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Alvin

American  
[al-vin] / ˈæl vɪn /

noun

  1. a town in southern Texas.

  2. a first name: from Old English words meaning “elf ” and “friend.”


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In one 2011 email he apparently claims to be friends with Louis Cheung, the president of Ping An, one of the world's largest insurance companies, and Alvin Jiang, the grandson of the former president Jiang Zemin.

From BBC

Reportedly shot in under 10 days, the film features such fun needle drops as the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love,” Gerry Rafferty’s “Family Tree” and, of all things to accompany a seduction scene, “The Girls of Rock ‘n’ Roll” sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.

From Los Angeles Times

Ratner has said he didn’t have a relationship with his father until he was teenager, citing that absence as a reason he routinely forged friendships with older men, including Alvin Malnik, a high-profile Miami Beach investor and restaurateur whom Ratner has described as a father figure.

From The Wall Street Journal

That signaling system was put together with the help of Stanford economist Alvin Roth, who also developed systems for matching kidney donors with patients and New York City schoolchildren with schools.

From The Wall Street Journal

During testimony of a key witness in the fraud trial of Archegos Capital executives, Judge Alvin Hellerstein abruptly paused the proceedings to take a FaceTime call.

From The Wall Street Journal