LONDON – Diana Barnato Walker, a World War II veteran who was the first British woman to pilot an airplane at supersonic speed, has died. She was 90. Walker died on April 28. Her family did not ...

BARNEY BARNATO—Richard Lewinsohn—Button ($3). U. S. financial history is crowded with accounts of self-made millionaires who never let wealth change their mining-camp habits. How rare they are in the ...

Barney Barnato would hardly recognise what’s left of the rapidly disappearing Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI), the mining empire he formed in 1889. Barnato was long gone by the time ...

After that I was a very careful pilot.” Diana Barnato was born on January 15 1918 into a hugely gifted and enterprising Jewish family. Her grandfather, Barney Barnato, began as a trader and juggler in ...

Diana Barnato Walker, who died on April 28 at 90, occupied an almost legendary position in the world of aviation: as well as being one of a handful of “Atagirls,” women who served during the war as ...