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Phyllis Cerf Wagner, 90, Socialite and Collaborator With Dr. Seuss, Dies
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Nov 29, 2006 11:41am |
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| Category | Obituary |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 05:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Phyllis Cerf Wagner, who led a whirlwind life as the socially dynamic wife of two of New York’s most prominent men but who was always proudest of collaborating with a former advertising colleague, Dr. Seuss, on a series of landmark children’s books, died on Friday. She was 90.
Mrs. Wagner died at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital of complications from a fall in the bedroom of the home on East 62nd Street where she had lived since 1941, said her older son, Christopher Cerf.
A newspaper and magazine columnist, movie actress, publisher, writer of radio soap operas, advertising executive and civic fund-raiser, she lived at the center of Manhattan social life, entertaining successive generations of the city’s artistic and political elite, first as the wife of the Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf, then as the wife of former Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
As a hostess and occasional confidante, she hobnobbed with the most famous people of the day, including Frank Sinatra, William Faulkner and Truman Capote.
“In my dad’s day, it was theater people mixing with book people,” said Jonathan Cerf, her younger son. “In Bob Wagner’s day, it was political people mixing with powerful people from the private sector.” |
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