MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES MAX EASTMAN, GLORIA SWANSON, AND LENORE DOSKOW

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And now from 1938, a quick blurb from former recanted Croton radical Max Eastman who for a time hosted a radio quiz show on WABC. And the winners each received......click on the image.

FOR MORE ABOUT MAX EASTMAN, THE LATE ROBERT SCOTT has a definitive piece in CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA SERIES: FROM 202---Max Eastman, the editor of the radical magazine The Masses, lived in the house at 76 Mt. Airy Road. Later bought by Dr. Dan Salzberg and his wife, Norma, the house is a genuine literary landmark. Read the article at http://notorc.blogspot.com/2012/10/max-eastman-life-of-paradoxes_6.html

As many of you know, Gloria Swanson was one of the village's most notable residents. Here is a blurb from the NY Times June of 1925 concerning her Mt. Airy home. This was during the time she was married to the Marquis Henri de la Falaise.  As for the Marquis--a French aristocrat whom Swanson married in 1925 after her divorce from Herbert Somborn was finalized--this marriage would also end in divorce (1930). Swanson was the first film star to marry European nobility. The marriage became a global sensation-----the divorce as well. For more about Swanson, click here.

And look what we found from Lenore Doskow---1958--an ad for a very charming Children's charm bracelet. 

For those who don't know, the Doskows lived on Finney Farm. A world renowned silversmith , Leonore began her career while still a college student when she received permission from her dean to make her jewelry in the science laboratory. After studying Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris for a summer, she opened a tiny shop in Philadelphia. After a few years, she and her husband moved to New York City, but it was the middle of the Depression and they found themselves unemployed with a baby on the way. Lenore would make items like tie clips in large batches at home, and her husband David would sell them to gift shops and boutiques. They moved to Westchester in 1941, where their business flourished. She and her husband owned and operated Leonore Doskow, Inc., a jewelry company selling to upscale stores around the country from 1935 until the 1980s, when her son and his wife took over the company. Many of her early, pins, necklaces and bracelets are collector’s items. She died in 2009 at the age of 97 (info via The Croton Historical Society)

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