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LOTTE LENYA (1898-1981) once described her voice as “an octave below laryngitis.”…

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The name MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-71) conjures up an image: a woman with…

NANCY SINATRA (born 1940) was everywhere in the mid-1960s: dressed in tight…