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¶ In Quebec City, Premier Maurice Duplessis got a gift from an admirer: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin from Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron.
For the next 30 years, Kiddy was a warm friend and admirer of Pussy and Lovey, and his book explains his friendship and admiration. It doesn't explain (no one has, convincingly) why Stein-worshipers such as Thornton Wilder regard her as one of the most brilliant conversationalists of...
Her moods and feuds were famous and fearful. Once an admirer of F.D.R., she turned on him with the spiteful and scurrilous tag, "He lied us into war." In the same way, she turned on her once-loved son-in-law, Drew Pearson, and savagely attacked him in print.
A neat and tidy admirer of the neat and tidy in the past, Stravinsky considers himself an artisan, like a cobbler making shoes. He applies his dictum on writing music-"To know how to discard, as the gambler says"-to conversation, sometimes brushes off questions with a brusque growl: "Ach...
Schary kept mum about his plans, and refused to verify any rumors (that he might go to Goldwyn, Columbia or back to Selznick). The people he left behind at RKO were not taking it so calmly. In a business where many of the bosses learned about movies in banks or...