When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
COSMO MACERO JR. By going public through demutualization and scrapping a push for controversial holding companies legislation, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. leaves a few things behind. Specifically: At least one five-figure lobbyist, plenty of sniping consumer activists, and a few...
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Forward 07-21-2000 The Fray Fray In his 1975 film "Annie Hall," Woody Allen sends up a distinctive form of Jewish paranoia by having his character complain to a friend that he is surrounded by menacing gentiles. One non-Jewish associate, he reports, asked about...
