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...Upstairs, an exhibition space includes creations by Belgian architects such as Horta, but also Henry Van De Velde, Paul Hankar and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy....
...“Years ago I’d have suggested Paul Newman.” Ernest Shackleton was all about discovery. And today, nothing feels quite so novel as the solitude found in the icy wilderness....
...Edith Wharton was among the library’s first trustees, while Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein both contributed reviews to the library’s still existent newsletter, Ex Libris....
...Raghuram Rajan, winner in 2010 for Fault Lines, and shortlisted in 2019 for The Third Pillar, suggested Titan: The Life of John D....
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...The accomplishments of some are deservedly burnished, not least Ernest Bevin....
...henry.mance@ft.com Follow Henry Mance on myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this article: Secessionist Londoners / From Rob Hull, London EC1, UK...
...In the early days, the season along the Côte d’Azur went from September through April. The major hotels, including the du Cap, closed for the summer....
...I’d start at Petrossian where I’d get my dose of caviar for Christmas....
...Thornberry Sr was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; in 2007, Thornberry Jr voted against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons....
...For one thing, there is no agreement on how much oil the country is exporting today: estimates start at only about 1m b/d, and range all the way up to 1.9m b/d....
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...Jane Austen, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. How physically fit are you? Try me on a tennis court. What I lack in fitness I make up for in sheer dogged determination....
...The Smithsonian has digitised many but there are still 50 or so out there that I’d love to see unearthed....
...in my film / From Mr Henry David Canter...
...Poor novelists: they could only sit at their screens wailing inwardly at the realisation they would never be Henry James or, more upsettingly, that they were already Henry James but not as good....
...Henry Randall Thomas was an attending surgeon at St. Vincent’s. In four days he’d turn 36 – so he was 20 years younger than Pauline....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...The first person I ever heard “rap” was a man born in 1913 – my father, Henry Louis Gates Sr....
...If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of...
...Henry copper mine....
...from George Washington High School, excelling in mathematics and music. 1944: An accomplished clarinet and saxophone player, he joins Henry Jerome’s travelling big band....
...People were always saying, ‘Oh, go and knock on his door, he’d love to meet you.’...
...“Jack Simplot was to the potato what Henry Ford was to the automobile,” one Idaho newspaper eulogised....
...However, Weisberg argues that W’s role models are not George Bush Sr, or his cold, uber-WASP paternal grandfather, Senator Prescott Bush....
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