Thursday, March 31, 2011

BEACH, Amy Marcy Cheney Foremost Female Composer (c) By Polly Guerin

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There are children who come into the world with a talent so extraordinary at such an early age that they are recognized as a child prodigy....
Thursday, March 24, 2011

HOLT, Winifred and Edith, LIGHTING THE WAY (c) by Polly Guerin

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When you are the daughters of the renowned publisher, Henry Holt, the Misses Winifred and Edith Holt might just as well have carried on as ...
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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 ...