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HOSPITALIZED. STEPHEN AMBROSE, 62, American historian; in fair condition from an as yet undetermined illness; in Madison, Wis. Two days after receiving a National Humanities Medal at the White House, the best-selling author, based in Helena, Mont., collapsed during an evening...
...Reported by Leigh Anne Williams/Peggy's Cove, Harriet Barovick/New York City, Mark Thompson/Washington, Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral, and Helena Bachmann/Geneva
Gordon (Richard E. Grant), a copywriter at a London ad agency in the '30s, thinks of himself as a poet. But no one else is buying. Obsessed with strictures of class (his is "lower upper middle"), he woos his muse while exasperating Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter), the art director of his ads and the love of his miserable life. If this version of George Orwell's 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying is too sunny for its subject, it provides a field day for the lanky Grant. His Gordon is self-absorbed, fulminating--the angry young man 20 years before...
...case. He was then living about 2 1/2 miles from where the girl disappeared. She was never found, but he was ruled out as a suspect. His anger at local officials moved up the hierarchy. In 1991, says Sheriff Tom Dawson, Weston, who had by then moved to Helena, Mont., wrote two angry letters to the Governor ("I am writing this letter to represent my hate...
...Cape of Good Hope. His words were written just five years after European vines were first planted at the southernmost tip of Africa. By the 18th century, South African Muscats were being served in Europe's royal houses; Napoleon drank a bottle a day during his exile on St. Helena. Jane Austen prescribed Cape Constantia wine for the brokenhearted Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. Though listed as products of the New World, Cape wines are being rediscovered today as modern extensions of a historic Old World legacy...