Word: ella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this there were a few events of the year that touched people's better natures. Moments of silence occurred for Barbara Jordan, Cardinal Bernardin, Joseph Mitchell, James Rouse, George Burns, Claudette Colbert, Ella Fitzgerald and others of value whose deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...
...According to her son, Ray Brown, Jr., Ella never cooked," Morris-Rosman said. "She read the cookbooks like most people read a novel, even annotating in the margins...
...However, Ella always loved to eat," Morris-Rosman said. "Even toward the end, when she was severely limited in diet because of her diabetes and heart condition, she loved to talk about food...
...Fitzgerald's cookbooks will be on the browsing shelves of Schlesinger Library once they are catalogued. The bookplate inside will read "From the Estate of Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song," Haber said...
...Ella's bookplate will add value to the books and luster to the library," Haber said...