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...original bid to compete with E.ON's all-cash offer - the German group may switch its attention instead to the British market. That's in part thanks to a U.K. government that's "pretty relaxed" about letting power providers join up with foreign suitors, says Hendrik Van Brevoort, a utilities analyst with Putnam Investment in London. "They take the attitude, it's a regulated industry ... whoever owns [British businesses], it's the same rules." To foreign shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from E.ON late last...
...money, Ward could never hold on to it himself; before turning to lobbying, he had lost his family's Wall Street fortune and made and lost two others in California. Finally, weary of Washington, Sam returned to New York, putting up at one of the best hotels, the Brevoort, "where no creditors would think of looking...
...buffs who mourn the passing of old landmarks. Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...
...Sunday afternoon in 1923 his most ambitious work, The Prophet, was read in Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...
Meanwhile decorators and Technicolorists indulge in rich reproductions of Delmonico's restaurant, the Hotel Brevoort, Barney's, a beer garden. There is also much dancing, and singing of such deathless ditties as Rosie, Waiting at the Church, Two Little Girls in Blue, plus the new catchy Goin' to the County Fair and the sure-fire My Heart Tells Me (which Miss Grable, enjoying her first bath on the screen, sings from a tall wooden bathtub...