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Change the WorldMary Wells
Mary Wells, legendary entrepreneur, broke the glass ceiling back in the Seventies when she founded the ad and marketing agency, Wells Rich Greene.
Sweet Memories:
- Homes: Especially "La Fiorentina" in France, Chesham Place in London and "The Terraces" in Mustique
- Swimming out with my daughters when they were small and my husband to our Riva in Cap Ferrat and zooming off for lunch in St. Tropez
- The saxophone player standing barefoot in wavelets during dinners at the beach restaurant close to our home in France
- The first day of my agency, Wells Rich Greene, with Charlie Moss and 35 great talents along with I Love New York, Alka Seltzer, and years of wonderful accounts
- Painting Braniff planes different colors
- When my friend, John, and I were young and New York was the world
- When "Strangelove" sailed out of Amels in Amsterdam for the Mediterranean -- “That’s my boat,” I thought
- Portofino in October-- it's like an opera stage set and we are the only boat in port
- My first sight of British Columbia
- My first sight of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
- Pasteque and Sandia, my King Charles Spaniels
My Foods:
- French fries
- Eli’s sourdough bread and Eli’s chicken pot pie and Eli’s period
- Very dry martinis on the rocks with lemon peel
- Chocolate chip mint ice cream
- My mother’s coconut cake
- A great crisp apple
- Thin crisp pizza
- Sensational red wine
- Popcorn
Most Important to Me:
- My daughters, Katy and Pamela and their families
- My most beloved friends
I Adore:
- Kissing
- Dancing
- Eye locks with witty, sexy men
- Basketball players
- Theatre -- too much to choose from
- Blueberries
- Caviar -- gone baby gone.
- Boat life
- Netjets
- Mustique, the Mediterranean, New York
- Hotel La Mirande in Avignon and the Splendido Mare in Portofino
- Capri convertibles and their funny drivers and the smiling life
- Radical thinking, going to the edge
- Hunger
- A really new idea...breakthroughs
- Thinking forward not backward and moving on
- Sensitivity and generosity
- A sense of spirit
- Honesty
- Epiphanies
- Art in all its many forms now
- BAM
- Chorus line and Radio City Music Hall kicks
- The new rainshowers
- Clean sheets
- Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and especially Melinda Gates making things better
- Doing my fastwalk up Madison at sundown without a credit card
- Dogs
- Spur of the moment espresso in a shop, on the street
- Kastro’s bar in Mykonos, Greece
