Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like millions of working girls, tilt-nosed Betty Oliver was tired of waiting for heaven to protect her. At 34, she was bored with her job and with herself. In her drab little office in Dallas, one day in 1945, she began scrawling doodles in her shorthand notebook. They became...
The original $7.50 went for stationery. For months after Betty Oliver quit her $250-a-month job, she an; Business Girl all but starved. "I had to sell a subscription before I could eat lunch," she says. "I had one suit and wore it all week, and had it cleaned...
Her maiden, pocket-sized issue went to 4,000 white-collar girls-and used up all the subscription money they had paid in. To keep going, Betty went to a bank (for $1,000), to Dallas Oilman Harold D. Byrd (for $5,000 and a partnership), and to 90 Texans...
By last week Business Girl had 40,000 subscribers, a well-fed look and a comfortable showing of ads, mostly plugging Dallas-born fashions. Betty Oliver is paying herself $450 a month, employs her husband of three months, ex-G.I. Jack Stewart, as advertising director. Some of her issues...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July 7).