Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Christopher Ogden's biography Life of the Party, Pamela Harriman, for her Senate confirmation to be Ambassador to France, came clean about her entry in Who's Who in America: she was not a college graduate, nor had she done postgraduate work at the Sorbonne. Ronald Reagan so conflated his movies with real life that he often spoke as if he hadn't spent the war years on the back lot in Culver City...
...auction of Pamela Harriman's very worldly possessions last week provided a snapshot of the market for celebrity relics. Here are a few of the objects and the amount they earned, arranged in order of how much the sale price exceeded or fell below the estimate. Age apparently has its perquisites: memorabilia linked to World War II--era personalities outperformed those from more contemporary figures, although the Camelot cachet was still impressive...
...create a small fortune? Start with a large one. The late Pamela Harriman, British-born U.S. ambassador to France, went through money faster than husbands, and her amazing social and political skills stood in stark contrast to her investing acumen. She seems to have squandered most of the more than $100 million she inherited from her third husband, New York Governor and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. Her estate: some $15 million to $20 million, mostly in jewelry, property...
PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...
...debate over German treatment of the Church of Scientology, dismissing as "historically inaccurate and totally distasteful" criticism that the measures being taken against Scientologists are reminiscent of Nazi treatment of the Jews. Stopping next in Paris, Albright, speaking partially in French, delivered a eulogy for late American Ambassador Pamela Harriman before chewing over a French proposal for a special NATO charter with Russia. The Albright Express steams ahead to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday for more talks on Russia, and moves on to London on Wednesday for more consensus-building. Next stop: Moscow...