06-20 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 06-20-1903, Glenna Collett Vare, American
amateur golfer who dominated the sport in the 1920s, winning 59 of
60 consecutive matches. She won her last championship in 1935 defeating
such teenagers as the immortal Patty Berg, an estimated 15,000 coming to
watch the Grande Dame of golf and those who competed for the fun of it
since there were no money prizes for women in those days.
B. 06-20-1905, Lillian Hellman, American playwright
and author. She defied the infamous Joseph McCarthy un- American hearings
by defiantly stating in 1952: "I cannot
and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
The year before her longtime
lover Dashell Hammitt had been jailed as a left wing sympathizer. She did
not go to jail but she was blacklisted.
Hellman never won the Pulitzer although she is one
of the greatest playwrights of this century. Her plays Toys in the Attic
(1960) and Watch on the Rhine (1941) won the New York Drama Critics
awards.
Her Children's Hour played 691 performances
and The Little Foxes which like so many of her plays became a successful
movies ran 410 performances on Broadway. Her plays and books exposed injustices,
exploitations and mean spiritedness. She scripted many of her plays for
the screen.
B. 06-20-1931, Olympia Dukakis, stage and screen
actor, won Academy Award for best supporting actress for her work in
Moonstruck (1987).
B. 06-20-1952, Zoë Baird, American insurance
company executive who almost became the first woman Attorney General
of the United States. Baird withdrew her name after it was disclosed she
failed to pay Social Security and unemployment taxes for her nanny. Kimba
Wood later became the second nominee, but she, too, withdrew when it was
revealed HER HUSBAND had failed to pay taxes for their domestic help but
in spite of it being her husband's fault, she withdrew in the face of stiff
Republican opposition. The third nominee by President Clinton was Janet
Reno who did win confirmation.
To this day, no man has been questioned
in Congress (or by newsmen) about the social security payments of their
domestic workers.
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