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...Tremor by Teju Cole Faber & Faber £18.99/Random House $28, 256 pages Franklin Nelson is an FT editor and writer Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The ovation was immediate, and the encore of Aretha Franklin’s “Think” presented each singer in turn....
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...“We’re seeing big gaps in what has been ordered [by retailers] and what has been selling through,” Franklin added....
...First up later this year is New York’s Franklin Parrasch, whom Epstein describes as “an inspirational gallerist, something of a mentor”....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound....
...Hopefully Boris Johnson referred to Franklin D....
...More than two decades after Fannie Mae’s Franklin Raines became the first African American to run a Fortune 500 company, just four companies on that list have black chief executives....
...Composer Cole Porter used to live here, as did former US president Herbert Hoover and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Frank Sinatra sang in the glittering ballroom....
...Tracy Mort, managing director, Grace Cole and Affinity Bay, the beauty products companies. Simona Novelli, operations director, Cox Exhibition Consultants....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the former president, tapped industry player Joseph Kennedy to be the first chairman of the SEC because he thought it was most efficient to “set a thief to catch a thief”....
...day I meet Tony Bennett, a splendid summer afternoon in London, neither of us is to know that one particular song from his new album Duets II, a series of collaborations with stars ranging from Aretha Franklin...
...Profile publishes an eclectic mix of books, from The Unwritten Rules of Finance and Investment by the financial columnist Robert Cole to Pompeii by Mary Beard, the Cambridge professor of classics....
...“People are still looking for reassurance and comfort from their homes,” says Kate Franklin, creative director of insight and trends forecasting consultancy LS:N Global....
...In truth they are pretty uneven affairs illuminated by the presence of Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole....
...Senior executives from four of the leading lenders – HSBC, Countrywide, WMC Mortgage, First Franklin – testified....
...The top three investors are Capital Group (12.8 per cent), Franklin Resources (8.6 per cent) and Barclays Global Investors (5.1 per cent). All are based in the US ....
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