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MARTHE HANAU—CON FEMME EXTRAORDINAIRE PART 2

THE SWINDLING PRESIDENTE has a timely ring to it, but note that final “e.” It’s a female president that Janet Flanner described in The New Yorker, August 19, 1939, and … Continue reading

October 24, 2020 · Leave a comment

MARTHE HANAU—CON FEMME EXTRAORDINAIRE PART 1

I BELIEVE IN equal opportunity for men and women. Thus, when I learned from The New Yorker about a “woman, with vulgar, virile gestures,…and a fulminating vocabulary and voice, both … Continue reading

October 23, 2020 · Leave a comment