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...course, could not have known how important the newspaper would later be to their daughter--or she to it. When Eugene Meyer retired, he passed control of the paper to Kay's husband Philip Graham, who ran it until his suicide in 1963. Only then did Kay Graham, at age 46, come out of the shadow of the men in her life and gradually transform herself into a near legendary figure: the "iron lady" who built the Post into one of the nation's great papers, stood up to the Nixon Administration during Watergate and hobnobbed with the rich...
...grew up in privilege. Her father was a well-connected Jewish financier who made millions on Wall Street and was an adviser to Presidents. Her mother, a writer and socialite, counted among her friends the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and the novelist Thomas Mann. In 1940 Kay married Phil Graham, a charismatic protege of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and later something of a golden boy of the postwar liberal establishment. It was quite a family...
...Kay it was oppressive, particularly the subtle ways in which Phil--she realizes in retrospect--condescended to her, damaged her self-esteem, made her content to be "the tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home...
...Phil's bad habits. He had thought nothing of mingling politics with journalism: a close friend and adviser to Lyndon Johnson, for instance, the Post publisher was instrumental in persuading John Kennedy to pick L.B.J. as his running mate in 1960. After becoming President, Johnson cultivated Kay as well. In 1964 she assured Johnson that while the Post would not break with its policy of nonendorsement, she "was for him" personally and even wanted to contribute to his campaign--a conversation that "embarrasses me now." So does a "sniveling little note" she later wrote in an attempt to mend fences...
Everybody loves ELOISE, the Plaza Hotel-dwelling urchin from the book by Kay Thompson. But perhaps ex-con turned innkeeper-to-the-image-conscious Ian Schrager loved her a teensy bit too much. Schrager published a parody of the children's classic in book form as a high-concept promotional brochure for his Miami hostel, the Delano. In Delia at the Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric...