Thursday, February 24, 2011

HORNE, LENA Elegant Chanteuse (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Lena Horne: I never dreamt that I would meet you, the elegant chanteuse-entertainer, on the stage of Paramount Studios in Hollywood. B...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

GUGGENHEIM, PEGGY ART COLLECTOR EXTRAORDINAIRE (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Peggy: I first saw your extraordinary art collection at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice when I took twenty c...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

RUBINSTEIN, HELENA...QUEEN OF BEAUTY(c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Helena: Aladdin may have had his lamp, but you had a magical elixir, a simple face cream that eventually made you one of the world’s r...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

SHAW, FLORA A VISIONARY JOURNALIST (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Flora: You carved a career in journalism at a time when few women ventured into the world let alone shaped public policy. A woman dete...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Gardiner, Muriel "The Real Heroine" (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger: Who was the real “Julia?” That is the question. When the 1977 movie “Julia,” came out about a young ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

LOW, JULIETTE GORDON GIRL SCOUT FOUNDER (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Juliette: Who would ever have expected that during a time when women were restrained by society, that you would break out of the Victor...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

BARTON, CLARA Founder American Red Cross (c) By Polly Guerin

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Dear Clara Barton: A gift to your parents Stephen and Sarah Barton, you were born on Christmas Day in 1821. On that day the world was intro...
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