| 12-31 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Abigail Lewis.
The complete episode for this date...
...will be published
here soon.
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12-31 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-31-1805, Marie de Flavigny Agoult, comtesse
d', noted Parisian writer and social power.
B. 12-31-1820, Mary Anne Madden Sadlier awarded
the Laetare Medal by the University of
Notre Dame for her many novels advocating the conservative Roman Catholic
lifestyle.
B. 12-31-1925, Daphne Blake Oram composed the
first electronic score to be broadcast
on the British broadcasting (BBC), directed its experimental workshop,
and developed a new musical notation system Oramics that reads electronically
and transduced into sound.
B. 12-31-1927, Nancy Hanks, chair of the National
Endowment for the Arts and the National
Council on the Arts from 1966-77. During her tenure, she convinced Congress
to raise the arts funding from $4 to $40 million.
B.12-31-1834, Mary Jane Safford, physician.
After having worked to exhaustion with "Mother" Mary Ann
Bickerdyke nursing Union soldiers in the Civil War, MJS gained her medical
degree in Germany, became professor of women's diseases at the Boston
University School of Medicine, a staff physician at a Boston hospital,
and had an extensive private practice.
B. 12-31-1878 (? 1884), Elizabeth Arden (Florence
Nightingale Graham) Canadian-born, EA moved to New York City in 1908 with
about $1000 in capital and opened a business that specialized in beauty
services for women. By 1915 she was selling her products internationally.
In addition to her products, in her career which made _Elizabeth Arden_
products a househould word, she operated more than 100 salons, health spas,
etc., and became a noted racehorse owner. Her enterprises were sold to
Eli Lilly Company for lack of corporate leadership after her death.
B. 12-31-1887, (Ida) Frances Steloff, founder
of the legendary Gotham Book Mart. Helped launch the works of Henry
Miller, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, Ezra Pound and e.e.cummings.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
LEWIS, ABIGAIL:
"A
woman's sense of time must be quite different from a man's. Her sense of
continuity is internal and natural.
"She connects directly to the source of time,
and the moon that pulls the tides around the world also pulls the hormone
tide within her; her months are marked off without need of calendar.
"She carries her months, her years, her spring
and winter within her."
-- Abigail Lewis
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