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Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library plans to unveil a collection of Ella Fitzgerald's cookbooks bequeathed to the library by the late jazz singer's estate last summer...
According to Fran Morris-Rosman, one of the directors of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the archivist of Fitzgerald's estate, the foundation decided to donate her cookbooks to Harvard because the Schlesinger Library has the best cookbook collection in the country...
...Ella Fitzgerald was inordinately proud of her cookbook collection," Morris-Rosman said. "In interviews, she almost always mentioned them...
...DIED. ELLA COLLINS, 82, civil rights activist and half-sister of Malcolm X who took over the Organization of Afro-American Unity in the wake of Malcolm's assassination; in Boston...
...virtually all her life, Ella Fitzgerald was a shy figure who never found the sunny and confident love she sang so beautifully about [APPRECIATION, June 24]. Her voice spoke of human understanding and sympathy. Her interpretation of sad-sweet lyrics was so precise it seemed almost incredible that such a succulent sound could come from a modest, dumpy woman. She shunned the spotlight, and unlike many of her musical contemporaries, never made the headlines with extracurricular antics. She rarely made the rounds of talk shows to project a personality, but let her singing speak for her. Her black voice gave...