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...The opening cast included William Bracewell (an impressive debut as Dante) and seven other principals, but the soloists shone just as brightly....
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...“Emily [Blunt] is a best friend – and [Robert] Downey [Jr],” he says of the “surrogate family” who have been with him throughout. “I couldn’t have got through it without them....
...The 120 artists represented include Dorothea Lange, William Klein and other giants of the medium....
...Since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr took office last year, the Philippines has been discussing a resumption of joint patrols in those waters with the US, its traditional ally....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...His father Cornelius was a curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston....
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Called frankly “Australis incognita”, it is conveniently big enough to accommodate a dedicatory panel to Blaeu’s learned friend Cornelius Petrius, “a mathematician of singular renown”....
...Two years ago, Benglis bought the mansion once owned by the chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which she calls her “foundation house”....
...1976; John 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...
...The company was owned by the family of Sir William Wright, its 92-year-old founder....
...Additional reporting by Sarah Neville, Sylvia Pfeifer, Daniel Thomas, Nathalie Thomas and Helen Warrell...
...Others thought it positively Gatsby-esque, with a languid southern twist, befitting the birth of Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr, the son of a college professor, in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2, 1930....
...Lewis Jr, the co-chairman of investment banking at Lazard who served on the committee from 2006 to 2008....
...Not to be outdone, William’s brother Cornelius hired the same architect to build The Breakers, a 70-room mansion made of alabaster, marble and mosaic in the style of the Italian Renaissance....
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
...Cornerstone Baptist Church, overseen by its pastor Chris Simmons, sits on Martin Luther King Jr Bvd, a few minutes south of Dallas’s downtown....
...Kraus Jr, based in New York, or Robert Hershkowitz, in Sussex. Kraus was showing camera lucida drawings from 1850 by Sir John Herschel, the astronomer and photography pioneer....
...On one level, Robin’s is simply a more strident version of William F Buckley, Jr’s sympathetic definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.”...
...A fortnight or so later, Marion Barry holds his signature event of the year, his “State of the Ward” address, at a high-ceilinged modern church on Martin Luther King Jr Avenue in Anacostia....
...The photography contingent, for instance, now includes New Yorkers Robert Hershkowitz and Hans P Kraus Jr, plus Hamiltons Gallery, Michael Hoppen and Blanca Bernheimer....
...HCA co-founder Thomas Frist Jr, older brother of Sen Frist, contributed $950m and received a nearly 19% stake in the newly private company. About 1,400 HCA executives also received equity....
...If the young William Styron (1925-2006) had been familiar with Thomas Mann’s famous definition of the writer as “one to whom writing comes harder than to anybody else”, he might have taken heart....
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