Topic: Katharine Graham
In June of 1971, the Washington Post was in heated controversy over whether or not to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of the United States' military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. One phone call to Katharine Graham, the ...
Former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham is in the spotlight at the National Portrait Gallery with an exhibit devoted to her work that helped shape U.S. history, most notably Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. Graham, who died in 2001, was involved ...
<div id="subtitle">Newsweek, a storied brand struggling in a lightning-fast media world, gets put up for sale</div><div><p>At a time when people don't want to wait a minute for information, let alone seven days, do newsweeklies have ...
WASHINGTON POST MAY BE THE MOST UNDERVALUED media company in America today. Controlled by the founding Graham family, the low-profile Post is a mini conglomerate, operating Kaplan, a cable-TV business with 669,000 basic subscribers, a group of network-TV stations, the Washington ...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Now - 01/16/2011 The first comprehensive retrospective of Guillermo Kuitca's art to travel in the United States in more than ten years will examine over two decades of the artist's paintings, and will include ...
When the invitations for Truman Capote's 1966 Black and White Ball arrived from Tiffany & Co. bearing an incorrect address for the Plaza Hotel?the event's venue?the host, with no time to have them redone, simply crossed out the mistake and added the right number. He also wrote an afterthought on each one, in his signature craggy hand, to explain that the soiree was in honor of publisher Katharine Graham. Despite the scrawl, the invitations?simple white cards framed in yellow and orange?instantly became the most coveted items among New York City's elite.. "An invitation is always a welcome thing," says Peter Hopkins, the historian for Crane & Co., which has been making cards for all manner of events since 1801. Past creations from the company include Grover Cleveland's invitation to the dedication of the Statue of Liberty; Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt's somber 1942 holiday wish for a "happier" new year; and the dedications of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building ...
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own - it needn't have anything to do with quotations - send it along here. In order to ...
In our defense, this morning's piece on David Carr didn't technically assert that no one had ever written a reported memoir before. We know this now thanks to Chicago-based author Carol Felsenthal, who brought it to our attention in a ...
