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...Archie Norman As chairman of ITV and Lazard London, Archie Norman undoubtedly has the credentials to be Tesco chairman....
...Norman also chaired Thomas Tilling, the industrial group, was vice-chairman of Sun Life Assurance and a director of BOAC, Kleinwort Benson and the British arm of SKF, the Swedish ball-bearing maker....
...“I’m reputed to swear a lot,” he warns, “but I don’t consider it swearing … ” You would expect as much from a member of what photographer Norman Parkinson dubbed the “Black Trinity”: Duffy, David Bailey...
...He began his career as an investment trainee at Kleinwort Benson....
...“It was subliminal advertising,” Walsh says, pointing to similarities with the surreal Benson & Hedges cigarette advertisements of the day....
...But within a few generations of the Norman Conquest, those Anglo-Saxon names had become extinct, replaced by Norman names such as Richard, Robert, Charles, Henry and William....
...of the most successful examples of the dosing of poetry in recent times has been the brilliant Poems on the Underground initiative, begun on the London Tube by three visionaries (Judith Chernaik, Gerard Benson...
...It may have had the glitziest building in German banking – western Europe’s highest tower, designed by Sir Norman Foster – but in other ways it was barely standing....
...Few can think of Norman Tebbit, the hardline Thatcherite minister in the 1980s, without recalling an opponent’s description of him as a “semi-house-trained polecat”....
...On that day Norman Tebbit, the trade and industry secretary, rang the chairman of Kleinwort Benson, bankers for the Fayed brothers....
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