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Sanders Theatre has been the site of remarkable addresses by visitors, including: Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII); British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill; President Dwight D. Eisenhower; and Carrie Nation, among others...
...Winston Churchill's famous invasion speech would not have worked had he not turned off the microphone before commenting that he had no idea what to use for ammunition other than empty liquor bottles, Ryan said...
Money matters have always soured Pamela Harriman's relations with her stepchildren. "Pam did not do me any great favors as a stepmother," says Brooke Hayward, whose father Leland Hayward was Pamela's second husband. (Averell was her third; her first was Winston Churchill's son.) "She's greedy beyond the usual human greed." Clifford says Averell's family were deeply unhappy in 1971 when Pamela, then 51, married Averell, then 80. Adds Clifford: "He was generous to Mrs. Harriman during his lifetime, and in his will. That was resented by members of his family...
Authors who read their own work are generally less polished but often more effective than actors. Winston Groom reads his novel Forrest Gump in a husky Alabama drawl, delivering a lot more salt and a lot less sappiness than there is in the current hit movie. Hearing Stephen King read the beautifully modulated opening chapter of Needful Things is almost enough to convince you to stick around for the rest of the 24-hour tape. Almost but not quite: one odd aspect of the audio-book market is that King, perhaps the contemporary author who could most benefit from trimming...
...redhead who attracted suitors with remarkable ease, the British-born aristocrat had married and divorced Winston Churchill's son Randolph by the time she was 25. The young Mrs. Churchill spent the rest of her 20s and 30s spinning around the London-Paris-Antibes social orbit, bedding other wealthy and powerful men. They included journalist Edward R. Murrow and Italian mogul Gianni Agnelli, whom Ogden describes -- Jackie Collins-style -- as looking "so luscious" to Harriman when they first met that "her knees trembled." Ultimately, Agnelli, a lothario, refused to marry her, which hurt Harriman deeply...