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...As Alfred Driscoll, New Jersey’s then-governor, observed at the commission’s birth: “It recognises that organised crime does not respect state boundaries.”...
...This mild foray into imposterism made me think of Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City, a gorgeous autobiographical account of life in 1920s Brownsville, Brooklyn....
...F51 armchair by Walter Gropius for Tecta £2,860 This piece has been recreated by Tecta; it was designed by Gropius for his office when he was director of Bauhaus Weimar; conranshop.co.uk Wall shelf by...
...Somerset, with its singular landscapes and connection to nearby pilgrimage sites such as Bruton’s Dovecote, King Alfred’s Tower and Glastonbury Tor, is an ideal site for Vital’s work, says Iwan Wirth....
...In the first category is “The Vertical City”, which gathers Manhattan-besotted photography by Berenice Abbott and Alfred Stieglitz; Walter Ruttmann’s bracing short film from 1927, Berlin, Symphony of a City...
...The last he saw with his mother, a few days earlier, was Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. When he arrived at his mother’s house, it was surrounded by cops. He knew instantly she was dead....
...The author Walter Kiechel called the four decades up to 1980 “managerialism’s era of good feelings, its apogee of self-confidence”, but those feelings lingered at GE....
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth (1898-1978), second Viscount Rothermere and nephew of Alfred Harmsworth, was an MP from 1919 until 1929....
...Alongside Mr Klaus, however, the supervisory board includes Alfred Gusenbauer, the pro-EU former Austrian chancellor, and Walter Schwimmer, a former secretary-general of the Council of Europe, the human...
.../ From Alfred Pain...
...By the time Graham Greene edited a symposium in which a group of well-known authors reminisced about their education, only one, Walter Greenwood, had attended a state school....
...The star lot at the February 3 sale in London, Picasso’s rainbow portrait of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, scraped over its low estimate of £16m by £700,000....
...During the second world war an SS Colonel Walter Rauff, who had exterminated multitudes in mobile-gassing units, was assigned the job of creating a similar unit in Egypt....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...When Alfred Schindler, chairman of the lift maker, says: “What is good for Schindler is good for Switzerland,” people really believe it....
...Ivy and lichen grow over the Victorian gravestones, including the graves of Walter Pater and JW Burgon, poet of ‘Petra’ – ‘a rose red city half as old as time’....
...There were black leather editions of the complete poems of William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson, with gilded leaves, which looked as if they had been awarded as school prizes or given as improving...
...From 1933, Hitler’s chosen “philosophical” manager was Alfred Rosenberg, who was tasked with defending an ideology that would destroy democracy, pluralist toleration and individual freedom....
...Alfred Stieglitz, at his gallery 291, offered displays of African art which he meticulously photographed for his magazine Camera Work....
...His survey darts nimbly from Roman villas to Russian dachas, with a field of reference that embraces Walter Benjamin, Alfred Hitchcock and Hieronymus Bosch....
...Or perhaps on the night the Marquis of Queensberry walked in to find the Irish poet dining with his son Lord Alfred Douglas, the shock that precipitated Wilde’s downfall?...
...The Komische Oper at least has the formidable theatre legacy of Walter Felsenstein as a further distinguishing feature....
...The surname of Sun Hung Kai’s chairman is not important as long as there is a competent management team in place,” says Alfred Lau, property analyst at Bank of Communications International....
...The Pittsburgh steel heir Walter Arensberg lost himself so thoroughly in the Armory that he reportedly didn’t leave the building for several days....
...Alfred G. Buckham, who served as a reconnaissance photographer for the Royal Naval Air Service, knew all about the perils of flight....
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