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...An intense encore, Harold Mabern Jnr’s “In What Direction Are You Headed?”...
Price surges in the 19th and 20th centuries spurred the use of innovative technologies and changed government policies
...Henry changed the shop’s name to H Wainwright & Sons to include his children, Harold and Herbert, and the family bought another Liverpool jeweller, Boodle & Dunthorne, in the early 1910s....
...The piles had been running flat out to produce fissile material for the H-bomb tests. When it came to clearing up, those pioneers didn’t leave much of a map for their successors....
...A D H Leishman Cape Town, South Africa Letter in response to this letter: Visionary? Macmillan was a frightened rabbit / From John Murray, Guildford, UK...
...Born John Bloomstein to Orthodox Jewish parents in 1931 — his father was a tailor from Poland — Bloom was educated at Hackney Downs school, a contemporary of playwright Harold Pinter....
...Then as now, a strong currency was essential, and William could not let his conflict with Harold Godwinson, the Anglo-Saxon king, cripple England’s economy....
...Letter in response to this article: Fed’s mandate is not only for the super-rich / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...But usually, as W.H. Auden put it, we tend not to “ask what doubtful act allows/ Our freedom in this English house,/ Our picnics in the sun”....
...Sign-up for our Weekend Email here Letter in response to this article: Germany has a largely ceremonial head of state / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
...Harold Macmillan, the then prime minister, felt obliged to rebuke the US secretary of state publicly. Privately, he all but agreed with him....
...Taylor discusses the importance of the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury in the early 20th century, run by Harold Monro, but does not mention his assistant and wife, Alida, who did most of the work, and who...
...This would be followed by a further nine historical works, as well as a memoir about her second marriage with the playwright, Harold Pinter, and a number of novels....
...Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Laski, Christopher Hill, E P Thompson and E H Carr were all frequent visitors....
...People interviewed for this article likened WPP to ITT in the US, where Harold Geneen was CEO until 1977, or Hanson, the industrial group assembled by James Hanson and Gordon White in the 1970s and 1980s...
...While Harold Wilson was defeated in 1970, he retained sufficient personal authority to regain office in 1974....
...In the 1980s McEwan was one of a group of literary writers in London — others included Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Harold Pinter and Hanif Kureishi — who were radicalised by Thatcherism....
...Dean Nolan is a foot higher and two feet wider than Harry H. Corbett, but his Harold is no less affecting when we see his dreams of romantic success, or simply of getting a holiday on his own, dashed....
...… 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...
...“It is really the kind H [Helen] and the children who make life almost impossible.”...
...Whitehall, under the direction of then Labour PM Harold Wilson, brought down the shutters on him....
...One passage was particularly notable: quoting the socialist thinker R.H....
...(H/T @pkedrosky and various Tweeps) Related links: Dear Wall Street: join me, or else – FT Alphaville What was at stake in the spat between Henry Luce and Harold Ross?...
...Harold Ryan, head of Bungie, says the studio expects H alo: Reach will be “the greatest game of all time” and he has no qualms about having its next planned action-genre game published by Activision....
...As William might have said to Harold: “Here’s one in the eye for the English establishment.”...
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