Tuesday, September 25, 2012

VON NESSEN, GRETA INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER (c) By Polly Guerin

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Greta von Nessen may not be a household word today but when she created the Anywhere Lamp in 195l there was nothing like it, but at the sa...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

JULIETTE 'DAISY' GORDON LOW GIRL SCOUT LEADER (c) By Polly Guerin

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When I visited Savannah, Georgia I was delighted with the quaint neighborhoods with their English style gardens and Victorian houses, and ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

CABRERA,GLORIA Cosmetologist the Natural Way(c) By Polly Guerin

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Making clients beautiful has been the livelong ambition of Gloria Cabrera, a cosmetologist for over thirty years. A petite Philippine nati...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

DOLLS: MADAME ALEXANDER, The First Lady of Dolls (c) By Polly Guerin

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The great French chanteuse, Maurice Chevalier used to sing, “Thank goodness for little girls” and thank goodness it is for the dolls that ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

QUEEN LIZZIE, FASHION ICON (c) By Polly Guerin

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Pardon me, but did I say Queen Lizzie? I say that with the utmost of esteem for the grand lady of England, because she seems to be the kin...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

APFEL IRIS, 91 YEAR OLD FASHION ICON (c) By Polly Guerin

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It’s not her signature owl-shaped glasses that adorn her venerable face that gets your attention and it’s not her mix of haute couture wit...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

COLEMAN, ELIZABETH 'BESSIE,' PIONEER AVIATOR (c)

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At a time when no woman, particularly an African-American woman would have dreamed of becoming a pilot, on June 15, 1921 Elizabeth 'Bess...