Stay ConnectedA Podcast About Wonderful & Unexpected Things
Want to listen to something nice for a change? Love Letters to… is a short burst of celebration, delivered to your phone twice a week. Alicia and Melissa shine their prodigious light on the most interesting and impactful people, events, and ideas throughout time.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate Madeleine Carroll, the prototype for every Alfred Hitchcock Blonde.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the Great Pyramid of Giza, and well as share a little love with the other six additional Wonders of the Ancient World.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate a Hollywood first, and then the Hollywood firsts that followed. On May 16, 1929, a couple of hundred industry types gathered for the very first Academy Awards. Hosted by silent film legend Douglas Fairbanks, the event lasted about 15 minutes. It would be a decade before the statues themselves came be known as Oscars, and since then, the Oscars have heralded all kinds of firsts.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the man who first, if only briefly, broke baseball's color barrier, Moses Fleetwood Walker. His single season with the Toledo Bluestockings in 1884 was met with predictable resistance, even from his own teammates. He went on to lead a life notable for its achievements as well as its setbacks, but his trailblazing has been largely forgotten since his death in 1924.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate an iconic toy which pioneered a new approach to marketing: Mr. Potato Head. Hasbro hit a home run by advertising its new offering on television - a first - and directly to children - another first - to harness what has come to be known as "Pester Power." The toy market, and children's television, would never be the same.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the inventor of a notable first: Caresse Crosby (born Mary 'Polly' Phelps), the first person to patent the bra in the United States. This happened when Caresse was a young woman, and for most people, it would have been a crowning life achievement. Not Caresse though. Patenting the bra was the first of many extraordinary adventures in a life she lived entirely her way.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate Carol Saroyan Matthau, also known as Carol Grace, the first and most enduring of Truman Capote's Swans. Was she the inspiration for his Holly Golightly character in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the remarkable passion of Eunice Kennedy Shriver who, informed by the struggles of her sister, Rosemary Kennedy, founded the Special Olympics and helped change the world for millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate Beverly Johnson, the first Black woman to grace the cover of Vogue and French Elle.
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In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the television show I Love Lucy - filled with so many first times!
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