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To: Rambi who wrote (28620)	6/11/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I wasn't sure about Woolf, but I thought so. That would be a great party. Hellman would be fasinating and a hoot on top of it. Here's the blurb on her: Miraculously, she brought off this same reversal with her physical appearance. Most women as plain as Hellman would have slunk off into a comfortable marriage or sublimated their amorous side altogether. But she defied her facial bad luck as resolutely as she defied the House committee. She had a celebrated and glamorous affair with Dashiell Hammett -- and affairs as well with other handsome and distinguished men like the publisher Ralph Ingersoll and the diplomat John Melby. And this was a field from which she never retired. According to people present, she discreetly propositioned a male guest at a dinner the night before she died of cardiac arrest at age 79.