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...— An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s book on Elon Musk, focused on his Twitter takeover (WSJ) — The story of Quibi (Wondery) — The NY Fed Trading Desk’s Time to Shine?...
...Farrand shared the house with her maid, Clementine Walter. Walter’s little room looked out on to the yellows and hot reds, whereas Farrand’s rooms looked out on to beds of softer colours....
...Varagon chief executive Walter Owens will stay on as part of the acquisition, Man Group said. The fund makes senior secured loans to US midsized companies, especially in the healthcare sector....
...While studying at Berkeley, Milken had stumbled over a 1958 academic treatise grippingly titled “Corporate Bond Quality and Investor Experience”, by Walter Braddock Hickman....
...The run on Credit Suisse “has got every thoughtful banker and regulator in the world looking over their shoulder”, writes Robin Harding (Opinion, May 31). Congratulations to them!...
...Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane) With a long-held adoration of the great epic poem, English historian and FT gardening columnist Lane Fox presents a many-threaded study of Homer’s work...
...Saturday 25 March, 10am, Sheldonian Theatre, £7-£12.50 Chatwin, Patagonia, and the Bodleian: Searching for a NaziProminent international lawyer Philippe Sands describes his search for Nazi war criminal Walter...
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...Their romance blossoms, as never suspected before, from Glencoe to Walter Scott’s home: hence those roses in the restored garden. I will not spoil it as it is even better in French....
...“Comfort is king,” says British businessman Robin Birley when asked about the success of 5 Hertford Street, the private members’ club patronised by royals, politicians and pop stars, which he opened in Mayfair...
...A curious painting of two men on a picnic blanket (one in a bath; the other playing the clarinet) is by Willie Landels – “a famous design figure, who is still employed by Robin Birley, and was a boyfriend...
...It was converted with the help of his long-time architect and friend Basil Walter....
...“But Habeck is atypical,” wrote Walter Grünzweig, a professor of literature at Dortmund Technical University, in the European Review of Books....
...This sublime portrait from 1938 encapsulates his two lovers of the period: the blonde, youthful, guileless Marie-Thérèse Walter and the dark-haired, vulpine Dora Maar....
...It’s a bit Walter Mitty, he points out....
...Joseph Ritson, a Shakespeare critic, compiled what is still the fullest collection of the Robin Hood stories and legends....
...But Kevin Walter, co-head of global Treasuries trading at Barclays, estimates that the difference in prices between where traders were willing to buy and sell US government debt — known as the ‘bid-offer...
...In 1888 the London social observer Walter Besant wrote a chilling description of a man in his mid-forties, seen in a pub in the West India docks....
...Former Citicorp chief executive Walter Wriston later observed that “information about money has become almost as important as money itself”....
...Is she the unlovely Joan Blackett, calculating daughter of his father’s business associate, Walter?...
...Kevin Walter’s work-from-home experiment lasted mere hours....
...Robin Alexander, one of the country’s top political journalists, recently wrote a book on Merkel’s final term titled “The Decline of Power”....
...Rice hired as teachers several key Bauhaus-movement figures who had fled persecution at the hands of the Nazis, among them Josef and Anni Albers; the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius was a frequent...
...If you thought it was the economy, you went in person,” said Robin Kolodny, chair of the political science department at Temple University in Philadelphia....
...The explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, surely one of the fittest 83-year-olds on the planet, has only narrowly survived the virus after 49 days in hospital. Still, age is a blunt indicator....
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