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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....
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher. King was born 16 months after Farris....
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...When we last speak, Pharrell Williams has just been appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
...As Nero drifts towards tyranny, Nathaniel Curtis’s gentle, guileless Britannicus — who gives the play its title but has no power — doesn’t stand a chance. ★★★★☆ To June 25, lyric.co.uk Girl on an Altar...
...William Conway is a major Democratic party donor. David Rubenstein, who worked for President Jimmy Carter in his early career, is considered a moderate Democrat....
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...Its SR/F can hit 124 miles per hour, yet starts at a realistic £18,990....
...On the non-fiction shelves, 2019 brought David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth and Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth, while Sweden’s Andreas Malm captured the rising fury of climate activists with How...
...It’s habit-forming. jkplace.paris Alexandra Marshall Westlight at The William Vale, New York I wanted to hate Westlight, because to me The William Vale represents everything weird and artificial about...
...His father, Alan Duff Sr, 58, however, is clearly delighted by the prospect of having a dedicated space in which to experiment....
...Piercefield House near Chepstow was once owned by Nathaniel Wells, the son of a plantation owner and a black woman....
...As dHybrid Inc became embroiled in litigation, Mr Milton’s father, William, formed a new company in October 2012 called dHybrid Systems, which was legally distinct from dHybrid Inc and owned solely by William...
...She embarks on a disquisition about how America’s real culprits are those who enable her uncle to do what he does — people such as William Barr, the US attorney-general, Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of...
...While Elliott signalled Jonathan Pollock would be successor to Paul Singer in 2015, Mr Singer Sr remains the driving force behind the firm....
...Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford law professor and co-chair of Social Science One, said many academics were “deeply frustrated” with Facebook but that “their privacy objections [were] not frivolous”....
...Or at least, that’s the way ex-convict William Thornhill sees it....
...Almost 30 years ago, William Barr helped push the boundaries of presidential power as one of the youngest US attorneys-general ever to serve....
...William Burns ranks among the foremost American diplomats of his generation, serving five presidents and 10 secretaries of state. His memoir is a plain-spoken defence of an unfashionable craft....
...He also studied privately with William Curtis, founder of the Botanical Magazine, among much else. Curtis was running the Brompton Botanical Garden, one of Hosack’s inspirations....
...and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner (April), which at least tries to suggest some countermeasures, while Picador fields Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel...
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
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