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...When St Louis-born soprano Julia Bullock was 10 years old, her singing teacher explained that her vocal powers would not mature until she reached her late thirties....
...Brought up as Anna Mae Bullock, she was given the stage name Tina by the R&B bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited her after hearing her sing in a St Louis nightclub in 1957....
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...Sanchez and Bullock want readers to “shift our focus from presenting to our audience to connecting with our audience”....
...Alongside the IPO, Luckin is offering 25m ordinary shares to Louis Dreyfus based on an assumed initial public offering price of $16 per ADS, the midpoint of price range....
...A statement by Luckin on Friday suggested the additional funds raised from Louis Dreyfus would be only $10.2m, taking the combined total to $571m....
...After earlier partnerships with US restaurant chains, including the Cheesecake Factory and White Castle, proved successful, Impossible is confident that its initial trial in 59 Burger King outlets in St Louis...
...Impossible teamed up with Burger King to trial the “Impossible Whopper” this month in St Louis, Missouri, the heart of beef and barbecue country....
...Alongside the public offer, Luckin will also sell shares in a private placement to Louis Dreyfus, which has teamed up with it on a joint venture for building and operating a coffee roasting plant in China...
...rates at which banks borrow and lend — improve from 2.95 per cent in 2015, its lowest level since records began in 1984, to 3.23 per cent in the first quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis...
...The story of Tina Turner has substance by the barrowload: Anna Mae Bullock’s neglected childhood in Nutbush, Tennessee . . . her teenage move to St Louis . . ....
...do all this day-dreaming about far-off places when I’m holed up in the studio in London,” she explains of the dazzling four-colour prints, which were produced together with the fashion illustrator Helen Bullock...
...There’s Jeanne Moreau in Louis Malle’s Lift to the Scaffold (1958) or Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) certainly, but many of those women struggled for real agency....
...The same story said that Gwyneth Paltrow was paid $500,000 to wear Louis Vuitton baubles during her live performance of “Coming Home” that night....
...FT arts podcast - Carl Wilkinson talks to Louis de Bernières about how to film a book …………………………………………………………….....
...US-based Moore Capital, the $14.6bn hedge fund run by Louis Bacon, is also understood to have a net long position against Greek government debt....
...Louis de Bernières now tours book festivals with his collection of mandolins and a piano accompanist....
...“The major dealers have too much at stake in the GSEs’ stability to let a $3bn (€1.88bn, £1.5bn) bill auction become a trigger for a significant sell-off,” Louis Crandall, economist at Wrightson ICAP, said...
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