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...Somerset, Union, Tavern, Algonquin, St. Botolph and—for women—Chilton Clubs represented the hub of The Hub. The stature of these clubs was so elevated that no one could aspire to the city’s first circle of power without joining one, or better still, several...
...Somerset, Wis., Timothy Dove, who heads a 17-year-old family business called Action Battery, which sells and installs industrial batteries, has lost a quarter-million-dollar account and faces the prospect of more losses to come. This is the result of an order by the U.S. government...
...good of society. Chances are, it's not what the judge envisioned either when he sentenced John Bedarka, a Pennsylvania coal miner, to life without parole for shooting his wife's lover to death 30 years ago. But Bedarka is still in prison at Laurel Highlands correctional institution in Somerset, Pa., in frail health, severely depressed and a threat...
...Born in Somerset, England, Wheeldon entered the Royal Ballet School at nine and started making up his own dances shortly thereafter. Hired by the Royal Ballet in 1991, he spent two restless years in the corps. Fascinated by the ballets of Balanchine, N.Y.C.B.'s founder, he left for New York City and took class with the company. "If I hadn't done that," he says, "I might still be back in London, standing on the side of the stage holding a tray." Instead, ballet master in chief Peter Martins, always on the lookout for promising young male dancers, offered...
Only 39, Glyn Maxwell is an accomplished poet, being likened to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost. He is the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forester Prize, and The Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...