The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, November 25, 2003  

WHO FELL INTO THE WATER?
Aw, Darn It. Nobody.

A headline in the style pages of today’s New York Times reads: “Final Splash For Publicist.”

If, like me, you thought the article had something to do with Lizzy Grubman, an SUV, and Georgica Pond, or something to do with Peggy Siegel and the irate chairwoman of a benefit at the Central Park Reservoir gone horribly wrong, you would have been incorrect -- unfortunately -- with both of these otherwise pretty good guesses.

The article, by Guy Trebay, actually is about legendary publicist Eleanor Lambert, who died last month at the extended age of 100.

Pull quote:

As a child, Ms. Lambert had once been thrown across a room by a bolt of lightning. That propulsion kept her moving toward spheres far removed from the genteel poverty of her Midwestern girlhood. Over the years, she entertained Greta Garbo and the Duke of Windsor at a vast Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park, presiding from a Louis XV daybed.

Only in the Times, kids.

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