Hints and tips:
...John Burn-Murdoch’s piece “Does the American dream foster inequality?”...
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff Henry Holt and Co./Bridge Street Press, $29.99/£25, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Recent staff defections have included John Erle-Drax and Geoffrey Parton, at Marlborough for more than 50 years each when they left in 2023 to work with another alum, Frankie Rossi....
...His father, John Sr, also led the bank. John Weinberg’s cousin Peter Weinberg is a Goldman veteran who founded Perella Weinberg Partners....
...In recent years, otherwise unremarkable pieces have far exceeded estimates at auction, including cast-offs that once belonged to Joan Didion, Sir Michael Caine, Sir Roger Moore, John le Carré and many more...
...Among these, George HW Bush, John Adams, Jimmy Carter and John Kennedy stand out....
...Secretary of state John Kerry apologised to Netanyahu after an unnamed US official described the Israeli premier as a myopic, pompous “chicken shit”....
...Or perhaps the entire plot line around a serpentine Russian oligarch Grigor Andolov played by John Malkovich....
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House. The most his son could probably expect is to become an icon of the delusions of his time....
...“There’s a degree of caution because of interest rate rises, but best-in-class properties are still selling well,” says Sam Holt, a director of Strutt & Parker estate agency....
...The FT’s John Gapper called it “an amusing story of New York ambition and hubris”, but with “deeper social significance”....
...I am here for a gala organised by Toni Holt Kramer, head of the “Trumpettes” group of superfans, who I met last time I was here....
...Meanwhile, Elton John is due to close proceedings on Sunday with his last ever show in the UK....
...In this important book he has set out to use the radical ideas of John Rawls as a way to organise a society that is both free and fair....
...The novel opens with a shifty ex-con named Felix Mordaunt arriving at Arden, the country house where Godley Sr lay dying in The Infinities....
...Mars’s board approved the expense but Weihrauch thought he should make one more call, to John Mars, the oldest surviving member of the Mars family’s third generation....
...Henry Jr had dinner with FDR the night before he died, and Bob was with Bobby Kennedy when he learnt John F Kennedy had been shot....
...During Marcos Sr’s two decades in power, he plundered billions of dollars worth of state assets, according to Philippine officials who have tried to recover it after his 1986 ouster in a popular revolt....
...The Mars credo, that it should provide a “mutuality of benefits” to consumers, distributors, employees, shareholders and others, was laid down in 1947 by Forrest Mars Sr, the son of Frank and inventor of...
...And it was also led by two savvy south California businessmen, Martin Crowley and John Paul DeJoria, who founded the company in 1989....
...“The party is going through a temporary rocky road — but I would argue that happens to most parties that have been in power for a long time,” said 19 year-old Truss supporter John White....
...Marc FilippinoThat’s the FT’s John Reed....
...of CMS; Keith Schilling of Schillings; and Shlomo Rechtschaffen of SR law....
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