EVB2925963: Pearl Mesta political hostess gave a party in Chicago during the Democratic Convention. Aug. 14, 1956. Pearl Mesta laughs heartily when former President Truman, who appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg, asked for her name. She was portrayed by Ethel Merman in the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy and the 1953 film, CALL ME MADAME / Bridgeman Images
EVB2926012: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's widow on May 10, 1936. She addressed the All Union Conference of Wives of the Managers, Engineers, and Technical Workers in Heavy Industry in the Grand Kremlin Palace. The wives of the captains of Soviet industry lead cultural work in Soviet Russia / Bridgeman Images