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The Governor of the Bank of England is both the country's fiscal conscience and one of the most important subjects in the realm. So powerful can the post be that one governor, Montagu Norman, almost singlehanded brought down the Labor government in 1931 by publicly criticizing its extravagant...
Few bankers are better connected or more respected than this distinctly unstuffy and independent lord, who, at 46, is known in London's clubby society circles as "Rowlie." He is the heir to the Baring banking fortune, a godson of the late King George V, and son-in-law...
Jargon & Tradition. Many of today's City leaders descend from the merchant bankers who bankrolled Britain's colonial expansion and cleared whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S...
Pretzel Poses. Bacon studies man through the man-made images of photography. Barricaded in his flat with blankets across the windows, he uses reproductions from art books and sensational photos from newspapers as his models. He painted a series of gnarled, garishly colored portraits of his predecessor in agony, Vincent...
A CHURCHILL CANVAS, by John Spencer Churchill (308 pp.; Little, Brown; $5.75). Uncle could ape a gorilla as well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At...