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In the constellation of twentieth-century American society, no star glittered quite like Babe Paley (1915–1978). Born Barbara Cushing in Boston — one of the famed “Cushing Sisters,” whose marriages connected them to American dynasties — she rose to become not merely a socialite but a myth: the woman who defined what it meant to beContinue reading “Babe Paley: The Perfection of Style”