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...winning Radcliffe boat included seniors Cervilla, Jenny Getsinger, Lillian Hunt, sophomores Kathy Sullivan, Katy Moss, Wiki Royden and coxswain Nancy Hadley...
...LILLIAN E. LIVELY...
PENTIMENTO: A BOOK OF PORTRAITS by LILLIAN HELLMAN 297 pages. Little, Brown...
...Lillian Hellman has had the kind of life that Zelda Fitzgerald and many another lost lady wanted and thought she deserved. Hellman drank with the big boys, but held her liquor and her health. Her 30-year love affair with Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) was the kind of tough-tender romance that Hemingway daydreamed about in his novels. Most important, she had a successful career as a playwright: twelve Broadway plays, eight of them hits, and one, The Little Foxes, a classic...
...merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn't swim in." She thought, says Hellman sharply, "that nobody could buy her. She was wrong: they could and did for years." It is a rather...