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...Irving Berlin wrote Bugs’s song at the request of Treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr as part of a celebrity-soaked propaganda campaign to fund the war....
...Bruce Goff, an eccentric, organic and wacky acolyte of Frank Lloyd Wright, is often credited with getting there first....
...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...And this was his Republican opposite number, committee chair Bruce Westerman: “It’s a policy that is shortsighted political pandering and will do nothing but drive the cost of energy even higher.”...
...“There are amazing runs among the woods where you feel you are alone in the wilderness,” says Bruce Cheung, a Singaporean Wagyu cattle farmer from Western Australia, describing the joy of skiing in Furano...
...JPMorgan has named Alex Bruce as head of Emea M&A for its financial sponsors group, and tapped Nitin Maheshwari as head of Asia-Pacific strategic investors group M&A....
...From Lenny Bruce to Dave Chappelle. And we need that. Everyone needs that.”...
...What was the collective nickname for the group of showbiz friends in the 1950s and 60s, who included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra?...
...Undaunted, they’re touring the US this coming year, while Bruce Springsteen (a mere 74) is resuming the world tour he began in ’23; Madonna (just 65) is continuing her Celebration tour....
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...And the mayor of Hoboken is openly musing about challenging the first-term representative Robert Menendez Jr for the congressional seat delivered to him by his father....
...influential proxy advisers, Institutional Shareholder Services, Glass Lewis and Egan-Jones, which provide guidance on board votes and shareholder resolutions, have recommended that investors should vote against Frank...
...Six board seats are due to be voted at the annual shareholder meeting in June including the positions held by Steinberg and Frank Salerno, WisdomTree’s chair since 2019....
...“We appreciate the confidence the FDIC has placed in us,” said First Citizens’ chief executive Frank Holding Jr....
...Davi, the Bond villain, has got up on stage and is crooning out Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” but with some of the words changed: “Trump did it hiiiiiiis wayyy.”...
...“BT is going to need capital and she’s going to have to make some of those same decisions that she made at Telia,” said Brookfield boss Bruce Flatt....
...as we gather some of the biggest names in finance and dealmaking including Competition and Markets Authority chief Sarah Cardell, Bridgewater’s co-chief investment officer Bob Prince and Brookfield boss Bruce...
...as Howard Hughes and cinema magnate Charles Skouras Jr....
...Following the easing of Dodd-Frank rules for community banks, smaller financial institutions have also invested more in riskier assets owned by private equity and hedge funds (as have other institutions...
...Her father Jack worked for Frank Hogan, who reigned as Manhattan district attorney for 32 years and is the namesake for the office’s current address, One Hogan Place....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...Extending this loose dynasty, “King of the Jungle”, a sculptural seat with a bottle wrapped in chains, hinting at addiction as a new enslavement, is by Dial’s son Thornton Jr....
...I have Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and St Vincent. One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...But Frank Holding Jr., the bank’s chief executive and third-generation scion of the family business, has committed to the challenge....
...The actor Robert Downey Jr created his own Instagram reel when she sent him samples to try. “He was so sweet. I’m friends with Robert and his wife Susan, but I didn’t ask him to do that,” she says....
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