David Rockefeller (born 1915), son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and became one of the most prominent bankers in the world.David Rockefeller, the fifth and ...
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After a turbulent 105th year, Brooke Astor marked the start of her 106th Friday with a birthday so quiet that she dozed through a visit from her son.The philanthropist and socialite, ensconced at h...
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New York (dpa) - Andy Warhol's dramatic 1963 silk print Green Car
Crash (Green Burning Car I) fetched a record 71.7 million dollars
Wednesday night at a Christie's auction. ...
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remember?) World Trade Center Memorial Foundation in a big way. According to a list of donors released today (PDF), more than $304 million of the foundation’s funds so far have come from dono...
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What a Tuesday for Jerry Speyer! First, his firm partners with Lehman Brothers to buy apartment behemoth Archstone-Smith in a historic deal worth $22.2 billion. Then, the board of trustees of the M...
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Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2007. There are 202 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 12, 1987, President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of B...
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Brooke Astor's funeral, which the Manhattan socialite had planned for years, will resemble the parties she hosted _ an A-list of movers and shakers in the worlds of culture, politics and business.G...
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New York's wealthy power brokers united in mourning with its working-class citizens Friday as the city that Brooke Astor loved so dearly bid a bittersweet farewell to the philanthropist and society...
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The great editor Clay Felker, who invented so much of what drives this newspaper and so many magazines in New York City, liked to refer to New York as the “City of Ambition,” a phrase c...
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Brooke Astor, the great philanthropist and 105-year hold-out among a dying breed of old New York socialites, died at her Briarcliff Manor estate yesterday afternoon.
And today, New York's newspaper...
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David Rockefeller
Quiet 105th birthday for socialite Astor
