Word: harriman
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Reflected Glory is packed with unflattering anecdotes, reminders that public figures with flavorful private lives should sometimes compromise with their chroniclers. An accessible Harriman might have charmed Bedell Smith into changing her title. Who wants to be remembered as merely a gilded mirror, decorative but empty until an influential man shows...
...Americans can readily identify Pamela Churchill Harriman, born Pamela Beryl Digby 76 years ago in England and currently U.S. ambassador to France. But in the international world of the redundantly rich and overpowered, she has been an object of desire, scorn, envy and grudging respect for more than 50 years...
Following a nasty marriage to Winston Churchill's dissolute son Randolph, Pam Churchill went on to form lucrative unions and strategic dalliances on both sides of the Atlantic. Her second husband was Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who died in 1971. She then married the aged Averell Harriman--Wall Street heir, Roosevelt New Dealer, diplomat and former Governor of New York. He had been her munificent lover in Britain during World War II. Other beaux of that exciting time and place included John Hay Whitney, Edward R. Murrow and his boss, CBS founder William Paley, who later crowned the red-haired...
...Times reporter and author of a book about Paley has dredged decades of letters, memoirs, social histories and newspaper clippings. She has talked to hundreds of Pamela watchers and has had the benefit of reading Christopher Ogden's Life of the Party, a 1994 biography based on taped interviews Harriman gave Ogden and then prevented him from quoting directly...
...increase was possible because of a recent fund-raising effort by the Charity of Edward Hopkins, which founded and continues to endow the award, Harriman said...