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Machine generated contents note: Stories my father told me: notes from "The Lyons Den" -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 'The Thirties' -- Irving Berlin -- George Burns -- Sir Charlie Chaplin -- Ty Cobb -- Gary Cooper -- Sir Noel Coward -- Albert Einstein -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Sinclair Lewis -- Groucho and his brothers -- Harpo -- Chico -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Pablo Picasso -- George Bernard Shaw -- The Duke of Windsor -- 'The Forties' -- Thomas Hart Benton -- Ingrid Bergman -- Milton Berle -- Tallulah Bankhead -- David Ben-Gurion -- Humphrey Bogart -- Charles Boyer -- Sir Winston Churchill -- Joe DiMaggio -- John Garfield -- Sam Goldwyn -- Cary Grant -- Howard Hughes -- George S. Kaufman -- Danny Kaye -- Helen Keller -- Charles Laughton -- Gypsy Rose Lee -- Oscar Levant -- Gen. George S. Patton -- Edward G. Robinson -- Carl Sandburg -- John Steinbeck -- President Harry S. Truman -- Orson Welles -- 'The Fifties' -- Lauren Bacall -- Marlon Brando -- Yul Brynner -- Dr. Ralph Bunche -- Marc Chagall -- Salvador Dali -- Kirk Douglas -- Jackie Gleason -- Sir Rex Harrison -- Ernest Hemingway -- Audrey Hepburn -- Sir Alfred Hitchcock -- Judy Holliday -- Grace Kelly -- Ethel Merman -- James Michener -- Marilyn Monroe -- Lord Laurence Olivier -- Otto Preminger -- Rocky Marciano -- William Saroyan -- Phil Silvers -- Frank Sinatra -- 'The Sixties' -- Brendan Behan -- Richard Burton -- Truman Capote -- Dustin Hoffman -- President Lyndon B. Johnson -- President John F. Kennedy -- Sophia Loren -- Paul Newman -- Barbra Streisand -- Billy Wilder -- Shelly Winters -- Sir Peter Ustinov -- The Next Generation -- Antonio Banderas -- Javier Bardem -- Cate Blanchett -- Sir Michael Caine -- George Carlin -- George Clooney -- Penelope Cruz -- Dame Judi Dench -- Clint Eastwood -- Ralph Fiennes -- Dennis Hopper -- Samuel L. Jackson -- Sir Ben Kingsley -- Jay Leno -- William Shatner -- Epilogue .