This is the story of a woman who was so beautiful that she turned down more than 50 marriage proposals before she wed a newspaperman who became the United States’ first ambassador to the Soviet Union, and who then had an affair with one of the most famous illustrators of the 20th century, and who married a second time to a famed opera composer, and who then spent World War II as a radio propagandist pushing for the rights of women, and then spent years in New York City running one of the most exclusive weekly salons in the city. And one of her brothers invented the iron lung. And another brother founded the Harvard School of Public Health. And a third brother sponsored the Von Trapp family for their first few years in the United States. And her sister was an award-winning biographer. Welcome to the story of Aimee Ernesta Drinker Bullitt Beaux Barlow, aka "Commando Mary."
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