Word: covent
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Insurance Policy. Source of the new money was the Second Covent Garden Property Co. Ltd., a London real estate giant with holdings worth more than $56 million. In return for $43,750,000 in British financing and new bank money, Second Covent Garden will become equal partners with Webb & Knapp in a new firm called Zeckendorf Property Corp., which is to be created by splitting off 13 Webb & Knapp urban renewal projects from New York to Los Angeles. Zeckendorf will be chairman and chief executive officer of the new company, and Son Bill Jr., who did much of the negotiating...
...Second Covent Garden decided to team up with Zeckendorf in the U.S. in order to break into the lucrative American real estate market. But to ensure that their cash would not be hustled into visionary new Zeckendorf expansion schemes, the British placed five representatives on the ten-man board of Zeckendorf Property. In addition, by acquiring a 15% interest in Webb & Knapp itself, London's Philip Hill Group, with which Second Covent Garden is affiliated, gets the right to place the first outside block of three directors on the Webb & Knapp board...
...British mean to see that it stays that way in Zeckendorf Property. Said Henry R. Moore, lanky director of Philip Hill and vice chairman of Second Covent Garden: "In the past. Father Zeckendorf has been inclined to take on more than he can handle." But now, said Moore, with enough British directors on hand to exert a veto, "we have effective control. Bill Zeckendorf may be management, but anything we don't like won't happen...
...Wagnerian roles because "I had the build for it" (she stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 224 Ibs., now weighs 170). Eventually, on the advice of her husband, Australian Pianist Richard Bonynge, she decided that the bel canto repertory was where she belonged. She put in seven years at Covent Garden while developing the voice that would lead...
...Western front, Thomas Edward Lawrence was an irresistible figure, cut to the bias of every romantic schoolboy's fantasy. His apotheosis was not long in coming. It occurred one night in September 1919, when an audience studded with Cabinet members and ambassadors jammed London's Covent Garden to hear Lowell Thomas lecture on Lawrence, the Uncrowned King of Arabia. It was a rousing occasion; the Welsh Guards played background music, and an Irish tenor rendered the Moslem call to prayer. The lecture, repeated round the world over the next four years by Commentator Thomas, was seen and heard...