Word: ellin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SILVER PLATTER (454 pp.)-Ellin Berlin -Doubleday...
...this fond biography of her grandmother. Author Ellin Mackay Berlin tells how Louise made the leap from being a tenement child to becoming the 19th century's hostess with the mostes'. The child of a Manhattan barber and his seamstress wife. Louise used to deliver her mother's embroidery to the fine houses on Washington Square and St. John's Park. Her one ambition was to break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly...
...Author Ellin Mackay Berlin (Lace Curtain, Land I Have Chosen) wrote this book as a kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors...
...Friday afternoons he meets with Senior Editor Jack Tibby, Books Researcher Mary Ellin Berlin, and TIME'S three other reviewers : Theodore E. Kalem, Irving Howe and Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. ( A fifth reviewer is ex-TiME Writer Nigel Dennis, now living in England.) Gissen gives a thumbnail outline of each of the books he has scanned, and the week's assignments are handed...
Other committee heads elected were: Curricular, Natalie Dosick '52; Library, Margaret Fitzgerald '52; Orientation, Phebo Crampton '52; Publicity, Elizabeth Fleischner '54 and Ruth Jacobson '52; Community Service, Mary Jane Wade '52 and Phyllis Watt '54; Health Center, Ellin Louria '52; Social, Rachel Mellinger '52; Student Employment, Pamela Huntsman-Trout '52. The new editor of the Red Book, the student handbook, is Gloria Wagstaff...