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...serve as co-editor of the Radcliffe News, was unique.“She was full of energy,” Cronin recollects. “She paced all the time, rather like a tiger in a cage.”When Whitman received the Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded to the highest academically ranked member of each class, her classmates were not surprised.“She wrote more in a blue book during an exam than I was able to write in four pages,” Cronin says. “She wrote so fast and was just...
Together the two brothers have built Tod's S.p.A. into a global luxury group with $450 million in annual sales that includes Tod's, the high-end leather-goods company; Roger Vivier, the legendary Parisian shoe brand; Hogan, a sporty sneaker and handbag brand; and Fay, a casual weekend clothing line. Four years ago, the Della Valles bought the Fiorentina soccer team, a move that has made them famous in a whole new arena?especially among young boys. It helps that the team, which was at the bottom of the league when they bought it, has since risen...
Plans are in place to launch a line of Tod's sunglasses, open 25 Tod's stores in China over the next two years, launch Fay in Asia and the U.S. (the brand is currently sold only in Europe), open more Vivier and Hogan stores and sign up Lam to design his own line of handbags...
...spectacularly expansive. Where once the Big Guy had just a handful of prehistoric creatures to deal with, he now has herds of them. But Jackson's other improvements are ludicrous, most notably the fate of poor Ann Darrow, the actress who becomes Kong's victim/love object. In the original, Fay Wray came to sympathize with the beast. But Watts plays Ann as a seductress, consciously leading the big lug on. Suffice it to say that King Kong has lost its divine innocence. And our response to the ape's doom, once touched by authentic tragedy, is now marked by relief...
...from Hambleton's gardens, changes with the seasons to incorporate game, wild mushrooms and truffles. The hostelry, perched on a slope leading down to Rutland Water, the largest man-made lake in Western Europe, has won a raft of hospitality awards, not least for its relaxed yet flawless service. "Fay ce que voudras" (Do as you like) reads an inscription in medieval French above the entrance. The exhortation was incised in Victorian times but reflects proprietor Tim Hart's service philosophy. Hart converted the 1881 Gothic and mock Tudor stone mansion from a hunting lodge to a hotel 25 years...