Word: stepson
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...book, both in whole and in parts. Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, charged that there are 20 factual errors in the passages involving her alone. She described the purported Nancy Reagan-Frank Sinatra tryst in the White House as "pure horse manure." Michael Reagan, Nancy's stepson, also jumped to her defense. "Gossip is one thing, and smut is another," he said. "This is smut...
...quotes selectively. Kelley frequently rehashes material that has been published elsewhere -- in itself no crime. But her selection of which parts to quote and which to leave out reveal her motives. For example, she describes an episode in which Nancy, after an angry encounter with her stepson Michael, then 16, callously told him he had been born out of wedlock to an army sergeant who had gone overseas and never returned. Writes Kelley: "Michael said he was rocked by the heartless way he received the news . . . 'I guess I expected Nancy to be more sympathetic,' he said years later...
Right after New Year 1974, Solzhenitsyn's 13-year-old stepson visited our apartment, disappeared into the bathroom and returned with a book that had been concealed under his clothing: The Gulag Archipelago. The book was a shattering experience, evoking a somber world of gray camps surrounded by barbed wire, investigators' offices and torture chambers, icy mines in Kolyma and Norilsk...
...deals with care. (Morgan did come up short in one notable fight, however, when it assisted Paramount Communications in its failed $12.2 billion hostile bid for Time Inc. last year on the eve of the company's planned merger with Warner Communications.) Under Chairman S. Parker Gilbert, 56, the stepson of co-founder Harold Stanley, and President Richard Fisher, 53, Morgan hedged its bets by diversifying into many different fields rather than putting all its money into one or two fashionable trends. At the same time, top investment banker Robert Greenhill expanded Morgan's global reach. The firm...