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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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...The writing was on the wall, when in 1964, under the inspired leadership of Thomas Watson Jr, IBM announced the System 360 family....
...At the company’s April 29 annual meeting, CalPERS will withhold votes for Lewis; Temple Sloan Jr., lead director, Compensation Committee chairman; Thomas Ryan, Nominating & Governance Committee chairman;...
...Thomas C. Baxter, Jr., executive vice president and general counsel, said, “There is no doubt that 2008 was one of the most challenging years in the New York Fed’s history....
...Another member was William Seward, senator from New York, whom Lincoln had beaten to the Republican nomination....
...Samuel Palmisano of IBM, while admitting that “I don’t have as much time to read as I used to”, paid tribute to a former Big Blue boss, Thomas Watson Jr, who wrote Business and Its Beliefs....
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