Word: harrimans
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...night listening to him brood over the delayed invasion of Sicily. Most of all he introduced her to anyone he received, and more and more Americans turned up. "It seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy, who was dining with the Churchills at Chequers one night when a valet turned on a radio to provide reports of Japan's sneak attack of Pearl Harbor. Pamela later said Harriman was "the most handsome man I had ever met." He was, however, married...
...mega-agent and producer whose credits included South Pacific and Gypsy and who represented the likes of Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Judy Garland. A few months after he died in 1971, she was invited to a dinner by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham and renewed her friendship with Harriman. They were married shortly after. He was 29 years her senior. Her wedding present to him was initiating the process of becoming a U.S. citizen...
...political-action committee, Democrats for the '80s, was at first derisively called PamPAC, but Harriman persevered. She was host of a series of "issues evenings," at which policy analysts and Senate candidates shared ideas and presidential hopefuls were featured as speakers. Among her favorites were Al Gore, Jay Rockefeller and Bill Clinton. Democratic donors ponied up $1,000 a place for the privilege of being part of the party. In the process, she raised close to $12 million and won the right to be taken seriously. Diane Sawyer recalls that as late stayers gossiped in corners, Pamela would still...
Harvard president Neil Rudenstine admires her for knowing "that there is a lot to get through in life." When Harriman wants to be alone to think things out, she either climbs a hill or gets on a horse. She is guarded about her image. She initially agreed to write her memoirs with former TIME correspondent Christopher Ogden, then abruptly withdrew from the project. Ogden is proceeding with an unauthorized biography, as is another writer, Sally Bedell Smith...
...that Yeltsin waited too long and compromised too much before firing this last desperate shot. If he had promulgated his decree on private ownership of land a year ago, says one Moscow intellectual, "he wouldn't be in the mess he is now." Robert Legvold, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and a supporter of Yeltsin, says, "He's in a very deep hole, so his plan is not likely to work. It's an act of extraordinary desperation. He let the situation get away from...