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My mother Arlene Patricia Corbett began her professional career as a secretary and through her diligence became the first Direct Marketing Manager at both Smithsonian and The New Yorker magazines in the 1980s. She had aspirations of moving further in the world of publishing but she was hit by a car and died in April, […]https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/files/2021/01/default-thumb.png768432