Beauty-Wellness innovator finds resilience in laughing wildly, loving wholly, living fully. Dorit Baxter has cultivated a capacity for self-renewal since the young skincare specialist new to New York left her handsome unfaithful first husband, then was scorned by Manhattan's elitist beauty establishments. On her own, Dorit eventually opened in Midtown an original day spa offering a lively clientele novel treatments and an exotic product line from a legendary place. Dorit experienced economic crises, unraveling of her playful and passionate pairing with a debonair risk-taker, life-threatening...