Heinz, hotelier Conrad Hilton, comedian David Letterman, novelist Thomas Mann, dishwasher entrepreneur Frederick Maytag, journalist H.

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The city has boasted an impressive colony of writers ever since, for their various reasons, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and F.

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Once frequented by German literary icon Thomas Mann, the bar is now a hotspot hangout for filmmakers at the annual Berlin Film Festival.

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Yeats, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin and John Cheever managed to fight with their parents, siblings and children make arguments over the dinner table seem like a specialised art form.

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Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says the parties are crafting strategies to curry favor with the public to gain a political advantage.

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Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution says that the Citizens United decision will no more determine the mid-terms than Mr Obama's outspending of John McCain in 2008 swung the presidential race.

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In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, Jascha Heifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

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While it is not known for sure whether Britten ever became sexually involved with any of the boys whom he befriended throughout his adult life, his final opera, a stage version of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" (1973), has been interpreted as a not-so-veiled apologia for those who feel similar desires.

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Second Sight is backed in part by the billionaire medical device investor Al Mann, who is its chairman, and by the legendary device inventor and venture capitalist Thomas Forgarty.

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