Hints and tips:
...Sumptuously recorded, and using a new edition by Wilson, it is an album that promises to set the standard for a generation....
...Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has joined the line-up for the FT Weekend Festival US edition on May 4 in Washington DC....
...“The regulatory environment is having an impact,” said Charles Rule, a lawyer at Rule Garza Howley who specialises in antitrust matters....
..., Claudia Von Alemann and Jean-Charles Hue and the best of this year’s competition....
...Job moves Blackstone has appointed Thomas Nides, a former vice-chair at Morgan Stanley and US ambassador to Israel, to be a vice-chair of strategy and client relations....
...As she writes in the Waterstones special edition of the novel, she felt that “the book was hardly mine at all, and I’d only been dragged in at the last minute to write it — to do the grunt work”....
...Delighted to be here with you today hosting this special live edition, we’ve got a brilliant panel lined up. Michael Gove is, of course, our special guest today....
...Old, faded books, denuded of their wrappers, will appear next to garish new paperbacks, pocket guides beside fat multi-volume editions....
...Both his father, the garrulous, often-drunken Henry, and his uncle Thomas were executioners for the British state....
...The Grade II-listed house dates to 1827 and, like its neighbours on the garden square, was designed by master builder Thomas Cubitt....
...and Thomas Hart Benton’s “Approaching Storm” (1940)....
...Our US edition of the FTWeekend Festival is back! Join Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, Jancis Robinson, your favorite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online....
...This year, The Folio Society has been celebrating 75 years since Charles Ede founded it in 1947. Ede believed that commercial books could – and should – be produced to the highest standards....
...Among his thousands of books are first editions by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens — a three-volume Great Expectations is offered for £3,000-£5,000 (1861, Chapman and Hall)....
...Now try this I’ve written about the most important of issues for the next edition of HTSI: boots! Also featuring a photo shoot with one of my more ostentatious suits....
...(The treatises would be studied by Charles Darwin, though they steered him to the opposite conclusion.)...
...Charles Ponzi was a small, dapper conman. His modus operandi was as follows. Promise stellar returns from market investments....
...Charles III, the new king, is known to be more of a polo fan. Transition is something of a theme in this edition of the newsletter....
...An edition of his “Lobster” (2007-12) was bought for $6.9mn in 2016 but sold on for $3.8mn this week....
...There was strong British interest but also considerable international bidding, says Charles Cator, deputy chair of Christie’s International....
...Jefferies has hired Thomas Blackmore as head of FIG debt capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...I could write a whole note about poor old Prince Charles but the Financial Times is biased towards more consequential successions....
...” (Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain)....
...One thing to start: Welcome to the second to last edition of DD for this year. After tomorrow’s edition, you won’t hear from us again until Tuesday, January 12....
...The FT’s Thomas Hale and Yuan Yang report from the country where cue-sports have been embraced like no other....
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