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...We care only when a famous auction house gets involved to sell on Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards or Joan Didion’s hurricane lamps or Charlie Watts’ rare book collection....
...Gorman has been at the bank for 13 years and the FT’s Josh Franklin says it’s been a good run....
...Plus, the FT’s Sylvia Pfeifer explains how the war in Ukraine has put a spotlight on tech-led defence companies....
...Considerably more fun is Sylvia Bishop’s The Midnight Thief (Scholastic, £6.99). This is an old-school (in every sense) yarn....
...It was 1935 before she received funding from the Federal Art Project, part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal, and later that year she headed to the Bowery — a place where, an official told her...
...Notable members Douglas Fairbanks (early Hollywood star), John Jacob Astor (scion of the famous business dynasty), JP Morgan (financier), Franklin D Roosevelt (US president) Gender policy Men only....
...Analysts at Jefferies placed a $3.3bn value on Total’s share of the Elgin and Franklin fields served by the evacuated platform, which experts fear could be out of action for months....
...American Isis : The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, by Carl Rollyson, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 336 pages Fifty years after Sylvia Plath’s suicide, her myth lives on....
...GDF Suez holds its interest through its shareholding in Elgin Franklin Oil & Gas, a joint venture with France’s Total....
...At 14 she was removed from the Sylvia Young Theatre School. “By the time I was 15, my parents realised I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it really,” she later said....
...On Wednesday, Cairn said that despite the LF7-1 well in the Lady Franklin block coming up dry, there were encouraging indications of oil-prone rocks....
...Cairn said its wells will be drilled in the Atammik and Lady Franklin blocks to the west of the capital Nuuk and the Napariaq and Eqqua blocks in the southern Baffin Bay west Disko area....
...Woodson, Alain Locke and John Hope Franklin – all Harvard graduates....
...It has the backing of Mr Berggruen’s long-term business partner, Martin Franklin. Bill Ackman, the activist investor who heads Pershing Square Capital Management, is also believed to be on board....
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