The renowned publisher Katharine Meyer Graham (born 1917) took over management of The Washington Post after the death of her husband. She guided it to national prominence and acclaim while expanding h...
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(The following essay discusses Katharine Graham and her husband, Philip Graham.)Both Philip and Katharine Graham played vital roles in making the Washington Post--purchased at a bankruptcy sale in 193...
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"The story of her journey from daughter to wife to widow to woman parallels to a surprising degree the history of women this century." Nora Ephron said this of Katharine Graham in her review of Mrs...
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Charlie Rose yesterday at lunch and had one of those frozen-to-the-table experiences. He was doing a three-part series on Warren Buffett, which concludes tonight. Rose gets access, and the access h...
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Following Niall Ferguson's talk about Jews & Money, a lady in the second row asked whether the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British government committed itself to a homeland for th...
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“Social Washington has undergone quite a decline over the last few years,” opined the writer Christopher Hitchens. It was around 3:30 a.m., and the Vanity Fair party that Mr. Hitchens h...
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Kitty Carlisle Hart died last week. She admitted to 96. But she was as young as the spring air. She left behind friends from every meeting she attended, every restaurant she dined in, every street ...
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I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the area to dinner at her house, where by way of introducing her guests, in the sweet...
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I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the area to dinner at her house, where by way of introducing her guests, in the sweet...
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Before W. Mark Felt was conclusively identified as Deep Throat, he took on one last alias: "The Guy."That was how Mr. Felt-the former F.B.I. official who'd secretly leaked Watergate developments to...
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