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...Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 3 1976; Edmund Muskie, US senator (Maine), Washington, DC, March 1 1976; Eugene...
...The mid-19th century saw the rise of characterful Brownstones in New York; Greystones in Chicago, and Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of central Paris where within old houses “a whole family occupies...
...The castle’s curator was Paul Robert-Houdin, an architect and grandson of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, a famous magician....
...But the son of a Victorian earl would probably not use so many glottal stops....
...Amsterdam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands Prof Markus Brunnermeier,Princeton University,Princeton, NJ, US Prof John Cochrane,University of Chicago,Chicago, IL, US Prof Peter DeMarzo,Stanford University Prof Eugene...
...Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev Yale £25, 704 pages In the first half of the 20th century, American communists – like communists...
...Across the Atlantic, five of the US’s first six winners of the Nobel Prize for literature had drink problems: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck....
...Photographs Sotheby’s Paris November 20 A remarkable selection of no fewer than 14 photographs by Eugene Atget is among the highlights of this sale....
...So Haynes breaks his hero down into six emblematically named characters....
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