Word: eleanore
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Under the conditions of a 1912 agreement between the University and Eleanor Elkins Widener, the library’s benefactor, no “additions or alterations” could be made to the facade of the building...
...Fame in America came to Mei-ling in a more serendipitous fashion. In late 1942, a painful skin disease brought her to a New York hospital. Upon her release, she was invited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, to stay at the White House for a week. Yet even as his guest was enthralling his nation, Roosevelt was wary of Mei-ling's formidable charm. One night at dinner, the President asked in passing how she would deal with a troublesome labor leader like John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Without missing a beat, Madame...
...when It’s My Turn was written and filmed, Gross was just a year out of his doctoral program, working as an instructor in the math department of Princeton University. He says he laughed it off when Eleanor Bergstein, a local first-time screenwriter—still seven years away from writing Dirty Dancing, her only success—said she had a script she wanted him to look over. After all, he says, who doesn’t have a screenplay in her bottom drawer that she hawks to junior math faculty from time to time...
...DIED. ELEANOR LAMBERT, 100, a.k.a. the Empress of Seventh Avenue, who as a publicist championed American fashion designers such as Bill Blass and Halston; in New York City. In the early 1940s, when Paris was deemed the industry's sole center, she organized press previews in New York, a precursor to Fashion Week; established the International Best-Dressed List; and nudged reluctant magazine editors to cover American designers. In 1962 she founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America...
...book A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was hailed by the New York Times as a “definitive study” on human rights...