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...The later Timurids — dubbed “the Oriental Medici” by the 20th-century travel writer Robert Byron — transformed themselves into refined connoisseurs of painting, poetry and calligraphy....
...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...His witness William Pitt (then prime minister) became too emotional to sign the register....
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...of her father William Godwin....
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...Farris was born in 1927 into a middle-class family in Atlanta. She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher....
...“She moves along a wall of pictures, some unattributed and others by William Hogarth or Thomas Gainsborough, gesturing at the changes in skirt shape....
...He becomes a marriage counsellor to Percy Shelley (“you’re a true friend, Ross”), and establishes a rapport with Byron which he’ll dine out on for decades to come....
...Former Citigroup dealmaker Mark Shafir is joining Declan Kelly’s new advisory firm Consello as a managing partner. Serena Williams, the retired tennis star, is also joining as a senior adviser....
...Although fictional, the plane evokes Lockheed Martin’s SR-71, which in the 1960s set a speed record for a piloted jet aircraft of Mach 3.2, or 2,455mph....
...Job moves Credit Suisse’s former investment bank chief Christian Meissner is joining BDT & MSD Partners, the investment and advisory firm run by Goldman veterans Byron Trott and Gregg Lemkau, as a partner...
...Archie Byron’s tender bas-relief “Anatomy I” (1987), with limbs emerging as though from a sand dune, is made of sawdust and glue....
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...Next up, BDT Capital Partners, the merchant bank led by Goldman Sachs veteran Byron Trott, cooked up a deal to take grill maker Weber private at $3.7bn....
...Elgin became a hate figure for some in Britain, notably the great Romantic poet Lord Byron, who eventually died in the cause of Greek freedom....
...Later, in Port Byron, another historical marker solemnly informed us that a local man, Amos S King, “gifted a bible to Pres Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...It was the morning of June 22 1741, and two young Englishmen, William Windham and Richard Pococke, set out with their retinue from Chamonix in search of glaciers....
...It might seem ambitious, if not perverse, to write a 5,000-line poem inspired by a sofa, but in July 1785 William Cowper did just that....
...Daniel D’Aniello is a conservative. William Conway is a major Democratic party donor. David Rubenstein, who worked for President Jimmy Carter in his early career, is considered a moderate Democrat....
...But the book doesn’t back up the optimistic resemblances made in the introduction by its editor, the poet Paul Muldoon, to WB Yeats, Lord Byron and McCartney’s “fellow lyricist” William Wordsworth....
...Its SR/F can hit 124 miles per hour, yet starts at a realistic £18,990....
...It’s habit-forming. jkplace.paris Alexandra Marshall Westlight at The William Vale, New York I wanted to hate Westlight, because to me The William Vale represents everything weird and artificial about...
...His father, Alan Duff Sr, 58, however, is clearly delighted by the prospect of having a dedicated space in which to experiment....
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