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...lavish East Room wedding, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, an Ohio Congressman who shared little with her besides an interest in Republican politics. A drinker and a playboy, Longworth quickly earned his wife's "complete contempt," says Sturm. Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties. "Grammy couldn't stand earnestness," Sturm says...
...Though she may not have intended malice, Alice's sharp tongue did leave wounds, reducing Eleanor to tears. In 1957, Alice's quiet daughter Paulina died of an overdose of sleeping pills. A softened Alice adopted Sturm and reconciled with Eleanor, who sent her an affecting condolence note. "She was a lively grandmother," Sturm says of Alice, who spent two more decades entertaining Nixons and Kennedys in her home, which was covered with old animal skins, books and peeling paint. Alice would stay up late, teaching herself Greek and reading about science, propped beside a throw pillow embroidered with...
...Radio's The Goon Show, whose stars, including Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, all recorded comedy albums produced by George Martin. It was his connection to the Goons, not his work on jazz albums, that first endeared Martin to John and the others. Another number in the show, "Eleanor Rigby," which takes place in the wreckage of postwar Liverpool, has a cratered, post-nuclear look reminiscent of Milligan's play The Bed Sitting Room, which was filmed by Richard Lester, who directed the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night and Help! That's one of the pleasures of Love...
...Though the show has a few longueurs and excesses, Champagne typically finds mind-expanding ways to visualize the songs. He sets this theater-in-the-round spinning with big ideas and vibrant images: kids with blank faces (for "Nowhere Man"), an Eleanor Rigby character toting her past in a cluttered cart, a jaunty man on trombone-shaped stilts, a Sergeant Pepper figure toting an instrument out of Ted Geisel - a Seuss-ophone. For "Help!", four extreme athletes zoom up and over two U-shaped slides. Harrison's gorgeous "Here Comes the Sun" (which never sounded better) is accompanied by four...
...wins the election, saying, "I am glad to be elected President in my own right." His Dec. 6 message to Congress includes the so-called Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which justifies U.S. intervention in Latin America. In 1905 he establishes the Forest Service; gives away his niece Eleanor Roosevelt at her March 17 wedding to distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt; brokers the Treaty of Portsmouth--signed on Sept. 5 in New Hampshire--ending the Russo-Japanese War; and persuades colleges to make football games less dangerous. The next year, T.R. mediates a dispute between France and Germany over...