The Life of the Party
Jane Kramer on how a left-wing socialite created an intellectual salon that took over an entire building and ran for forty years.
On Roz Roose's "help": "Roz had help, but she didn't think of it that way, since the help at her house was a homeless Chinese math student who had come to stay for a couple of nights in 1948 and had yet to entertain the thought of learning English, or of leaving."