Portrait of y, W.Peirce, 2 . e later added the nickname Poison. Ivy in France in the 2 s. 56 p o r t l a n d monthly maga ine the arts ames d. ulia, a di ision of morphy auctions, .morphyauctions.com 1920s,” according to the New York Times. “She and her husband were intimates in the small circle of American expatriates that included F. Scott and Zelda Fitzger- ald, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Heming- way. ‘Ivy,’ Rosalyne Frelinghuysen, a con- temporary, recalled, ‘was the youngest in the salon, so she always poured the tea.’ Both she and Waldo were characters in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, accord- ing to Mrs. Frelinghuysen.” Hemingway had become obsessed with Waldo’s stories. “He may have seen a photo of Waldo in his [uniform] in the Chicago Tri- bune in 1918… Perhaps this image helped spark Hemingway’s desire to volunteer…” writes Dr. William Gallagher of Bangor, an expert on Waldo Peirce, in the Harvard Re- view. Gallagher notes that once Hemingway reached the front in northern Italy, “He may not have driven an ambulance very much at all… Hemingway drove an ambulance at most three times. Hemingway ended up dis- tributing candy, cigarettes, and postcards in the Rolling Canteens.” Many of the bloody, frightening se- quences with ambulances that Heming- way is so famous for happened to Wal- fect persons.” Call them “the beautiful ones.” Things get a shade darker when you consider that according to Waldo’s grandson, Will Peirce of Kittery, a landlord and former assis- tant to Francis Ford Coppola (including a screenplay draft for Inevitable Grace), Wal- do was upset about the way Dorothy broke it off. “I believe my father (Michael Peirce) told me she had an abortion. Waldo was sure it was his child.” “Dorothy remarried and became a world-class bridge player with her hus- band, Hal Sims [they met when he char- tered her aircraft], until his death in 1949,” writes check-six.com. Even in bridge, she was famous for her “nonconformity… developed during her early childhood,” writes the New York Herald Tribune in her obituary. “She passed away [in Cairo, Egypt] in 1960,” still working as an inter- national political news correspondent. Among her many achievements, Doro- thy wrote the mystery novel Fog, with Val- entine Williams. The cruise liner Barbaric, bound for Southhampton from New York, becomes haunted by an icy mist. A murder is discovered. Then a clairvoyant vanishes, sparking a “cycle of fear” among the pas- sengers, who turn on each other. How Dorothy affected Waldo’s art: Mys- terious, intuitive, unapologetic Dorothy el- evated Waldo into a stratospheric sphere of clients and opened up his audience to col- lectors with deep New York pockets. As for her intellectual elan, Dorothy is cred- ited with nothing less than coining the word “psychic.” In bridge, she invented the term “psychic bidding.” Waldo should have known it was dangerous to try his luck. door n Mber ii the draMa een vy Troutman (1884–1979) was an actress who appeared “in at least 21 Broadway produc- tions between 1902 and 1945,” according to Wikipedia, many of them long-running hits, one of them, The Late George Apley, a satire on Boston high society co-written by George S. Kaufman and John P. Marquand, running through 384 shows. Dark and lovely, Ivy traveled to Par- is. In August 1920, she married Waldo and moved into his flat at 77 Rue de Lille. She “turned briefly to painting while liv- ing in Paris and southern France in the