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...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....
...A quarter of a century after Trump Sr’s death, his son seems unable to cover roughly that amount....
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan...
...An indictment unsealed last year in federal court described how Coker, his 80-year-old father, Peter Coker Sr, and 63-year-old James Patten allegedly orchestrated financial trades that were designed to create...
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...There they make 1,800 shades by hand, using a method passed down from Henri Roché Sr, which has changed little since the 18th century....
...But the abiding influence is that of Banville’s lodestar, James Joyce....
...Meanwhile, the human rights violations under Marcos Sr are casting a shadow over investors’ perceptions of the president-elect....
...Gates’s father was a well-known lawyer and his mother came from a prominent banking family, while Buffett Sr was a member of the US House of Representatives....
...A “baby bank” offering parents help with infant essentials has also seen demand soar, founder Chris Boucher said....
...That’s because the spirit endures, and the bar encapsulates it: high stools, barefoot dress code, strong mojitos, cool breezes, big stories. nihi.com SR...
...Unlike Succession’s Logan, Obama Sr was not visible on every TV screen and every newspaper, but he still shaped his son’s outlook....
...books, including Hannah Arendt’s On Violence, Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House and James Baldwin’s Dark Days....
...For more than a year, Wendsler Nosie Sr has been living at the Oak Flat campground, 65 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona....
...Mr Vance could also pass his findings to the New York state attorney-general, Letitia James....
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...It contains internationally renowned works such as “The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals, “The Lady with a Fan” by Diego Velázquez and treasures from French painters of the 18th century including Boucher...
...Ford Sr wasn’t alive, of course, in the 1960s....
...Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World, by Andrew Hill, Pallas Athene, RRP£19.99,305 pages Bruce Boucher is the director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London Join our online book group on Facebook...
...As for the future, the British TV series Downton Abbey has lent new lustre to what Henry James called “the gilded bondage” of country houses....
...His students included David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, as well as the Los Angeles artist Richard Wyatt....
...James Eadie QC, representing the government, said the legal challenge had been brought too late, would cut across the current role of parliament and “the world has now moved many miles on.”...
...Stretching from James Brown to J Dilla, the list sets up the span of this patchy but mostly excellent double CD....
...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
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