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According to Ruth "Bucky" Hellman '43, a co-signer of the alumnae letter who has held a variety of posts, including vice chair of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, Radcliffe's role is constantly changing...
DIED. MARIE LAMBERT, 76, Manhattan Surrogate, judge who presided over the estates of the wealthy and famous, including Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman and Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward Johnson; in New York City...
Indiana Senate minority leader Hellmann says educational and job-training programs would be his priority in the U.S. House because this is how families will earn better wages and stay together. Though he praises fiscal conservatism, Hellman supports Medicare and a portable health-care system that would guarantee benefits between jobs. He has a challenging race ahead of him in this heavily Republican district...
...Despite Hellman's efforts, her reputation began to ravel in her lifetime, after she sued Mary McCarthy for calling her a liar on TV. Though the suit died with the antagonists, it gave publicity to the fabrications in Pentimento and Scoundrel Time. From the former comes the story Julia, which casts Hellman as a heroic anti-Nazi in World War II. Jane Fonda played Lillian in the movie (Vanessa Redgrave was Julia). None of the yarn was true, but the author stubbornly maintained its veracity...
There is much about Hellman to attack--her lies, her opportunism, her greed. She is big game for a biographer. But Hellman kept her friends--including lovers whom she treated capriciously--over decades, and almost anyone who comments on her speaks of her vitality and her energy. So Mellen's repeated harping on minor points gives her book a rancid quality. Hellman's ugliness, sexual vamping and minor instances of social cowardice are all pounced on and recounted. In her introduction Mellen says that at times, when confronted with a problem, she would ask herself, "What would Lily...