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...During the decade, Dick Goodwin became close to two presidents — John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — and played an important role in the 1968 White House campaigns of both insurgent senator “clean” Eugene...
...Bloch, as he reminded us, studied violin with Eugène Ysaÿe —the “biggest rock star of the violin, when violinists were rock stars”....
...Why It’s a short walk to Jardin du Ranelagh, a landscaped park created in 1860 by Georges-Eugène Haussmann. The 850ha Bois de Boulogne is also close by....
...If Ke2 2 Kc1 Kf1 3 Kd2 mate (composed by Otto Wutzburg). Chess: 2360 1 a4! g4 2 Qa3! Bxb5+ 3 axb5 mate. The trap is 1 Qf5?? threatening 2 Qc8 mate, when Black’s Bxb5+ checks the white king....
...Hunter S Thompson used to write out pages of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby so he could “feel” what it was like to be a great writer....
...In 1960, media reports of dark forces behind John F Kennedy’s winning presidential campaign caused what Jill Lepore calls a “national hullabaloo”....
...Shapiro is particularly taken by the artist association called Group f/64 (named after an aperture setting)....
..., majority leader of the Senate, Washington, DC, March 2 1976; Nelson Rockefeller, US vice-president, New York, June 28 1976; Emanuel Celler, former US congressman (New York), New York, August 12 1976; F...
...“No one needs that much f**king money,” says another. “The rich hate you,” says a third. The most common are “Tax Amazon” and “Housing is a human right.”...
...It meant he could never play contact sports and he was later classified as 4-F by the military....
...In wild weather, which is common in this elemental part of the world, great waves crash over it, says Frank Otto Røiseland, one of Norway’s last two lighthouse keepers....
...But even such a wily old pro as F Murray Abraham can’t quite turn his character’s rambling Oedipal yearnings into compelling theatre....
...‘Don’t waste your f***ing time,’ I was told.” I mention the information we have gleaned from Wächter’s personal documents, the ones left behind in the monastery where he was hidden....
...Obit did not mention Naipaul’s best book: letter from John F May, Bethesda, MD, US Your perceptive obituary of V S Naipaul should have mentioned ‘A Bend in the River’ (1979), which is probably the best...
...Stockholm’s Thielska Galleriet has a collection of paintings of the city by Eugène Jansson....
...“I was like, this is so f***ed up. And here I am talking about beauty.”...
...In 1965 Eugene Fama, the famed Chicago economist, first articulated his “efficient markets” hypothesis, which stipulated that securities fully reflect all known information, and the market cannot be beaten...
...He worked for both the Office of Strategic Services and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency, and may or may not have been the inspiration for the shadowy CIA officer linked to John F Kennedy’s...
...To October 15, tate.org.uk Photographs: Collection of the Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art; August Sander Archiv, Cologne/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn/DACS; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid...
...“My name was called because my mother’s cousin, Otto, had a girlfriend who worked for the Jewish committee that had made this arrangement with the . . . foreign office,” she says....
...Xavier Niel, the French billionaire tech entrepreneur who backs the Parisian start-up hub Station F (where the working language is English), told Paris’s Anglo-American Press Association: “I don’t think...
...Why Eugene O’Neill, the US playwright and Nobel laureate in literature, formerly owned “Bellevue”....
...Built in 1929 by French engineer Eugène Freyssinet, Station F’s home retains much of the historical building’s original features, including dramatic wooden beams and train carriages....
...The Dutch East India Company established a trading post on the island of Deshima, in Nagasaki Bay, and in 1862 Antoon F Bauduin, would become the first Dutch photographer to work in Japan, which at that...
...The painting, now believed to be of a mistress during Rivera’s first marriage, was sold by the NBC foreign correspondents and film-makers Eugene and Natalie Jones, who bought it in 1976....
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