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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. Hollywood's comic genius writes eloquently of his pitifully poor childhood but prefers name dropping to telling about his later artistic achievements. The reason for this autobiographical lapse is apparent on every page and saves the book: despite his fame, the penniless child in Charlie still marvels at the attention of the great...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. Hollywood's comic genius writes eloquently of his pitifully poor childhood but prefers name-dropping to telling about his later artistic achievements. The reason for this autobiographical lapse is apparent on every page and saves the book: despite his wealth, fame and notoriety, the penniless child in Charlie still marvels at the attention of the great...
...technically supposed to abandon it on marriage. One of the most persistent social embarrassments to the court was Count Léon Bonaparte, Napoleon's illegitimate son by a lady-in-waiting, who publicly claimed a right to the Crown, pestered the Emperor for lifelong handouts, and died penniless and insane...
...fled his prostrate country in 1940, he was all that the Free French had-and he had nothing: "Not the shadow of a force or of an organization at my side. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing." Four years later, the obscure and penniless general had helped liberate France, become its first postwar President, and taken his place among world statesmen of the first rank. History records no more telling example of the will to power...
...Peru, he worked until exhaustion, made worse by his bad health, left him unable to talk. He heartened priests, preached long sermons, blessed edifices of various kinds, and everywhere took delight in children. At one town he poured milk into the mugs of several hundred assembled urchins. In a penniless orphanage he committed himself to vast purchases of ice cream for kids, and, reminded that he must always raise money for the missionary society and much more besides, reduced some little girls to giggles by saying, "If you ever marry a millionaire, introduce...