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...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Even after he became rich, the humiliation of being poor stuck with him — as French screenwriter Maurice Bessy put it, “Poverty fitted Charlie like a glove.”...
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...Seeger until it was purchased by the late industrial scion Frederick R. Koch (not to be confused with his Republican mega-donor younger brothers)....
...The memoirs of Tomas O’Crohan, Maurice O’Sullivan, and Peig Sayers are still in print, still much loved, and still central to any study of Gaelic literature....
...Chubb is led by Evan Greenberg, son Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who turned AIG into a financial powerhouse over four decades....
...Top lot of the Périnet sale is a Fang head from Gabon (est €2m-€3m), whose first recorded owner was the Fauve artist Maurice de Vlaminck....
...In his introduction, editor Jesse J Holland describes the importance to him of Black Panther, and others like him, as “an unapologetic, proud, intelligent paragon of Blackness, our personal King Arthur”....
...Staff there only keep about 25 cases in a modest room off the kitchen, says Frederick J Ryan, author of Wine and the White House....
...The River Café opened on the bank of the Thames in 1987, the year of Sorrell’s greatest triumph: the audacious takeover of J Walter Thompson, a New York advertising institution that was 13 times the size...
...Companies that acknowledge they use liquidators include J Jill, the women’s clothing chain....
...Maybe we just don’t need J Crew any more....
...Washington, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Carver. The muralists’ heyday was steeped in ironies....
...Neiman Marcus, J Crew, Lord & Taylor, Brooks Brothers and JC Penney all filed for bankruptcy this year....
...Frederick Studemann FT LITERARY EDITOR It is way too early for a proper account of Covid-19 and its consequences....
...efficiency obsession back to its roots in the work of economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo, but analyses the 20th century’s influential management thinkers such as time-and-motion obsessive Frederick...
...Nilanjana Roy and Ben Okri in tipping Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for inspiration; of the 2020 crop I would single out one yet to reach the bookstores: Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum’s impassioned J’...
...Like the J Sainsbury chief Mike Coupe, Mr Lewis said that Tesco had not increased its promotions compared with last year. “Our total participation [in promotions] was slightly lower.”...
...This is the new reality,” said New York estate agent J. Philip Faranda last week. But that reality was shortlived....
...In a 1998 letter exhibited at the trial, an executive from Noramco wrote to Purdue Pharma — then known as Purdue Frederick — to say that “gaining access to raw materials on a worldwide basis . . . simply...
...It exhibited a 1998 letter where a Noramco executive wrote to Frederick Pharmaceuticals, which later became Purdue, explaining they could not obtain such a large supply from any other company....
...Oklahoma), speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, March 12 1976; Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard Nixon, Washington, DC, August 10 1975; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Frederick...
...It weaves fact and fiction, as Howard Hughes, J Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys mix with fictional gangsters and FBI agents in the run-up to the Kennedy assassination....
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