Cynthia Grenier: An American Beauty; An American Treasure
October 13, 2006 | By Jack Yoest
Gun Deck
USS Constitution Last night at the Center for Military Readiness Celebration, Charmaine and I had the honor of having dinner with our dear friend Cynthia Grenier. Alert Readers will know her as a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard. Many will remember her interviews with Faulkner, Moshe Dyan, Ingmar Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney and Hugh Hefner. And many of our Alert Readers will have actually read her many articles in Playboy... where she made her reputation as a gifted writer. As an ink-stained wench. Not the normal career path for women in that organization.
Yes, she interviewed Faulkner.
We remember her husband Richard who passed on and is still deeply missed, but his many works live on. His eulogy was given by Senator D. Patrick Moynihan. Richard is proof that good did once come from Harvard. He buried in Arlington National Cemetery, not far from my dad. One of Richard's books The Marrakesh One-Two is Cynthia's all-time favorite.
Anyway, Your Business Blogger was still processing the rich background of Cynthia Grenier (pronounced "Gren-yeah") when I found this email in my box this morning. It was about a recent ceremony to acknowledge Medal of Honor awardees; and Cynthia Grenier writes,
Am impressed and touched to read of the ceremony aboard the USS Constitution. The CONSTITUTION is the vessel my great-grand father Mad Jack Percival commanded on its first round-the-world voyage April 1845 to September 1846. He was quite a character, and one with whom I am deeply proud to share some DNA.
Cynthia Grenier is an American Beauty, an American Treasure.
Cynthia Grenier
WorldNetDaily.comHugh Hefner would agree.
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Thank you (foot)notes:
The Marrakesh One-Two is available from Amazon.com.
From WND, Cynthia Grenier, an international film and theater critic, is the former Life editor of the Washington Times and acted as senior editor at The World & I, a national monthly magazine, for six years.
