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...Buren, H. S.; Vinecour...
...family when a relative dies and money is at stake. Days after the death of advice empress Ann Landers (real name: Esther Lederer), her daughter and niece are engaged in a vitriolic feud like the one that once consumed Landers and her twin sister, Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren. Landers' daughter MARGO HOWARD, right, accused Van Buren's daughter, JEANNE PHILLIPS, left, of trying to cash in on Landers' death. Phillips, who inherited Dear Abby, went on Larry King Live and made public her grief over her aunt's death. Howard, who writes a Dear Prudence column, says her cousin...
DIED. ESTHER (EPPIE) LEDERER, 83, the tabloid Freud who, as ANN LANDERS, was the world's most widely syndicated columnist; in Chicago. The elder twin sister of advice maven "Abigail Van Buren," Lederer dispensed a daily dose of common sense to 90 million readers. Homey but frank, she endorsed masturbation as a safe alternative to abstinence and in 1971 cued a flood of letters to Congress urging federal support of cancer research. Before Oprah and Sally, there was Ann--the nation's big sister...
architectural history, along with a renovated opera house by Jean Nouvel, the futuristic Saint-Exupéry Airport station by Santiago Calatrava and even a municipal parking lot by architects Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Daniel Targe and artist Daniel Buren. (For a glimpse, check the inverted periscope in the Place des Célestins...
...harbinger of the presence of TV cameras and 24-hour cable journalists, who constantly haunt the grounds today. But the White House was always an experimental ground for new, in particular domestic, technology. Jefferson had two flush toilets; Andrew Jackson got running water and the first shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes introduced the telephone, and Benjamin Harrison had the White House...