By Amy Schapiro
Amy Schapiro has written the 1st biography of Millicent Fenwick, the preferred and colourful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered because the pipe-smoking grandmother who many think served because the version for Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury personality Lacey Davenport, Fenwick transcended that stereotype to turn into, within the phrases of Walter Cronkite, ''the moral sense of Congress.''
Born in 1910 into cozy situations, Fenwick confronted tragedy at an early age while her mom used to be misplaced within the sinking of the Lusitania. Following an upper-class formative years and a failed marriage, she all started a fourteen-year profession at style journal.
In the Sixties, Fenwick turned interested in the civil rights circulation and participated in neighborhood and country politics in New Jersey. Blessed with awesome beauty and a pointy wit, she reduce a glamorous determine, emerging speedy in the course of the ranks of the nation Republican celebration at a time whilst such a lot of her friends have been retiring. whilst this colourful, outspoken figure—one of in basic terms 5 New Jersey girls ever elected to Congress—went to Washington in 1975 at age sixty-four, her victory was once portrayed through the media as a ''geriatric triumph.''
Schapiro’s wide interviews with Fenwick’s son, Hugh, who granted her unique rights to Fenwick’s own papers, oral histories, letters, and images, offer infrequent perception into the lifestyles and profession of 1 of America’s such a lot memorable politicians.
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16 Ogden later recounted to a reporter what happened next, and the account appeared in the New York Times with the headline, “Ogden H. ” “London, May 9— Ogden H. Hammond of New York, said: “Some steward started to lower a boat and I put my wife and the other women in sight in and got in myself. A man at the bow let a rope slip through his hands while the man at stern paid out slowly. “The situation was terrible. We were dropping to a perpendicular, and I caught a rope and tried to stop the boat from falling.
Bodies were strewn everywhere. Survivors walked around in a daze looking at body after body trying to see if they recognized missing family or friends. Corpses were hard to identify because many were bloated or mutilated by birds and fish. About 140 unidentified victims were buried in mass graves at Queenstown. For months, bodies continued to wash ashore. They resembled skeletons more than people, and few could be identified beyond gender. Nine hundred passengers were never found. As Ogden searched for Mary he prayed for news about her.
The girls were more impressed with the hotel than with Oggie. While he did not initially appear cute to his older sisters, he too grew into a handsome child and adult. The three siblings had a formal upbringing that emphasized etiquette and diction. Their parents adhered to the old-fashioned philosophy that children should be seen but not heard. The Hammonds employed a staff of more than two dozen at the height of the summer season to maintain the Bernardsville estate and care for their children.