Word: elba
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...country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang...
...seven children she had borne. With wit and unsentimental precision she recollected the exact details of a world that had vanished as if it never existed. What delights today's reader, though, is less the firsthand history (from the 1770s until Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815) than the self-portrait that slowly emerges. The Memoirs finally trace a cameo profile of aristocracy viewed from its better side and well deserving of the definition "grace under pressure...
...company in which they have influence and, in alliance with bankers, setting up separate enterprises. Complaining of internal dissension, Cornfeld pointed to "those maniacal guys on the board." Cornfeld still has about 15% of the company's stock, and, like Napoleon trying to come back from Elba, he has been jetting from country to country, seeking to gather proxies from his sales managers for a triumphal return to power...
...Paris. More aloof than ever, he has received only a handful of the faithful, and has refused all requests for private political discussions or larger meetings. De Gaulle's notes from Colombey, written in his proud hand, are as highly prized as were Napoleon's scribblings from Elba. His invitations to lunch or dinner are as rare and valued as "an invitation to dine privately with Brezhnev or Mao," to quote one old Gaullist, who has not made...
...Palo Alto, Calif. The second is to visit once more his birthplace and the graves of his parents in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, home of so many American Mafiosi. The third, which he apparently does not tell young Hill about, is to return to power, and, like Napoleon at Elba, he still dreams of the day when he can march home and reclaim his Cosa Nostra family...