon House, described by John Evelyn as “without hyperboles . . . the noblest pile, the most useful, graceful, and magnificent...
...Brendan Lemon is an FT critic Photographs: Estate of Evelyn Hofer; Wenn; Getty; David Seymour...
...My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59, edited by Robert Cumming, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$45 A meeting of minds between the flamboyant connoisseur and the distinguished...
...Evelyn Herlitzius lives and breathes the mammoth title role....
...Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself. We wanted to read all their books and know all about them....
...Kingfisher chairman Daniel Bernard has hired NHS director Clare Chapman, adding another female director to his board along with Janis Kong....
...At his death, diarist John Evelyn recalled the Lord Protector’s funeral as the “joyfullest” he had ever seen…” for there were none that cried, but dogs.”...
...At 10 is Brideshead Revisited (1981), an 11-hour adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel....
...Lady Victoria de Rothschild, former wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, was included, as was Mount Capital, which invests on behalf of other wealthy families....
...As a parting shot, he said, “I can at last please my most vehement enemy, Evelyn Waugh....
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