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Article: New York legend.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to ...
The Atlantic;  December 1, 2008 ;     636 words ...Jed Perl's article ("The Man Who Remade the Met," October Atlantic) pays due tribute to Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Philippe de Montebello and raises several interesting points about museums today. However, one sentence is damaging, indeed downright wrong: "The Boston Museum of Fine Arts,

Article: Sgt. York: legend of World War I // He'll be ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 22, 1987 ;     700+ words ..."Armed with his rifle and pistol, his courage and skill, he silenced a German battalion of 35 machineguns, killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132." So reads a French monument to a Tennessee mountaineer that will be dedicated on Memorial Day. He was Sgt. Alvin Cullum York, a conscientious

Article: New York legend retains his title as the master of ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  September 1, 2006 ;     519 words ...Byline: SCOTT MANSON IF THERE'S a retirement home for ageing club DJs it must have gone bankrupt by now because none of these guys looks like ever hanging up their headphones. Paul Oakenfold, Tim Westwood and Pete Tong still regularly top the bill despite being on the wrong side of 40. Clearly,

Article: A New York legend.
PR Week (US);  June 23, 2008 ;     428 words ...When the new, two-story Starbucks opened in the Empire State Building on June 12, the franchise invited an old favorite of the skyscraper - King Kong. One of its largest stores in Manhattan and the first to carry the company's new Mastrena espresso machine, Starbucks also brought in Christine

Article: Kiwi journalist a New York legend
Sunday Star-Times;  August 18, 2002 ;     568 words ...NEAL TRAVIS Journalist. Born Otago, April 8, 1940. Died New York, August 14, aged 62. IT'S a far cry from being a tea boy in Dunedin to becoming the best-read columnist in New York, but Neal Travis managed the transition. He was, wrote fellow New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, "about the best

Article: Collins' performance might soon become New York ...
The Washington Times;  January 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ...EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Phil Simms is a legend in these parts, dominating talk of New York Giants football seven years after his retirement. And why not? Simms was the star quarterback of two Super Bowl champions. He still lives in nearby Franklin Lakes. And, until recently, the Giants couldn't

Article: ARTS NOTES; Local actor is New York legend
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Braintree resident David Giagrando will make a titular turn as Fiorello LaGuardia in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Fiorello!" April 12 to 27 at Arlington Friends of the Drama Theatre. "Fiorello!" tells the story of LaGuardia's rise to fame as New York's charismatic and much-loved three-term