GIGANTIC job ahead of him but doubtless nothing he can't handle. The thinking must be that anything his dad, Hans Rissmann, can do Hans Jr will be striving to do as well.
Hans Senior has occupied the hot seat at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from day one.
What lies ahead of junior is Blythswood Square, ever-entrepreneurial Peter Taylor's hotel in Glasgow, set to open in April at close on £27 million
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Formerly the Royal Scottish Automobile Club's HQ, it's apparently now what the state-of-the-art tag was invented for. Hans will be managing director and initially will commute between Glasgow and here in the West End where he runs the Bonham for the Taylor empire.
Jackpot George Oh it's all very grand in the Grange! We wonder, Jambos and Hibbies alike, where George Burley made his pile, how he managed to raise the two million for his majestic Grange mansion.
We know Mr Burley's on £400,000 a year in charge of Scotland but what, exactly, did he trouser managing Hearts? None of our business. Maybe he won the lottery.
Talented Toto Ta, ta, Toto! The passing of Tommy "Toto" McNaughton evokes anecdotes aplenty from the Edinburgh musicians who played alongside him, among them Tam White, a close pal for 40 years.
"Toto was one of the funniest guys I've known. Naturally funny. He'd have found work professionally as a comedian had he chosen that as a career. Or as a jazz singer or dancer or footballer. His goalkeeping skills got him a trial with several clubs, among them Falkirk.
"Above all he was a talented drummer and I recall a gig in West Lothian when, in the middle of a drum solo, he stormed from the stand, came back brandishing two billiard cues and used them to continue his solo. Truly a character."
Afterwords . . . . . Andre Previn, 79, resident in Manhattan and coming to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra at Christmas, strikes a humble note with: "When you're working with music that's invariably better than you are, it's difficult to be swell-headed." He and Mia Farrow are still pals, by the way.
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