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Next day Shawn called Whitney again, asking him not to print the story. He also placed a total of four calls to Trib Editor James Bellows and rang up other editors, hinting of a libel suit or an injunction. Then he tried to phone Whitney again. Instead, Shawn got Whitney's wife Betsey, whom he lectured about the Trib's irresponsible journalism...
...Tonight Hollywood is handing out foreign aid," Hope cracked. And so it seemed. For the first time in Academy Award history, every acting award had been copped by a foreigner: three Britons and France's Kedrova. Concluded Hope as he rang down the curtain: "After this, the winners will celebrate at a dinner at the Beverly Hilton. The losers will join hands and march on the British embassy...
Eden's love and respect for Churchill are dominated in the book by exasperation at a leader who did not always heed his right-hand man. "W. rang up in a rage because Bevan and Attlee had taken my view on how to handle De Gaulle. I didn't budge an inch." When Churchill frowned on an Eden proposal for a strong postwar France and hinted that the two of them "might be coming to a break," Eden decided that the old man was losing his balance...
...parade reached the county courthouse and the sheriff emerged--the short, squat man who, the day before, had donned a white cowboy hat, mounted a horse, and galloped through a-panicking band of Forman's pickers. He shook hands with King. The crowd cheered the triumph. "We Shall Overcome" rang one again, and then a chorus of "I Love Everybody in My Heart...
...Elaboration. But on this Friday afternoon in Miami, James Aubrey was not planning to fire anyone. The Gleason party, complete with June Taylor dancers, was over. The TV king was ready for a good time. And then the telephone in his Fontainebleau suite rang. It was New York, and it was someone with enough authority to order him back immediately. No weekend, no pretty girls, no fun; instead, airport, jet, worry...