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I first met Martine in 1965. I was working then as an assistant to Hugh Moffett, the editor-in-chief of Life magazine, in Paris. I remember the day when a charming…
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On Tuesday, May 24th, hundreds of mourners gathered inside the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City to begin — in the words of Sebastian Junger —…