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...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...A brilliant irony that Victor Gruen would perhaps have appreciated....
...From Anna Sui whose collection was inspired by the graphic artist Victor Moscoso, and British designer Stuart Vevers at Coach who created a mismatched psychedelic palette having studied the work of Kaffe...
...The lawsuit also alleges that Victor Hong, a former risk manager at the bank, flagged to bosses that risky credit in the form of collateralised debt obligations needed to be reduced in value....
...Had he simply kept his temper in check and kept his petulant facial contortions to a minimum on the splitscreen, he’d probably have been declared the victor....
...It is a plaster and polystyrene elephant — 15m high with a howdah carriage on its back — the one in which the street urchin Gavroche sheltered in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables....
...Cricket pundits Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew succumb to giggles as they analyse Ian Botham’s dismissal for hitting his stumps in 1991....
...It turned out that my grandmother had known him: she used to go Scottish country dancing with Mrs Johnston, and my godmother, Joy Sinden, had been one of Mr Johnston’s nurses....
...Johnston Press lost 13.4 per cent to 5¼p and Trinity Mirror was down 3.7 per cent to 45¼p on the back of Thursday’s very weak advertising figures from Daily Mail & General Trust....
...For Robin Knox-Johnston, the circumnavigator and chairman of the Velux 5 Oceans single-handed race around the world, the new Eco 60 class of second-hand boats that will compete in the 2010-11 event embodies...
...France: “Paris has a tailoring school, the Association Formation Tailleur in Avenue Victor Hugo, where they teach all aspects of the art for men and women....
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...It had appointed NM Rothschild, the investment bank, to assist with its review, which followed the appointment of Sir Ian Gibson as the new chairman succeeding Sir Victor Blank in May....
...Shirley Johnston is the author of Egyptian Palaces and Villas (Abrams, £29.95)....
...Atlantic Waves, a top juvenile from Mark Johnston's yard, is the clear form pick. But Bold and Free is a strong fancy to notch a win for Godolphin....
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