He was a dashing world-renowned sculptor; she, a successful William Morris agent. Both were already divorced. She wrote him a gracious if unsteady reply, agreeing to a date. The phone woke her at a.
It was Noguchi. What the devil did her note say? Was she meeting him or not? You can opt out anytime. In Paris, he was at her doorstep the instant her telegram said she would arrive. Later at his place, by mistake, he poured her a glass of soy sauce, which he was keeping in the brandy decanter.
Morgan will turn 85 in October. As an honorary life trustee and board member of the Noguchi Foundation, Ms. She and her assistant are organizing her papers, which Vassar College is eagerly awaiting for its archives. She is working to produce a film based on the short stories of Ellen Gilchrist and remains on the Board of the Lacoste School of the Arts in Provence.
And then there are the sundry galas and interviews and parties and openings-to say nothing of the entertaining she does in her own home. She is that rare kind of patron whose phone book is more important than her pocket book.
She has always been a curator of people selecting from her impeccable taste and nurturing more with friendship, encouragement, ideas and moral support than with money, though she has given plenty of that, too, over the years.
