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...throne of England, was named TIME's Woman of the Year for 1936--a year in which Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao were all on the march and F.D.R. was elected in a landslide to a second term--TIME the titillator delivered this quote: "'My, my!' sighed [Argentine] Ambassador [Felipe] Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, 'who would ever have dreamed that our Little Wallis would ever be where...
...great houses, collected art, stayed only in the best suites in the best hotels. In 1935 he divorced his wife of 12 years (and the mother of his two sons) to marry one of the most glamorous women in America--the already acclaimed editor and playwright, later Congresswoman and ambassador, Clare Boothe. Their marriage was a troubled one from the start, a union of two ambitious, image-conscious people who did not always like each other very much and who were often apart. But they played their public roles as a dazzling and powerful couple to the hilt--entertaining lavishly...
...telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a.m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour; but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. Mr. Bullitt told Mr. Roosevelt that World War II had begun. Adolf Hitler's bombing planes were dropping death all over Poland...
Ironically, after a burst of motivation and a couple of informal trips into the city, I am now Harvard's ambassador to the metropolis across the river. My new job, it seems, will be getting on and off of a bus once a week, and seeing who and what is out there...
After haggling over language long into Monday evening, the U.S. tried to sound upbeat about the toothless resolution. U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson called it a "victory for the United States." President Clinton declared that "tonight's unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council sends the clearest possible message: Iraq must make good on its commitment...