USD Magazine Fall 2007

CITY

Life in the One magical season in New York, when anything seemed possible and everything was still to come [ B Y K E L L Y K N U F K E N ]

W hat was the best summer of your life? Although it?s a fun question, after you hear about Marjorie Hart?s right-place- at-just-the-right-time summer of 1945, your own answer may seem a little less enchanting. After all, what compares with taking off for New York City and landing a job Ñ not at any run-of-the-mill department store, but at the upscale New York icon, Tiffany & Co.?And it turned out that the adventure wa just beginning: When millions of people cheered VJ Day in Times Square, Hart was there. When a B-25 Army bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, Hart felt the jolt

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