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...Wanda Austin has been nominated to join the Apple board. She is the former chief executive of the Aerospace Corporation....
...US law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has named Steven Green, Randall Jackson and Meng Lu as new partners....
...In which Indiana steel town was Michael Jackson born? Which female member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created the Doctor Who theme music? What was Lord Bryon’s middle name?...
...Showtime has involved an impressively long run for the now octogenarian “queen of rockabilly” Wanda Jackson. Encore is both her 32nd album and her intended final studio recording....
...The nature of money itself has captured the minds of a number of authors, including FT leader writer Gavin Jackson, whose book Money in One Lesson (Macmillan, January) seeks to explain how and why money...
...They met Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock, and in 1950 had shown American and European painters such as Jean Dubuffet and Mark Rothko....
...Denise Coates, the head of gambling group Bet365, was paid £323m last year, setting a new record for a chief executive of a UK company....
...Conviction , by Denise Mina, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 Is the podcast becoming a plot device in the crime writer’s armoury?...
...Sunday evening reads The man war-gaming a Corbyn government The north east’s ‘mini recession’ Denise Coates, the quiet queen of online betting from Stoke Local government’s gamble on commercial property...
...But then, how do you replace a person like Denise Coates?”, adds Mr Topping....
...Where female musicians are concerned, the exhibition’s highlights include the Gibson SG guitar played by rock’n’roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wanda Jackson’s acoustic guitar, Joan Jett’s sticker-adorned...
...Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Football Club paid €42m to land star Colombian striker Jackson Martinez, making him one of the world’s highest paid footballers....
...But a Bridport town “nirvana” — a Georgian house with a substantial garden and garaging still within walking distance of the centre — would require closer to £1m, according to Denise Bell of Jackson-Stops...
...Property conglomerate Dalian Wanda also bought Infront Media, the Swiss sports marketing group....
...(NAR) Video of the day China’s Wanda starts theme park war with Disney Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group, is hoping his $3bn investment in Wanda City will win over China’s booming middle...
...Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group describes the project — essentially a city within a city built around a cluster of movie studios — as “the world’s largest investment of its kind in the film industry”....
...US stocks ended last week down slightly from record highs following the keynote speech on labour markets by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen at the annual Jackson Hole meeting. Ms....
...Her third album wears its retro-style as proudly as a quiff, May essentially updating Wanda Jackson’s rockabilly-queen act, but she sings it like she means it: “Gypsy in Me” is a magnificently delivered...
...Jackson....
...Ortega’s spirited vocals have the twang of Patsy Cline and throaty vibrato of Wanda Jackson; the music is noir-Americana, classic country with a twist of rockabilly....
...rock ‘n’ roll and exotica records to play on the radio, White covers them with a genuine 1950s relic: Wanda Jackson, the “Queen of Rockabilly” and one-time girlfriend of Elvis Presley....
...In the past it has been attended by the Clintons, the Duchess of York, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. This year’s the performers include Jennifer Hudson and Estelle....
...So it’s a series of impersonations of Jackson? Er, no....
...Of the actors, it is saying something when Denise Van Outen as performance artist Maureen is the most assured performer (she even starts working the audience), although Francesca Jackson as her lover Joanne...
...Denise van Outen popped out of a cake, à la Marilyn Monroe, an image that would have been indelible if not for Monday’s photo, as Marilyn, of Jade Goody....
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