Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and the NAACP

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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
04-22-2006
Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and the NAACP

Host: SCOTT SIMON
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Dorothy Parker died in 1967 at the age of 73. She left no family and directed that her estate and any future royalties go to a man she had never met but admired, The Reverend Martin Luther King; and on his death, to the NAACP.

She designated that her friend, the playwright Lillian Hellmann, be her literary executor. But Lillian Hellmann thought that Dr. King was a pompous stuffed shirt, and she didn't think much of the NAACP.

Seemingly out of ...

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