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Background
- Born in
- Portsmouth
- Educated at
- Madeira School
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Presidential Citizens Medal🏆 National Medal of Arts🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Trending topics shown first"I have lost my beloved mother, and New York and the world have lost a great lady. She was one of a kind in every way. Her tombstone will be inscribed with the words she specifically asked for: 'I had …"
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1902
Born
Birth2007
Died
Death
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