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...Meanwhile, the bank that Evelyn continued to lead became a force in advisory work, helping Margaret Thatcher’s government to privatise BT and other state-owned assets in the 1980s, and pursuing, in contrast...
...And so, although protocol means the likes of Vera Lynn or Fred Astaire songs, or numbers from her favourite musicals (such as Show Boat, Oklahoma!...
...Gone with the Wind was a phenomenally popular novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936 and adapted three years later into an equally successful movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh....
...The romance-and-action epic, based on the Margaret Mitchell book, made her a star, though Warner was slower to recognise this than de Havilland....
...In politics, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher used advice from Friedman to launch radical free-market policies....
...“I haven’t figured it out,” he told Lynn Hirschberg of W magazine in what is described as his final interview as an actor. “But I need to believe in the value of what I’m doing....
...“You don’t have to like sponsors,” says the Canadian scholar Margaret MacMillan, an admired contemporary historian and former warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford....
...Even Margaret Thatcher left her study to tune in. Out of all the great British political satires, none are as engaging or timeless as Yes Minister....
...Margaret Forster died in February this year at the age of 77 after a long and successful writing career....
...Susan Lynn from the campaign said it was too difficult to turn down the money which amounted to 90 per cent of their 2013 budget but she believes the settlement “harms vulnerable teenagers and families”....
...The title character of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage’s terrifically entertaining new play at Second Stage, is an African-American performer who longs to be cast in Hollywood pictures....
...Tom Wolfe, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen – all have been Kakutanied. Yet none of them would even recognise her in the street....
...Veteran journalist Lynn Barber called the lobbyist “dazzlingly handsome, nay gorgeous”. Was this Laws’s first serious relationship? “Yes – the first. Full stop.”...
...White Cliffs Dame Vera Lynn, 92, does not like the idea that the port of Dover might be sold to foreign investors. Perhaps they should get rid of those pesky American Bluebirds too....
...Lynn Spencer recalls the banter in Touching History, her story of what happened in US airspace on 9/11....
...Spitting Image (1984-1996) is a good example of satirising people – we still remember Margaret Thatcher’s handbag and David Owen and his miniature David Steel, more than 20 years on....
..., and ex-Watchdog presenter Lynn Faulds Wood have expressed interest in standing as MPs, perhaps inspired by Joanna Lumley’s Gurkha victory. Surely the people-off-the-telly party must gain momentum?...
...You would have thought the threat by Esther Rantzen, the former That’s Life presenter, to stand in Luton South would disappear once Margaret Moran, the Labour MP who claimed for dry rot treatment at her...
...When Saatchi asks why I never send him any work, I say, ‘You put Margaret Thatcher in power. Thatcher should be tried for crimes against humanity.’”...
...Hotelier Richard Balfour-Lynn would probably agree: he is a partner in Malmaison Hotels, which no doubt provides a useful outlet for his Balfour Brut sparkler....
...Reynolds American Sector: Tobacco Location: US 3-year TSR: -19.2% 34 Name: Cristina Stenbeck Company: Investment AB Kinnevik Sector: Financial services Location: Sweden 3-year TSR: -12.6% 35 Name: Lynn...
...Audio interview: Three generations of female doctors – Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, her daughter Lynn Turner-Stokes and granddaughter Tabitha Turner-Stokes – reveal how life has changed inside the NHS since...
...The Who’s Who of desert island castaways includes Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov, Margot Fonteyn, Cecil Day Lewis, Noel Coward, Vera Lynn and John Betjeman....
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