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...The Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin is at Philip Mould & Company from 5 June to 11 August; Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin by Michael Bloch and Susan Fox can be bought at bloomsburystud.net...
...The 18th-century portrait of the Pacific Islander is said by officials briefed on the matter to belong to John Magnier, the Irish billionaire horse-stud owner, and is in storage in the UK....
...Back in the city I buy an eye-bleedingly expensive ticket to a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods....
...Magnier took over the Coolmore Stud in Tipperary with partners in 1975 and turned it into a global success. Magnier soon collided with Tate....
...It was the first in a series of transactions that took GVC from what senior independent director Stephen Morana described as a “tin pot operator” in the sector’s “Wild West” days to a FTSE 100 heavyweight...
...The great American master of 20th-century oral history, Studs Terkel, saw work as a quest for “daily meaning as well as daily bread”....
...“The Chinese diamond jewellery market has been the fastest growing in the world over the past decade,” says Stephen Lussier, chief executive of Forevermark, one of diamond miner De Beers’ jewellery brands...
...Its Cogent Breeding business is the UK’s biggest bull stud and sends semen to 40 countries....
...Rugby fans will be looking forward to the body slams, stud raking and ear ripping of the Australia/New Zealand match on Saturday. Rugger is so much cleaner than football....
...These were Courtown Demesne and Castlemartin stud farms, both in County Kildare, which sold last December....
...More recently, Lebedev set up a meeting here between David Cameron and Stephen Fry to discuss gay rights in Russia before the Winter Olympics. Does he socialise with the prime minister?...
...Now Anglo American stands accused of jeopardising two billion-dollar stud farms....
...Sir, Tony Blair could well have profited from the example of his predecessors as prime minister (Philip Stephens, May 2 and letters)....
...His minority Liberal government was bleeding support on the left and right alike, with the newly constituted Conservative party, led by Stephen Harper, now a real threat to Liberal ascendancy....
...Or they are flashier (big-name authors such as Stephen King or JK Rowling pulling off the magic trick of a genre shift)....
...And if you look at the trainers and the studs, there are a lot of women involved in those businesses.”...
...Balmain’s ripped T-shirts, studs and zipped leather trousers shifted the focus to punk, like the bondage straps decorating Riccardo Tisci’s clothes for Givenchy....
...Another exemplar is celebrity jeweller Stephen Webster, who has a knack for wearing stage-style suiting with confidence....
...Stephen Jones, milliner: “There is nothing more depressing than rampant optimism....
...But you don’t necessarily have to fork out for a Philip Treacy or Stephen Jones number. At John Lewis’s in-house hat-making class you can craft your own for less than a tenner....
...Stephen Lussier, De Beers’ executive director of external and corporate affairs, is a man you might expect to be somewhat rattled by the dramatic headlines and restructuring of the past year....
...Troy is hardly the Stephen Hawking of black labradors. In fact, he would be outsmarted by two short planks....
...Work is life, as the late Studs Terkel said. We should rub out that firm black line that separates our lives and our careers....
...Emma Willis is currently making a black shirt shot with burgundy for the comedian Stephen Merchant....
...Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey make just a few dozen of their exotic tourbillons a year with starting prices of about £170,000 and waiting lists that stretch into the years....
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