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...Ethel Smyth, a leading figure among the suffragettes and too long neglected as a composer, is suddenly in the spotlight again....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...Max Levai is the son of Pierre Levai, who ran the gallery’s operations in New York while Pierre’s cousin, Gilbert Lloyd, ran the business in London....
...Mr Skeoch’s exit was abruptly announced in June, following the departure of the merger’s co-architect Martin Gilbert last year....
...Instead of retaining mortgages on its books, the privately owned company sells them on to the government guarantors Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae....
...“When my mother was pregnant with me and my twin brother, she danced on Broadway in the original Annie Get Your Gun, so we were serenaded in the womb by Ethel Merman,” he says....
...It inked a tentative $4.5bn settlement with private investors, including Blackstone, and last month agreed to pay $1.1bn to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bringing its total payments to more than $18bn....
...“For thrifts refis are the single biggest headwind,” said Collyn Gilbert, a bank analyst at Stifel Nicolaus....
...” … After Broadway by Light, he made a string of films, many of which fall under the late critic Gilbert Adair’s definition of “scattershot satire”. Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?...
...including JPMorgan Chase‘s acqusition of its stricken rival Bear Stearns, the capital injection by Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ that rescued Morgan Stanley and the restructuring of mortgage financier Fannie Mae...
...Not taking the subtle hint, Sallie Mae responded that it was still interested....
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