Jan. 9, 1998 Today's Reading: "Faint Praise" by Wendy Cope from
SERIOUS CONCERNS, published by Faber and Faber. It's the
birthday of feminist leader Carrie Chapman Catt, born in Ripon,
Wisconsin, in 1859. She led the women's right movement for more
than 25 years. American novelist Henry Fuller (THE CLIFF
DWELLERS) was born on this day in Chicago in 1857. Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of Art, was
born on this day in New York City in 1875. It's the birthday of
Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine, cofounder of the
New York City Ballet, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904.
French author and feminist Simone de Beauvoir (THE SECOND SEX)
was born in Paris on this day in 1908. Richard Milhouse Nixon,
37th president of the United States, was born on this day in
Yorba Linda, California, 1913. Cartoonist Chic Young, creator of
the comic strip "Blondie" was born on this day in Chicago, 1901.
Poet William Meredith was born in New York City in 1919. Be
well, do good work, and keep