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...Puzzle 2509 Carel van den Berg v Erich Eliskases, Beverwijk 1959. White to move and win. In the actual game, the Dutch international master missed the decisive move and lost eight moves later....
...“Duchesses would shop in her shop and also people who worked as secretaries,” says the V&A’s Lister. But careful marketing by the trio also played a role in the brand’s success....
...Mark Hebden v Anders Hoyer Berg, Queen’s Gambit Accepted 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 c4 dxc4 4 e3 e6 5 Bxc4 c5 6 O-O a6 7 Bb3 Be7 8 Qe2 cxd4 9 Rd1 Nc6 10 Nc3 O-O 11 Nxd4 Qc7 12 Bd2 b5 13 Nxc6 Qxc6 14...
...But while I was working at the Georges V in Paris, I asked a customer if I could make him a Manhattan my way....
...That same year, and with £5,000 he inherited for his 21st birthday, Plunket Greene opens a fashion boutique, Bazaar, at 138a King’s Road, London, along with entrepreneur Archie McNair....
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...“B-e-e-t-h-o-v-e-n”, my friend helpfully replied and repeated the name “Beethoven”, whereupon the concierge further enquired, “Is he a guest of the hotel?” My friend was amused and said, “No....
...harry.eyres@ft.com Twitter: @sloweyres More columns at www.ft.com/eyres ——————————————- Letters in response to this column: Schoenberg’s break with tonality was quite straightforward / From Dr Charles G V...
...www.padlondon.net Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 Until January 15, 2012 Victoria and Albert Museum The V&A’s big autumn show is a detailed examination of a still-divisive movement....
...He became a trainee trader at brokerage Hutton and worked for trading groups V Berg & Sons and JH Rayner. He traded cocoa and coffee at Salomon Smith Barney’s Philbro London, and left in 1998....
...On the streets of Berlin’s trendy Prenzlauer Berg district, for example, hipsters who were scarcely toddlers at the time of reunification wear trainers from Zeha Berlin (right), an update of the Zeha shoes...
...Chief players : Jeffrey Berg, chairman, and Chris Silbermann, president....
...The Jewish Museum’s ponderously titled new exhibition, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, might more aptly have been dubbed “Greenberg v....
...Riat Chairman The Bremic Hotel V....
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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