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...seemed exotic. His high profile, in all of its manifestations, rankled some straitlaced executive colleagues. Others simply wearied of his professional swagger. "When John was at General Motors, people either loved him or they hated him," says J. Patrick Wright, a business journalist who wrote De Lorean's 1979 memoir, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. According to the book, De Lorean's febrile management style, impolitic brilliance and impatience with bureaucracy worked against him. In a chapter called "How Moral Men Make Immoral Decisions," De Lorean makes much of his own ethics...
...from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years (1963), he became one of the first White House aides to report on the behind-the-scenes workings of an Administration...
DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap...
Everything, including the ordinary, seems strange in these fortresses. In the Stateville library, a huge inmate stands and squints at Bing Crosby's memoir, Call Me Lucky. A young, white female history teacher asks her class of ten young black men, "And who won World War II?" In permissive California, San Quentin's main visiting room has the look of a junior high school make-out party where they forgot to dim the lights: dozens of couples, hugging, smooching, oblivious. In Leavenworth's vast mess hall, inmates grab their silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white...
...conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...