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Thanks to two recent events-the release of a major recording project and the publication of an exhaustively documented biography-fresh new materials for such an assessment are now at hand...
DIED. Eleanor Robson Belmont, 100, toast of the turn-of-the-century Broadway stage who became a leading fine arts patron; in New York City. A third-generation actress, Eleanor Robson triumphed in Merely Mary Ann and so impressed George Bernard Shaw that he wrote Major Barbara with her in mind. After a 1910 farewell bow before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s...
Attempts to impose further controls now seem inevitable. The Federal Reserve and West Germany's Bundesbank, which are leading the drive to put Eurocurrencies in leg irons, have already asked major countries to impose reserve requirements on foreign deposits with their banks, even if they are branches located outside the country. In addition, governments of ten leading industrial nations are trying to force all banks to show exactly how much money they have lent out abroad...
...site. He got financing from New York and Iran's Bank Omran. After the Shah fell, Canizaro bought out the Iranians. Now he is negotiating with French financiers to become partners Already the first Canal Place building promises to return a profit of $1 5 million a year. Major tenants are moving in: South Central Bell, Brooks Brothers Coopers & Lybrand. For the next buildings, Canizaro has signed up Britain's Trust Houses Forte to put in a 500-room luxury hotel and made a deal with Saks Fifth Avenue to open a store...
...predict a wholesale return of the faithful when the Times resumes on Nov. 13 and the Sunday Times on Nov. 18. To entice them, the Times is planning to spend between $2 million and $4 million on a promotional blitz. It also will publish special eight-page supplements on major issues of the past year, on developments in the arts and on books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization rights to Henry Kissinger's memoirs more than a year ago, will finally be able to print them...