Radio City Music Hall in New York City to this day is a top tourist attraction, and for this visitors owe a debt of gratitude to Rosemary Novellino-Mearns.

It was her efforts in part that saved the “Showplace of the Nation” from the wrecking ball more than 40 years ago, and she chronicled her ambitious and successful venture in a book titled Saving Radio City Music Hall: A Dancer’s True Story.