Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor's letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery
In August 1942, Ginger Rogers received a neatly typed letter from a Japanese internment camp. "Your head in marble was finally sent off to you," the letter began. A few paragraphs later, the writer concluded, somewhat hastily: "May it go down thru the ages as a remembrance of a lovely lady of our times. The circumstances of its making was strange, I guess somewhat symbolical too." Read full article >>