Oh how I love the Marcel waves she's sporting! This hairstyle was the bee's knees in her day. She is a lovely woman, very classically boned. *sigh* I was born five decades too late.

The American Airlines crash that Mrs. Lange died in is the same crash that "Mad Men" references in Season 2, Episode 2. It was about the same time John Glenn was being honored with a ticker-tape on Broadway for being the first American to orbit the Earth.

July 15, 1913: Elinor Katrine McNeir born in New York City.

March 27, 1934: Elinor McNeir, senior at Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C., is engaged to Laurence Lange, NYU '30.

July 1, 1934: Married in Bronxville, N.Y.

April 25, 1936: Son Thomas born.

Couple resided in Bronxville. Mr. Lange was a college dean. Frequent appearances by the Langes in NYT social pages.

March 1, 1962: The Langes are among 95 people killed in the crash of an American Airlines 707 jet shortly after takeoff from Idlewild Airport.

(NYT archives).

And don't you ever forget it, Hubby "Dear," or she'll fracture your skull with a rolling pin!

She's right out of a Laurel & Hardy movie: "Oh, so you've been out on the town again, Ollie? Have you?"

"But honey-pie... sugar-face... you just don't understand..."

"I understand all right, you worm!"

Miss McNeir is a LOT betting looking than Miss Orloff.

What an amazingly clear photograph for the time. I love the details of her lower lashes and the soft hairs on her face. A beautiful woman wonderfully photographed.

The inimitable Madeline Kahn, in "Young Frankenstein"!

Chaco, the dress was something Miss Elinor saw in the window and just had to have.

Single you say? I'm getting notions.

A true "peaches and cream" complexion, elegant long neck and perfect jawline. A photographer's dream.

That hairstyle is known as the old classic "finger wave."

That fabric reminds of curtains my Mother used to have in the living room.