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...“One of the things that has resonated with the US consumer is the Britishness of the Burberry story,” says John Smith, the company’s chief operating officer....
...Many of them had broader interests, none more so than the American sprinter John Carlos, who with his compatriot Tommie Smith gave the “Black Power” salute in Mexico City in 1968....
...The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 By Janie Hampton Aurum £18.99, 350 pages A wonderful micro-history of the strangely ignored postwar Olympics, a time when impoverished Britain...
...But Smith is a proper writer, as are the shortlisted John Carlin, Janie Hampton and Jonathan Wilson, the FT football writer....
...Even in 1948 in London, the women had chaperones, writes Janie Hampton in her wonderful new book, Austerity Olympics. The communist countries feared all-male fraternisation too....
...Michelle Smith, London Ray Boulger: A key thing to look for with a capped rate as well as the level of the cap and the fee is what the underlying rate is....
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