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Woolf, who grew up in a literary household, always planned to be a novelist. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a distinguished author of the 19th century literati. In fact, Virginia's first letter, written at the age of six, was attached to a brief note of her father's to her godfather, James Russell Lowell. Inscribed all in capitals, it goes...
...never mentions the things that really bother her. Her mother died when Virginia was 13. The woman who came to take Mrs. Stephen's place in the household, Virginia's half-sister Stella, died two years later. When she was 22, her father passed away; two years after that, her brother Thoby died of typhoid fever. Virginia only spoke of the last death, and even her reference to that was fortuitous. Violet was very ill with the same disease and in order to conceal Thoby's death from her, Virginia made up cheerful prognostications and a few stories about...
Dumbarton Oaks became something of a household name in 1944 when it hosted the conference of Allied ministers which helped lay the groundwork for the formation of the United Nations...
...proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were?hungry reporters desperately eager for a break...
Grant's Chairman Robert Anderson, appointed in 1974 to arrest the chain's decline, had hoped to use the protection of bankruptcy laws to build a "new Grant's" consisting only of the Northeastern stores. They were to sell clothing, household goods and furniture, and steer clear of the high-priced air conditioners, refrigerators and television sets that proved to be the company's Achilles' heel. So confident did Anderson appear at one point that he told one of his managers: "There will be a 1976." But the store's creditors thought differently...