Edith Cummings

Edith Cummings Munson (March 26, 1899 – November 20, 1984), popularly known as The Fairway Flapper, was an American socialite and one of the premier amateur golfers during the Jazz Age.[9] Cummings had a privileged upbringing and was regarded by the Chicago press as a member of the city's elite "Big Four" debutantes circa World War I.[11] In 1915, while either at Westover School in Connecticut or at Lake Forest, Illinois,[3] Cummings met a young Princeton University student named F. Scott Fitzgerald.Baker, à la Cummings, "wore all her dresses like sports clothes — there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.The next year, Cummings entered the U.S. Women's Amateur, where she was in match play against Glenna Collett, then an 18-year-old from Rhode Island, who became known as one of the great female golfers of the 1920s.[16][17] During their marriage, Curtis Munson served as a clandestine U.S. intelligence operative engaging in espionage activities against the Japanese Empire under the direction of Assistant Secretary of State Adolph Berle.In his honor, she made a significant contribution to the Decatur House renovation in Washington, D.C. Today, the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation funds a number of conservation programs.
Cummings circa 1920
Cummings on the cover of Time magazine in August 1924.
Cummings' former house in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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