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King George VI & Queen Elizabeth. Christmas card showing bomb damage to Buckingham Palace. |
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Queen Elizabeth to Alfred Duff Cooper, May 14, 1940: “We are an inarticulate people and we need men who can speak for us and put into words the fiery resolution that is burning in our hearts. I have no doubt that we shall be tested almost beyond endurance but I have utter confidence in our people.” |
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Alfred Einstein, March 9, 1945: “…Is the age in life after which one sees, remarkably clearly and unsparingly, man as he really is….the abominable [regime]…if falling to dust….it would not be entirely illogical to erect a statue of the miserable Hitler in the foyer of the future world government, to the might promoter of the conviction of the need for a supernational organization….” |
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Edward VIII |
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Babe Ruth |
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T. S. Eliot |
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Walt Disney |
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Gene Autrey |
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Harry S. Truman |
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Richard M. Nixon |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall |
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Clark Gable & Ronald Reagan |
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Charles Lindbergh |
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Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Joe Louis |
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John F. Kennedy: “It is requested that I be reassigned to a motor torpedo boat squadron now operating in the South Pacific.” |
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Ronald Reagan, June 7 [1942]: “Having held a reserve officer’s commission for several years, the party of Dec. 7th soon resulted in a change of jobs for me. Well, one of these days we’ll finish the job and then maybe, who knows, we’ll meet again….” |
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Somerset Maugham |
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Thomas Mann |
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Robert Stroud, The Bird Man of Alcatraz |
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Judy Garland |
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J. Edgar Hoover |
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Irving Berlin |
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Herbert Hoover |
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H. G. Wells |
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Gypsy Rose Lee |
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Ernie Pylea |
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Ezra Pound |
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Dorothy Sayers |
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Albert Einstein |
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Mario Lanza, April 20, 1943, complains bitterly of being stationed in the desert and the effects on his singing: “Away from this boring army life and back to Grand Opera where I really belong.” |
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Ernest Hemingway, letter, July 26, 1946: “…Into Paris…ahead of anybody. Was a fine day. Best of my life….you would have enjoyed chasing the Krauts from then on too.” |
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Hemingway’s press pass to the front line in the Spanish Civil War. |
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George Bernard Shaw: “Churchill has lost his temper.” |
