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DIED. JEANNE CRAIN, 78, wholesome film and TV actress who co-starred in such films as A Letter to Three Wives and Cheaper by the Dozen and was nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in 1949's Pinky, in which she portrayed a black woman passing for white; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
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...aide left city hall a year ago--forced out, it was said, at Hanover's insistence--the mayor helped her land a $150,000-a-year taxpayer-subsidized job with the New York convention and visitors bureau, a job for which she was deemed "simply unqualified" by the weekly Crain's New York Business. This was just the sort of cronyism for which Giuliani loves to flail other politicians. Now that he was being accused of it, he had no choice but to bring out the snarl: "Get outta here! Get lost...
...wonders about Thomas-Graham's motivation behind writing this book, the first in what she plans to make into a series of Ivy League mysteries. As a triple Harvard graduate (A.B., M.B.A., J.D.), the first black woman partner at McKinsey & Co. and a member of the prestigious Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40" list of executives, she certainly can't be suffering for money. But consider the following coincidences: both Thomas-Graham and Nikki Chase hail from Detroit; both exhibited marked success in economics-related fields, and both are affiliated with Harvard. Self-aggrandizement? Possibly. A creative outlet...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: David and Maggie Crain just sold their general store--an area gathering-place for generations--to interlopers from Ohio...