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The
annual Library Lions dinner at The New York Public Library |
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Outside
The New York Public Library. Photo: JH. |
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few weeks ago, they held the annual Library Lions Dinner at The New
York Public Library. They honored as this year's Lions:
Art critic, historian and Picasso biographer John Richardson,
artist Jim Dine, poet Billy Collins and
Audra McDonald. Benefit chairs were Lord and Lady
Black, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta, HRH Princess Firyal of Jordan
and Lionel Pincus, Mrs. Randolph Hearst and Mr. and
Mrs. Felix Rohatyn. |
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Paul
LeClerc, John Richardson, Audra McDonlad, Jim Dine, Billy Collins,
and Samuel C. Butler |
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In
the Celeste Bartos Forum for dinner |
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were held in the Astor Hall (in the front of the Library) and dinner
was served in the Celeste Bartos Forum downstairs. Gayfryd
(Mrs. Saul) Steinberg and
designer David Monn turned the hall into an autumn
wonderland with banks and bowers of leafy, colorful branches seemingly
growing out of every corner and archway, the tables decorated with
large bowls of russet and golden mums and harvest fruits and vegetables,
and all smelling of spices and berries, like the wine mulling on a
late November night. |
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Annette
de la Renta with Mica and Ahmet Ertegun |
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Audra
McDonald with Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols |
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Elizabeth
Rohatyn and Gifford Miller |
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Audra
McDonald
and Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
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Samuel
and Sally Butler |
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Shirley
and Abe Rosenthal |
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Lea
Carpenter and Peter Kellner |
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Lady
Black and Lady Rothschild |
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Chris
Meigher and Nan Kempner |
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L.
to r.: Veronica Hearst, Paul LeClerc, and Elizabeth Rohatyn;
Louise and Henry Grunwald; Paul LeClerc and Marian Heiskell. |
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L.
to r.: Marshall Rose, Elizabeth Rohatyn, and Paul LeClerc;
Donald Marron with Howard
and Abby
Milstein; Princess Firyal of Jordan and Lionel
Pincus. |
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| Photographs
by Mary Hilliard |
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