Word: refreshers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke spent three years on the memoirs. As he acknowledges in his foreword, Charlie Murphy was his collaborator most of the time, prodding, suggesting, editing and cajoling, in Paris and at Cap d'Antibes. To help refresh Windsor's memory, Murphy supplied him with digests of diaries, court calendars, newspaper clippings, books and interviews with other actors in the royal drama. (The Duke himself had saved a bale of state and unofficial papers and albums of his own photographs of the historic days.) Then, while a secretary recorded every word, the Duke reminisced...
...high blood pressure. Asked the doctor: "What have you been doing?" When the patient answered that he had just spent an hour with Bob Woodruff, the doctor said: "Oh just go home and go to bed. That's all you need." Woodruff rarely relaxes, but likes to refresh his pauses with Martinis...
...readers-and to refresh the memories of the rest of us-this is the first of a series of Letters on TIME'S kind of journalism, to appear occasionally in this space. Most of them will be based on TIME, The Story of an Experiment, written by the editors on the occasion of our 25th anniversary...