Hints and tips:
...The less well-known Cécile Chaminade and Joseph Marx make unexpected but welcome guests at the party....
...Michael Moorcock, 76, was born in London and is a science fiction and fantasy writer, with some 100 books to his credit — among them Behold the Man; The Cornelius Quartet and Mother London....
...Surrounding Marble Row were the grand houses of business magnates Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Collis P Huntington and the Whitney family. None of these homes remains....
...I knew I’d include a few big-ticket events and have already made a belated visit to Joseph Cornell’s theatrical boxes at the Royal Academy, with the serene abstraction of Agnes Martin at Tate Modern still...
...Stuart Davis, Joseph Stella, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois and William Glackens had their first one-man shows there....
...Cornelius Vanderbilt complained that public money had been wasted on building railways “from nowhere to nowhere”....
...The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt By TJ Stiles Knopf, $37.50 Any recent misgivings about unbridled American capitalism should really come as no surprise....
...I recently read a wonderful phrase by Joseph Conrad: “To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.” It sums up the theme of the brilliant film There Will Be Blood....
...After some years, leadership passed to Joseph Cassano, a tough, Brooklyn-born trader and Drexel veteran....
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