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Madame Rubinstein’s ‘Farm in the Sky’ included chickens and rabbits

by David Lardner
May 22, 1943
The New Yorker

Last week the United States Crop Corps, an organization of auxiliary farm workers being recruited by the War Manpower Commission, received the uncompromising support of Helena Rubinstein, who gave a cocktail party to honour it and also display her own penthouse Victory Garden, known to everybody within reach of Madame Rubinstein’s publicity staff as the Farm in the Sky.

We were on hand to observe, and our first observations were that Madame’s quarters, which are in a fourteen-story apartment house at 625 Park, consisted of three floors containing many objets d’art and very few rugs, and that her vegetables were planted in boxes on a balcony off the second floor.

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