In the year and a half that she worked for NBC—from July 1937 to early 1939 (though she continued to take part in special events for the channel after that)—Lisa built a formidable network of friendships. She had a gift for it, as she had already demonstrated in Rome; through her kindness, grace, life experiences, brilliant conversation, and—not entirely negligible—good looks, she had no trouble charming those around her. In this chapter, we’ll consider three first-rate women with whom Sergio had close relationships, even if they were different in kind. The first two were quite well known: Eleanor Roosevelt and the journalist Dorothy Thompson. The third, Ann Batchelder, was also a journalist and, though much less celebrated than Thompson, proved very important to Sergio, not least because by legally adopting Sergio as her daughter, she helped her obtain American citizenship.