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...concerts include the Viellee Trio a week from today; Harriet Cohen, planist, on Wednesday, February 18; and the Halph Kirkpstrick '31 on Tuesday, February 24, and Wednesday, February...
...Ozzie & Harriet (Fri. 9130 p.m., CBS). The best of the Mr. and Mrs. shows...
Died. Mrs. Harriet Gardiner Lynch Coogan, 86, wealthy recluse with a monumental grudge against High Society, longtime owner of "Whitehall," aristocratic Newport's most tumbledown eyesore: in Manhattan. Owner of a vast real-estate fortune, which she managed in a cubbyhole office from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Mrs. Coogan had sulked in seclusion in a hotel suite for 32 years. She walked out of Whitehall in 1910 (in a huff, according to Society legend, after giving a big party which Society boycotted), never returned, refused to sell the place, just let it stand there rotting...
...with an authority beyond her years or experience in a prose in which, at its best, a logic of music was magnificently mated to a logic of ideas. At its worst, it was excessive and overblown. Sometimes she took time out from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David Low. She managed to get abroad a good deal, and a shimmering list of continental hosts and hostesses were always eager to entertain her. The posh social life of Paris, the spas...
Trainload of Tears. Uncle Tom's Cabin, one best-seller which did speak to its day, began originally as a magazine serial. A prospective book publisher, reading it then, became alarmed at its length, and warned Harriet Beecher Stowe that he could not afford to publish a two-volume work. She offered to end it then & there. The magazine polled its readers, who insisted that it continue. One of the first readers was Congressman Philip Greeley. Reading it on the train to Washington, he realized that his tears were attracting the attention of the other passengers. At last...