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...Violet (Caroline Sheen) is the company veteran passed over for promotion, and Judy (Amber Davies) is the office newbie forced into employment after her husband has left her....
...The modern era of popular song was for its first few decades one in which the singer — Judy Garland, say, or Frank Sinatra — was not the songwriter; that was someone else’s job....
...Two Jewish American songwriters — both sons of immigrants — were commissioned by the studio to knock out a number for 16-year-old Judy Garland....
...The trail of blue blood leads back to Franklin Roosevelt and the Kennedys....
...Judy Collins’ celebrated 1970 version sprang from her battle with alcohol abuse: she said the song helped her “pull through”....
...“For a long time everyone just remembered that brokerages did well during the 2007 bull market and then badly when the market fell and trading commissions dried up,” said Xu Lirong, fund manager at Franklin...
...Sugimoto’s own stark, black and white portrait “Benjamin Franklin”, based on a wax model, hangs alongside....
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