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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of ...
His paternal grandfather was Richard Mortimer, a real estate investor and member of Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Through his father and paternal grandmother, Eleanor Jay Chapman Mortimer , she was a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay ...
In 1861, Winthrop was married to Charlotte Troup Bronson (1840–1872), [13] [14] the daughter of Frederic Bronson and sister of Frederic Bronson Jr. [15] Charlotte's grandfather, Isaac Bronson, was a founder of the New York Life and Trust Company. The Winthrops lived at 23 East 33rd Street in New York. [16] Together, they were the parents of ...
In 1892, Winthrop along with his wife, daughter Marie, [6] and several members of his extended family, were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. [10] [11] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. [12]
In 2009, the Museum of the City of New York compiled its own list, entitled "The New York City 400", of the 400 "movers and shakers" who made a difference in the 400 years of New York City history since Henry Hudson arrived in 1609. McAllister was "the only person on the original Four Hundred to also make the museum's list." [22]
Frederic Winthrop (1906–1979) was a gentleman farmer who presided over his 600-acre (2.4 km 2) estate in Hamilton and Ipswich, Massachusetts. Frederic Winthrop was the father of five sons including Grant Forbes Winthrop who is a partner at Milbank, & Winthrop, a private investment firm in New York City.
New Valley, The Witkoff Group and Winthrop Realty Trust Acquire 701 Seventh Avenue Prime Times Square Area Real Estate To Be Redeveloped For Retail and Potential Hotel Site NEW YORK--(BUSINESS ...
Winthrop is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Stockholm in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census , it had a population of 510. The community is in northeastern St. Lawrence County, in the northeastern part of the town of Stockholm.