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Poppy Cannon, a food writer and editor, was known for her personal life and marriages. She married four times and had three children. Her third husband was the restaurateur Claude Philippe of the Waldorf Astoria New York. Her last marriage in 1949 was to Walter White, an African American NAACP leader, which was significant as interracial marriage was illegal in many states at the time. The image of Poppy Cannon and her children with Walter White provides a glimpse into their family life source.