Original Article: vf.com March 26, 2021 BY DIANA WALKER/GETTY IMAGES. The woman to whom Lonesome Dove is dedicated recalls five decades of platonic endearment with an author who wrote like…
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Fifty years ago, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, Congress held a revelatory series of hearings featuring anthropologists and biologists but also an artist, a theologian, and a…
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Maureen remembers Margaret Thatcher
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Sarge was both brilliant and selfless—too selfless, some might argue, when it came to his own political career. There wasn’t a tough job that Sarge did not do well. When John F. Kennedy asked him to run the Peace Corps, he joked that J.F.K. had no choice but to give the job to a brother-in-law due to its enormous potential for failure. A few years later, Jacqueline Kennedy asked Sarge to arrange her husband’s funeral, and he did so flawlessly.
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Maureen remembers the late Geraldine Ferraro.
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In the end Jack LaLanne was right about fitness and food. He was a quintessential California character—his days were filled with sunshine, even when they weren’t.
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