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Her lean, clean looks and whiplash wit earned Nancy Gross from Pacific Grove the nickname Slim and a place in Truman Capote's Answered Prayers as the mordant Lady Coolbirth. Of all the men who fell for her— from Clark Gable to Ernest Hemingway—Slim married three: director Howard Hawks, who created Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not in her image; producer-agent Leland Hayward, the love of her life, whom she lost to Pamela Churchill; and Sir Kenneth Keith, the financier with the stiffest upper lip. In an excerpt from Slim (Simon and Schuster), written with Annette Tapert and finished just before her death this spring, Lady Keith proves you could never be too rich or too Slim.
The First Lady of television news, Barbara Walters has had an unparalleled 38-year on-camera reign, including 15 years as co-anchor of 20/20, nearly a quarter-century of top-rated specials, and exclusives with everyone from Fidel Castro to Muammar Qaddafi. At 67, making a reported $10 million a year and at the top of her game, she has nothing left to prove. As ABC's doyenne revels in the success of her new morning talk show, The View, and reels in the biggest "get" of her career—Monica Lewinsky— JENNET CONANT talks to friends, colleagues, and Walters herself about what makes Barbara the kind of tree that just keeps growing
Barbara Walters was one of the first women to establish herself as a heavy-hitting broadcast journalist in an industry dominated by men. “Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said.
Sam Roberts’ latest book, “The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City” focuses on ordinary people involved in extraordinary things, city dwellers who caught our imagination – at least for a moment.