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When word arrived that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she asked her fellow wits at the Algonquin Round Table, "How can they tell?" When Dorothy Parker died in 1967, nobody doubted that a void had been left in the ranks of major American humorists. Parker's friend and fellow writer Lillian Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward...
Written by Lillian Hellman...
...Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...
When she left her work as a receptionist at the California Federal Savings and Loan Association office in West Los Angeles to have her first baby, in 1982, Lillian Garland figured she would simply take a short, unpaid disability leave and return to her job, a right guaranteed by state law. But there were complications. Garland's baby girl was delivered by Cesarean section, and her doctor prescribed a three-month leave. When she returned to Cal Fed, Garland found that her position had been filled. "I didn't know what to do," she says. Unemployed and unable...
...Lillian Garland, the loss of her $850-a-month job was the beginning of a wrenching struggle. Cal Fed eventually reinstated her, but she resigned last spring and now works as a real estate agent. "It's been five years of hell," Garland says of the long legal struggle. "But even if it had taken 20 years, I'd do it again. I felt like I was fighting for all women in the work force. Women should not have to choose between being a mother and having...