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...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Geneva...
...henry.mance@ft.com...
...Nothing, however, compared with the “rumble in the jungle” (Kinshasa, Zaire) of 1974 when Ali dethroned George Foreman....
...He was born John Kaye in Whitechapel in 1934; his mother Vera was a seamstress, his father Dave a factory foreman in Kasmin’s grandfather’s “schmutter” business — which also sold 8-9 million coat hangers...
...And that doesn’t count the time in London, fixed in British memory, when Henry Cooper floored him with his famous left hook before Cooper bled to defeat....
...Amanda Foreman, the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire argues that Amazon’s grip on the book market presents “a real and present danger” to consumer choice....
...‘Les Années 50: La Mode en France, 1947-1957’ runs to November 2 at the Palais Galliera: Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris Photograph: Henry Clarke / Galliera / Roger-Viollet...
...In Angola, the US backs rival guerrillas, setting up a destructive proxy war between the Cold War powers. 1974 Muhammad Ali defeats heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman in a fight staged in Zaire...
...He added that he had not asked whether the other “learned” judges – who included the historian Amanda Foreman and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens – had also read Wolf Hall....
...Dove, which first ran “real women” advertisements in 2004, has created a sequel fronted by “real woman” Alexis Foreman....
...Henry VI was admonished by his contemporaries, says McKendrick, for “not showing a fashionable face” and, on one occasion in 1471, showed up “shabbily dressed not looking as if he owned a new gown to his...
...” defensive posture that saw Foreman eventually punch himself out after eight rounds....
...‘A World on Fire’ (Penguin £12.99) by Amanda Foreman is published in paperback on June 2. She will be speaking at the Hay Festival on June 4...
...Amanda Foreman is author of ‘A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided’ (Allen Lane)...
...As Professor Henry Higgins, Rupert Everett sports a well-trimmed beard that is positively timid by Edwardian standards and inexplicably overdone expressionist eye make-up....
...Golf was epitomised by Henry Longhurst, a master wordsmith with the air of a man sipping his fifth pink gin. Murray Walker of motor racing was contrastingly manic....
...Meanwhile, George Foreman regained a version of the world heavyweight title when he was 45, though that was more a comment on the state of boxing....
...But he credits the Foreman-Ali fight for opening the doors to the wider world. “I was invisible just like every other black until 1974....
...There is powerful acting; there are clever plot twists; and there is Mikhalkov himself as the jury foreman, appropriating the film’s subtlest dialogue zinger....
...The jury had retired a week ago, but on Thursday afternoon - after 25 hours - their foreman said that there was no possibility of them being able to reach a decision....
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