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...Serial entrepreneur Reynolds has money....
...8.30 on a Saturday morning but more than 100 people were crammed into the back room of Pizza Ranch in Winterset, a small, rural town in Iowa that lays claim to being the birthplace of the film star John Wayne...
...Meanwhile his Berklee College of Music-trained bandmates (drummer Daniel “Platz” Platzman, guitarist/keyboardist Wayne Sermon and bassist Ben McKee) flaunt their jazz chops more here than on their multi-platinum...
...Aja Reynolds, an expert on urban education and critical race studies at Detroit’s Wayne State University, says such pre-prom parties mark priceless “moments of collective memory” for the whole community....
...“We felt they should have a hive,” says Héloïse Reynolds. “After all, they are living here for three weeks.”...
...Mr Reynolds Smith insists he has shareholder backing. “Our investors have an industrial mindset,” he says....
...And they reject the argument by Wayne Swan, the Australian treasurer, that miners were undertaxed during the last commodity boom, claiming the government has fudged the numbers to make them look undertaxed...
...America, Empire of Liberty: A New History By David Reynolds Allen Lane £30, 704 pages The discord between ideals and reality are the foundation of Reynolds’ sweeping study of America....
...A (slightly belated) reappraisal of his way of life recalls John Wayne in The Shootist, and evidently this is intended as more than a gore fest. The result is surprisingly dull....
...(And The Searchers itself has the opening and closing “curtains” of the famous shadowed doorway that frames John Wayne.)...
...The demon that Wayne found was subtler than almost anyone’s: a kind of sandblown unreachability....
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