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...Holly Chalifour Walker, 58, plans to fly and drive to Illinois from her home in British Columbia to enjoy the event....
...It was bought by Patti Wong, Sotheby’s former head of Asia and now an independent art adviser, bidding on behalf of a Hong Kong buyer, against her previous colleague, Jen Hua, Sotheby’s deputy chair of Asia...
...from Animal Farm (illustrated by Quentin Blake in 1984) to Tales from the 1,001 Nights (with Salvador Dalí’s ’60s watercolours), Nursery Rhymes (with etchings by Paula Rego) to De Profundis (introduced by Patti...
...Patti Waldmeir is the FT’s North America correspondent Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The FT’s Owen Walker has the inside story on this marriage of convenience....
...And after eight years of Mr Walker in the governor’s mansion, “maybe people were just a little bit tired of him”....
...“We have to reduce the amount of money everybody’s pouring in, because in the end consumers basically wants cheap transportation,” said Don Walker, chief executive of parts supplier Magna, in a speech at...
...Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir and Robert Wright...
...His role in 1982’s Frances led to a 27-year relationship with co-star Jessica Lange, with whom he would have two children, Hannah Jane and Samuel Walker....
...“Lady Marmalade” had been dreamt up by Bob Crewe, a human hit machine whose credits included The Four Seasons’ “Rag Doll” and The Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”....
...Patti Smith had slept in Tompkins Square when she got off the bus in New York in 1967. That’s how authentic it was....
...He was referring to the 1950s, when Wagstaff was a popular “walker” for beautiful women and a deb’s delight. But Patti Smith recognised the emotional damage that had been done....
...That is in stark comparison to Diageo, which produces well-known international brands such as Johnnie Walker scotch and Smirnoff vodka, and this week reported underlying sales growth of 2 per cent in the...
...trendier, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...The first documented sale of a Johnnie Walker whisky in Shanghai was in 1910....
...As a purveyor of Scottish firewater – also known as Johnnie Walker – Paul Walsh, Diageo’s CEO, says he can foresee a day when Chinese white spirit will have as broad a global footprint as Scotch whisky....
...So will Britons be expected to drink paint-stripper-on-the-rocks from now on instead of Johnnie Walker? Not hardly....
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
...Last Chinese New Year, $3000 bottles of Diageo’s ultra-exclusive The Johnnie Walker whisky had to be air-freighted in to meet demand....
...Lesli Ligorner, China employment law head at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Shanghai, says she believes expatriate inclusion will be mandatory....
...Patti Waldmeir, FT Shanghai correspondent … Spirits and fine wine Shanghai White is the latest product offering from Diageo, the UK drinks business behind such brands as Johnnie Walker and Guinness, and...
...Lori Bartman, director of development for the Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, says Kara Walker canisters valued at $750 in 1997 recently went for $6,000 at auction....
...For years, regulators have fretted over the risks of the new “attention economy”, a world where drivers, bikers, and walkers recklessly divide their attention between mobile phone, BlackBerry and iPod –...
...In a strongly worded ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the administration’s request for dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that AT&T illegally allowed monitoring of phone and email conversations without...
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