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THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...
...Lillian Menasche Katz, 54, started the $42 million Lillian Vernon Corp. in the back of her former husband's dress shop in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with an initial investment of $2,000. Her current offerings are utilitarian (a wall-mounted kitchen scale), frivolous (an initialed toothpaste tube squeezer) or elegant (a nickel-plated travel shaving brush...
...Waiting for Lefty," the play that made him famous, is a perfect example of the class-oriented drama fashionable at the time. Like Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine or Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Lefty was everywhere acknowledged to be as much a political statement as an artistic one. It was quickly hailed in the left-wing press; the drama critic of the Daily Worker called it "frankly revolutionary propaganda...the most exciting theater this reporter has seen in many months...
...Lillian Lin, a member of the Massachusetts National Organization of Women's Task Force on Reproductive Freedom, said the anti-abortion proposal, the Human Life Amendment, could, if passed, cause a "dangerous political polarity in this country...
...turn of the century, fashionable women were so eager to resemble Singer-Actress Lillian Russell that many gained weight in strategic spots to imitate the actress's superhourglass figure. It is a long dietary path from Russell's bulk to the mod-media anoretic, the British model Twiggy, who helped popularize miniskirts in the late 1960s. The fashionable trend toward slender frames on females continues. Currently, three of the ten nonfiction bestsellers deal with diet (see box), and they have dominated the list for months. "No woman is ever too sum or too rich," Mrs. William ("Babe") Paley...