Lillian Brown, television pioneer and educator, dies at 106

Long-time National Press Club member Lillian Brown, who taught fledgling television news the importance of makeup and touched up the faces of every president from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, was best known around the Club for putting the finishing touches on all of the guests on The Kalb Report for its first 15 seasons, beginning in 1994.

She advised aspiring presidential candidate John Kennedy about how to look his best on television, and she was among the last people to help a distraught President Richard Nixon on the day he resigned from office.

Washington Post writer – and Club member – Matt Schudel captured Ms. Brown’s remarkable career in an obituary that ran in the Sept. 27 edition. Those who have a subscription to the online version may access it here.