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The Cushing Sisters were three 20th-century American socialites. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were the daughters of neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing and his wife Katharine Stone Crowell: [ 3 ] Minnie Benedict Cushing (1906–1978), philanthropist and art collector.
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born Barbara Cushing in Boston, Massachusetts, was the daughter of renowned brain surgeon Harvey Cushing, who belonged to a prominent Cleveland medical family and held professorships at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale, and Katharine Stone (née Crowell), a granddaughter of Ohio congressman John Crowell.
She was the daughter of famous brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and younger sister to Minnie and Betsey, with whom she was part of “the fabulous Cushing sisters.” The three were famed for marrying ...
Barbara "Babe" Paley was the youngest child of neurosurgeon surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing and socialite Katharine Crowell Cushing. Her mother, according to Leamer's book, wished for one thing for her ...
Babe Paley, potrayed by Naomi Watts in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, was Capote's favorite. So, why did the writer betray the queen of midcentury New York High Society?
All three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence: Her older sister, Mary "Minnie", married Vincent Astor, [5] the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940, and her younger sister Barbara "Babe" was married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr., and later to CBS founder William S. Paley. Both of her sisters died of cancer within ...
She was raised by her mother, Katherine Stone, and father, Harvey Crushing, who worked as a brain surgeon. Babe is the youngest of three girls and was close with her sisters, Mary and Betsey. Her ...