Remembering Lena Horne

Service
Horne’s popularity grew tremendously in the 1940s when American servicemen fought in Europe and Asia. She was idolized by all races but she got a boost from African-American soldiers who could not put pictures of white women on their lockers, certainly not of the pin-up queen of the era Betty Grable. And so, she noted, she became their muse by default.

• A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92