Richard Brodsky: A slap from Bacall got the job done

... Dallas and New York. Her real name was Betty Perske , a Jewish girl from the Bronx who had gone to school in Tarrytown, and, fame aside, knew and cared about politics. She was an old-fashioned lefty, who had stood up against McCarthyism, and for ...

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