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...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
...According to Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Guide to Wine, which popular 1970s brand “preyed on the fears . . . of an unsophisticated wine drinking public”? What was Oliver Goldsmith’s only novel?...
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...The centrepiece is the wonderful rhythmic complex that is Horse Guards, started by William Kent and finished by Wright, Robinson and Vardy in the 1750s....
...Born one of eight children to a boilermaker’s assistant and tavern owner in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron was inspired to take up baseball after listening to a speech by Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the...
...One is Willie Adams, a father of four in his thirties, who was working at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital until last year, but is now unemployed and has recently been attending Robinson’s courses...
...Chief awards organiser Natalie Earl is hoping to restage the judging process in the autumn, but as it usually takes place in the ExCeL exhibition centre, since converted into a hospital for coronavirus patients...
...“We see this as the future in this space,” says Aaron Robinson, senior sustainability manager at United Airlines....
...In 2009, Willie Walsh, then head of BA, abandoned the policy of choosing wines on the basis of what they tasted like, cutting costs by appointing a single exclusive supplier for each of the three classes...
...That’s in advance of the historical average and their rating relative to peers, writes Mark Robinson....
...CapCo’s Covent Garden development was a “truly world-class asset that would attract a premium price were it ever sold to a private buyer”, and a 23 per cent discount to net asset value meant the group’s Earl...
...the dinner included a high-profile Belgian art dealer, a City lawyer, two young French wine professionals, three of us Masters of Wine, including Anthony Hanson of Christie’s, and lifelong trencherman Willie...
...She was influenced by the painterly approach of Gertrude Jekyll and the naturalistic style of William Robinson. But when at the age of 51 her marriage foundered, she faced financial ruin....
...When it's not being used as the set for Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle in southwest England is used by the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and his wife, Lady Carnarvon....
...But CBRE’s Robinson worries these same demands might “create a lot of undevelopable land” by making construction yet more expensive....
...He may be unique in having had his favourite number — Willie Nelson’s version of “Blue Skies” — sung for him and his wife by the artist himself....
...It was a time of legends — Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Willie Mays....
...Sugar Ray Robinson tends to be the aficionado’s pick....
...Among the American painters to descend on this pocket of northern France were Cassatt, Sargent, Robinson, John Leslie Breck and Theodore Earl Butler, who would go on to marry Suzanne Hoschedé, whose mother...
...“In ‘Willie’s Lady’, Child Ballad No 6,” Mitchell explains, “there’s a line like, ‘Who was it that killed the master kid that slept under thy lady’s bed?’...
...Every one of the book’s mistakes was like a hammer-blow to me: we will come to the story of the “Wisden willie” later....
...Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, said: “This deal provides a future for BMI Regional and should secure around 330 jobs.”...
...KNIGHT COMMANDER, KBE Earl Cadogan, philanthropist. COMMANDER, CBE Lesley-Anne Alexander, chief executive, Royal National Institute of Blind People....
...“It’s a sad reflection on the industry that there are still some bad guys out there,” she told me at Cape Wine Europe, a vast generic tasting in Earls Court exhibition halls last week....
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