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...There are also few biographers who have had so much access to powerful people as Walter Isaacson. So his biography Elon Musk is a must-read — albeit a long and dense endeavour....
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...For every Erin Brockovich there’s a Walter Peck, the Environmental Protection Agency official in Ghostbusters who wants to stop our heroes operating an unlicensed nuclear reactor....
...The other was when I did well at Indianapolis in 1966 [Stewart had to retire from the lead with nine laps to go], and the Texan, John Mecom Jr, who owned the team I drove for, was so pleased with my position...
...In a dim room, Walter Cronkite’s tearful announcement plays on one wall, while mournful magazine covers line up along another....
...deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr, attorney...
...“You’re all pizzas and fairy tales,” as his old sparring partner John Lennon once told him. (“I almost made that an album title,” McCartney said in 1986.)...
...Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, 70, appointed by George H W Bush John Roberts, 63, appointed by George W Bush Samuel Alito Jr., 68, appointed by George W Bush Stephen Breyer, 79,...
...Also at the meeting were Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law....
...Susan Sarandon and Princess Margaret among a glossy cast of thousands; these friendships are offset against some of his equally famous rivalries, with Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and William F Buckley, Jr...
...That’s about it for this JR. We never meet the historical, many-sided Ruskin....
...had eaten a live hamster in a sandwich; the completely false story about Elton John paying to have sex with a rent boy....
...Winston’s brother, William Jr, re-entered the operation....
...john.gapper@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/johngapper...
...Sassoon was, after all, not only the first global name in haircare but the first person to put his name on products, to have a school, to export his style; he is the man who paved the way for John Frieda...
...John Gapper is the FT’s chief business commentator...
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...Walter Kiechel makes the list with The Lords of Strategy, an exploration of the corporate “strategy revolution”....
...The death of Walter Leland Cronkite Jr at the age of 92 calls to mind a golden age of American television news journalism of which he, as the authoritative longtime anchorman for the CBS Evening News, was...
...The Fall of the Berlin Wall By William F Buckley Jr John Wiley & Sons £13.50, 212 pages FT Bookshop price: £10.80 Behind the Berlin Wall By Patrick Major OUP £60, 352 pages The Year that Changed the World...
...and directors Jackie Ward, Robert Tillman, Monica Lozano, Walter Massey, Thomas May, Patricia Mitchell, William Barnet, III, Frank Bramble, Sr., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles...
...John Conyers, chairman of the House judiciary committee, has said he will press for one jailed suspect’s release....
...Mr Obama has never delivered a speech that confronts his racial identity directly in the way John F....
...Allen Starr. Known as the New York Triumvirate, they were, as Rubenfeld admits, innocent of the heinous plots against Freud and his supporters that he has them concoct....
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