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Vidal is snobby about his roots. He was raised in prewar Washington in the seigneurial home of his grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind Senator from Oklahoma (Vice President Al Gore is his cousin). Vidal's mother was a histrionic alcoholic, so early on he retreated into the world of books and language. He attended the exclusive St. Albans prep school and served as first mate on a supply ship during World War II, after which, at age 20, he published his first novel, Williwaw...
...most notorious of these claimants was "Anna Anderson" (subject of a 1956 film starring Ingrid Bergman), who persuaded a few surviving Romanovs, including the ex-Czar's first cousin Grand Duke Andrew, that she was Nicholas' youngest daughter Anastasia. A majority of the family were not convinced: their skepticism was vindicated last year when Anderson, who died in 1984, was exposed as an imposter by DNA testing...
...told Massie, even though some symbols of the czarist past, like the country's pre-Soviet flag, have been restored. Should the impossible happen, one plausible candidate for the throne is a retired U.S. Marine colonel named Paul R. Ilyinsky, the son of the late Grand Duke Dimitri, a cousin of the Czar's. Ilyinsky, however, prefers the job he already holds: mayor of Palm Beach, Florida...
...federal entitlement status of Medicaid, the program that provides comprehensive health insurance for 36 million low-income Americans. At a New York press conference, Gingrich proposed funding Medicaid through block grants and insisted the plan would "deliver better care with better services at less cost." Unlike its higher-end cousin, Medicare, Medicaid already depends on vast state involvement, and the bill would likely fail without governors' support. "No one in Washington suggests block-granting Medicare," says TIME's Tumulty. "It would scare to many powerful constituencies. Medicaid, by contrast, has no powerful lobby...
...when he doubled on tenor and soprano sax, tested split tones, wrote his own beautifully complex compositions and experimented with long free-form solos. Also included is a detailed booklet of essays and personal reminiscences. (Maybe too detailed: 'Trane loved cooking oatmeal and hot chocolate, we learn from his cousin Mary, but "didn't like any crust on the white part" of his eggs.) For Coltrane fans the outtakes are a particular revelation--not just for the bits of studio banter (Coltrane and his sidemen are heard laughing about the wild chord changes) but also for the unusual glimpse...