At the time, Lair was a master painter and plasterer who had been asked to help put up a series of framed photographs presented to the hotel by Karsh and his wife, Estrellita, as a farewell gift. It ...

She gave this quote during her famous “Freedom or Death” speech ... do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” ...

This created between them and the West what became known as an “Iron Curtain”, an imaginary barrier with a name claimed to have been coined first by Winston Churchill himself at a speech in Fulton ...