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...synthetic combination of hormones that suppresses the release of eggs from a woman's ovaries. Nor did she hear from John Rock and Gregory Pincus, the doctors who developed the oral contraceptive with $3 million that Sanger had raised from her friend Katherine McCormick, the International Harvester heiress...
DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, Lyrical, Award-Winning Author Who downplayed her social status as heiress to a railroad fortune and won a devoted critical and commercial following with three books, all published after she turned 73; in Pasadena, Calif. Known for her sharply beautiful, economical prose--she could labor over a sentence for an hour--Doerr based much of her writing on time spent with her family in Mexico, where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones...
Whether poetry or pharmaceuticals have done more to benefit the human condition is a debate best left to philosophers. But it's clear that as of last week, pharmaceuticals have contributed more to poetry than the other way around. Ruth Lilly, 87, heiress to the Eli Lilly drug fortune, donated $100 million to the 90-year-old journal Poetry. The esteemed Chicago-based publication has a staff of four, and editor Joe Parisi said it has been in danger of folding at least eight times because it lacked funds. Lilly's generosity is all the more impressive considering that...
...greeted with death stares from Ivana Trump look-alike assistants, I would saunter out with a huge sack of shoes equivalent in value to a semester of tuition at Harvard (this is only a slight exaggeration). For these brief moments, I lived the life of a society heiress, except without the Tiffany’s store credit, but with eight-hour workdays. Another catch in this appealing little fantasy is that said shoes are never kept by the magazine staff. Sadly, everything borrowed for stories must be returned as brand-new—which means, for example, that before...
...there. The Miracle Worker goes up at the Adams Pool in October, Deathtrap is performing in early November at Winthrop House, and Death and the Maiden performs at the Pool in November as well. The Triumph of Camilla is performing at the Fogg Museum Nov. 19-22, and The Heiress (Leverett Old Library) performs in December. If that isn’t enough, make your reading period more enjoyable with The Two-Character Play and Fiddler on the Roof...