October 9, 2026
Tag: Helene Held
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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September 19, 2024 6 Comments
Seafood! From seaside nations on the Atlantic to islands in the Pacific there is hardly a soul alive who doesn’t like seafood. “Crustacean” is such a difficult word to say and equally difficult to spell. The same is true of “Dungeness.” Aren’t we happy that they are so delicious?