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...Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr’s sense for the zeitgeist meant that shoppers got a glimpse of Louis Blériot’s aeroplane days after he crossed the English channel in it in 1909 and John Logie Baird first demonstrated...
...John McDermott is the FT’s executive comment editor...
...In More Than a Game, John Major, the cricket-mad former British prime minister, recalls explaining the sport to President George Bush Sr – his “eyes swivelled when he realised that a match could last five...
...Harry Eyres is the “Slow Lane” columnist for FT Weekend....
...In recent years, authors including David McCullough (Harry Truman and John Adams), Doris Kearns Goodwin (Roosevelt and Lincoln) and Robert Dallek (Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson) have won prizes and found large...
...The carmakers “are very well used to managing the supplier relationships”, says John Wormald, a partner at Autopolis, an industry consultancy....
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