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Acknowledgments ix Kate’s Only Husband 45 Mass for Spencer 49 Prologue i Visiting Aunt Jenny 53 The Mayor of Forty-ninth Street 7 Jack Larson 57 Cooking Lessons 13 Norah’s Creamed Chipped Flamande Salad 16 Beef on Toast 59 Generosity 17 Fans 61 Drawing 21 Helping Irene 65 Irene Selznick 23 Opening Night Party 69 Chicken Loaf 25 Stephen Sondheim’s Chef 73 A Friend in Need 27 Norah’s Rum Cake 75 FenwickCOPYRIGHTED 31 The MATERIALIrish Mafia 77 Kate’s Brother Dick 35 Katharine Houghton 81 Dick Hepburn’s Chicken Kate’s Friend Laura Harding 85 Salad 40 Laura’s Lemon Gelatin Kate’s Candide 41 Dessert 88 Helping My Family 43 Spencer’s Daughter 89

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What’s Left Unsaid 93 Robert Wagner 167 Jane Fonda 97 Sidney Poitier 171 The Flower Torrent 101 Norah’s Lace Cookies 173 Barbara Walters 105 My Boyfriend 175 Martina Navrátilová 109 In the Garden with Kate 177 Cynthia McFadden 111 Liz Smith 181 Fenwick Meat Loaf 113 Dinner for a Crowd 185 The Missing Madonna and Norah’s Beef Stew 187 Child 115 Garson Kanin’s Betrayal 189 Saint Patrick’s Day 131 Honor at the Kennedy Center 191 Irish Soda Bread 134 Biographies and Kate, Norah, and Money 135 Autobiographies 195 Discoveries 137 Lauren Bacall 197 The Handyman 141 Anthony Quinn 199 Kate’s Brownies 144 Kate’s Favorite Beet Soup 202 Maureen’s Big News 145 Mom’s Boss and My Wedding 203 Stephen Sondheim, the Warren Beatty 207 Technician 149 The Irish Repertory Theater 211 Stephen Sondheim’s An Invitation from Bob Dylan 213 Gazpacho 152 Mom’s Hot Toddy 215 Entertaining Molly 153 Helping the Restaurant Dinner with Michael Jackson 155 Workers 217 Driving to Boca 159 Caring for Kate 219 Hilly’s Chicken Piccata 162 Letting Go 223 Mom’s Wedding Brooch 163 Two Generations of Courage 165 Index 227

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