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...make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell was Claire McCardell?) nor the most exemplary (witness the inclusions of Lizzie Borden and Hetty Green.) The women have been classified under ten major headings, most rather arbitrary, which just makes for more nit-picking. The editors at Time-Life must have had a hard time deciding whether Ayn Rand was a writer or an intellectual, whether Sarah Caldwell was an artist...
WILD, WILD WOMEN" features the notorious lives of Lizzie Borden, Ma Barker, and Carry Nation among others. Those who dutifully did their compulsory summer reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included...
...Legend, New York Times Dance Critic Clive Barnes once wrote, "I would prefer to play pinochle, which is all the more surprising since I have never played pinochle in my life." In the line of duty, however, Barnes attended another performance of the ballet (about the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden) and wrote a glowing review of Marcia Haydée, who was guest dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Unpleased was Ballerina Sallie Wilson, the ABT regular who has danced the lead role impeccably for many seasons without getting what she considers to be a fair shake from Barnes...
Anyway, the dye is cast out, and manufacturers are shifting to a substitute: Red Dye No. 40, which the FDA considers safe. Several manufacturers, including Armour, General Mills, Nabisco and Revlon, say that they stopped using Red No. 2 long ago; others, such as Borden and Ralston Purina, are in the last stages of the changeover. General Foods, which used Red No. 2 in some flavors of JellO, Kool-Aid and Gaines pet foods, says it stopped a week before the FDA ruling...
...Lizzie Borden was acquitted...