Evening with a Gifted Child
Joseph Mitchell on the nine-year-old pianist and composer Philippa Duke Schuyler—a prodigy who reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, plays poker, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
August 31, 1940
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