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...tale of a fretful rich girl who married the dazzlingly brilliant Philip Graham. It was her father who owned the Washington Post, but her husband was given majority control of the paper on the theory that no man should ever work for his wife. When she found the manic-depressive Graham dead of a gunshot wound in the bathroom of their country house in 1963, this "doormat wife" at 46 was thrust into running the company. Men in suits thought they would be able to wrest it from someone so crippled by anxiety that she practiced saying "Merry Christmas" before...
...brainy graduate of the University of Chicago with common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate...
...public Katharine Graham was born, at the age of 46, out of a catastrophe - the suicide in 1963 of her brilliant and unstable husband Philip, a manic depressive who was publisher of the Washington Post...
...husband Philip Graham took over the ailing Post, and Graham ended her own short-lived writing career to concentrate on the family?s home life. She focused on raising their children and entertaining in their Georgetown home until the increasingly manic-depressive Phil committed suicide...
...familiar with the tone. You?ve got to give the birds some credit. What better way to grab a mate?s undivided attention? Our feathered friends have obviously taken note of the phenomenon known as "Ooh-hang-on-while-I-get-that-cell-phone-call" - that blind and manic need to drop everything and answer a call - that sadly afflicts so many humans, including heart surgeons, air-traffic controllers and, apparently, even my wandering friend in North Carolina. Let?s just hope those poor birds aren?t suddenly inspired to migrate halfway around the world, or we could have whole...