Milestones
Oct 11, 2019
2 minutes
—STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
By Stewart Copeland
DIED
Diahann Carroll
Sophisticated star
TODAY, WEARING GOWNS, JEWELS AND FURS HARDLY SEEMS like a radical act. But for Diahann Carroll, who died on Oct. 4 at 84, it was: in the early 1950s, when Carroll was just starting out as a nightclub singer, she cultivated an aura of elegance that
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