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...In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile in cotton shorts and top. In 1979, Sir Ranulph Fiennes crossed the Arctic wearing a 100 per cent Ventile cotton suit....
...Roger Federer is hanging up his racket after a stellar career spanning more than 1,500 matches and 20 Grand Slam titles. “I wish this day would have never come....
...Todd Youngblood’s uncle, Charles Hall, invented the modern waterbed in San Francisco in 1968. It accounted – I can hardly believe this – for 22 per cent of US domestic mattress sales in 1987....
...No Roger Federer....
...Instead, Raine has gone with US financier Todd Boehly and investment firm Clearlake Capital, backed by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss....
...Despite the darkening economic outlook, Todd Boehly, who led the takeover of Chelsea, was sanguine this week about the club’s prospects....
...Then came her turn in 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as a squeaky cartoon shoe that gets plunged into a vat of acid by Christopher Lloyd’s live-action villain Judge Doom. It’s oddly harrowing....
...UK government clears £4.25bn Chelsea FC sale The UK government has finally signed off the £4.25bn sale of Chelsea Football Club to American financier Todd Boehly....
...The league has described the suit as meritless, though commissioner Roger Goodell has conceded that, especially among coaching staff, the lack of diversity is “unacceptable”....
...Todd Harrison Now we see China building a space station of its own, developing a lunar exploration programme of its own....
...Clearlake Capital is providing more than half the capital for US financier Todd Boehly’s group to buy Chelsea....
...Roger Barron, Paul Hastings’ global vice-chair of M&A based in London, is leaving the firm to enter private practice....
...Membership £20 every quarter, renude.co Running Nurvv Jonathan Margolis introduced us to Nurvv Run’s smart insoles late last year....
...And Roger Daltrey of The Who has revealed that in the 1960s the band used to glue together the guitars they supposedly smashed on stage....
...jonathan.margolis@ft.com...
...We spoke to its chief executive Roger Lynch about the acceleration of its digital transformation. 3....
...For Roger Garside, today’s rulers in Beijing are less secure than they may appear. In China Coup (University of California Press, May), he ponders the end of one-party rule....
...‘Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy’, by Barbara Kellerman and Todd L Pittinsky Lust is an innate, insatiable force that marks extraordinary leaders out from ordinary ones,...
...Look at the career of British philosopher Roger Scruton, who after his death last month was held up as a martyr to PC....
...Blakemore, Walsall Polymath 1,024: Linda Parry, Cheshire Crossword 16,176: John Edwards, Llanon; R Gill, March; Brian Smith, Ayrshire Polymath 1,023: Peter Tarleton, Ireland Crossword 16170: Chris Todd-Davies...
...Tech tools — Playpilot streaming guide A new form of entertainment management is developing — streaming aggregators, reports Jonathan Margolis....
...Silicon Valley investor-turned-activist Roger McNamee....
...Former Trump adviser Roger Stone isn’t taking his own advice, showing up to court in a suit by the Savile Row tailor Richard James....
...drag Big Tech away from the dark sideSmartphones are incredibly valuable, but the apps delivered on them are the technological equivalent of sugar: easy to consume to excess, writes venture capitalist Roger...
...jonathan.margolis@ft.com @TheFutureCritic...
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