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April 8, 1950

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letter from rome

An Ingrid Bergman News Crisis

Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner’s 1950 Letter from Rome telling of the journalistic excitement stirred up by the birth of Ingrid Bergman’s baby.

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A HOUSE ON GRAMERCY PARK

Geoffrey T. Hellman