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...Harkness' infatuation for the dance began when she took a few ballet lessons as a budding debutante in St. Louis. Her "career" ended at 19, when she appeared in Aïda and was reprimanded by her stockbroker father for not wearing enough clothes. In 1947 she married FinancierPhilanthropist William Hale Harkness, inherited his fortune in Standard Oil holdings when he died seven years later. Searching for a vocation "superior to the way of life I was born to-society," she took a stab at interior decorating, sculpting and piano playing, eventually turned to writing semiclassical music...
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