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...Wilsons are also the subject of Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House (Scribner; 608 pages; $35), a beautifully written and researched volume by Phyllis Lee Levin, whose last book was on Abigail Adams. The great Wilson partnership, which began with their marriage in 1915, grew stronger as his fame climbed. When he was stricken with debilitating strokes in 1919, Edith obscured his physical state and quite literally took over the presidency. Foreshadowing Hillary Clinton, who designed and presented a health care program that failed abysmally in part because of the resentment over her assumption of presidential authority, Edith misplayed...
...other heart-transplant surgeons, who had operated only on animals, were reluctant. An antiapartheid activist, he caused a stir when he later transplanted the heart of a young man of mixed race into a well-to-do white man. The thrice-married Barnard unabashedly enjoyed the fruits of his fame. "I love the female sex," he told TIME earlier this month. "I like to enjoy life...
Vincent Synan, dean of religion at Regent University, contends that Jakes and Billy Graham are the only two evangelists who could pack Atlanta's 79,000-capacity Georgia Dome (both have), "but Graham has 50 years of fame and a great organization." Says Lee Grady, editor of the religious magazine Charisma: "We talk about someone being anointed. Jakes knows he's got a special trust...
...African Americans. Since then, her clientele has diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their home could withstand the iconic force of Frank Gehry and Marcel Wanders chairs. This year she decorated President Bill Clinton's new offices in Harlem with surprisingly modern furniture and light...
...eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s and '60s who rose to fame after playing Sandra Dee's boyfriend in the 1959 film A Summer Place; in Santa Monica, California. Donahue was admired more for his beachboy good looks than his acting abilities, and his career fizzled. He battled alcohol and drug addiction until he sobered...