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- LETTERS, Page 4Remembering Bette Davis
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- The media may have been fooled by Bette Davis (MILESTONES,
- Oct. 16), but I wasn't. In 1944, during World War II, Miss
- Davis met five 17-year-old U.S. Marines at the Hollywood
- Canteen. She took us in hand, sat at our table, served us and
- never stopped smiling, chatting and caring. "Majestic
- arrogance"? Hogwash! She was the most beautiful and charming
- person I have ever met.
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- Charlie Leonard Danville, Calif.
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- Your remembrance was marred by your index comment: "Bette
- Davis, bitch goddess, dies at 81." You talk out of both sides
- of your mouth with regard to sexism by using the word bitch,
- which demeans women, to describe someone you praise as "modern
- . . . smart, independent, combative . . . alluring."
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- Marcia Levy Arlington, Va.
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