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April 8, 2013
Richard Price, Novelist, b. 1949

�Morbidly obese, five feet tall, and arthritic.�

April 8, 2013
Eloise Has Moved to Brooklyn. Naturally.

Wherein illustrator and writer Joana Avillez pays tribute to her heroine Eloise, the Plaza-dwelling rapscallion immortalized by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight in 1955.

April 8, 2013
The Hilton Sisters

�The press called us �the modern-day Eloises.’�

April 8, 2013
André Gregory, Actor, Director, Writer, b. 1934

�The FBI tried out our typewriter.�

April 8, 2013
Joan Rivers, Comedian, b. 1933

�It was a great place to get sick.�

April 8, 2013
Robert Caro, Historian, b. 1935

�My favorite spot was the mimeograph room.�

April 8, 2013
Barbara Walters, Television Journalist, b. 1929

�I didn’t want my father to own a nightclub!�

April 8, 2013
Jonathan Lethem, Novelist, b. 1964

�The Upper West Side was a museum of European refugees.�

April 8, 2013
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Player, b. 1947

�I was waist high in loaves of bread.�

April 8, 2013
Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State, b. 1937

�Our parents averaged $50 to $60 a week.�