Word: businesswoman
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...dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years and was, she guessed, "the sole support of several people." Now, as head of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Inc., she was the cotillion's sponsor. She had no part in planning the ball...
...fall last year, Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, 39, of Greeley, Colo. liked to putter about the kitchen just like any other housewife, occasionally whipping up a batch of cookies for her husband and two daughters. By last week Housewife Ferguson had become the busiest, most prominent businesswoman in Greeley (pop. 20,000), and dozens of her neighbors were in business with...
...Businesswoman Jo Stafford sings anything, from ballads to bop, from hillbilly tunes to hymns. "I don't want to be typed," she says. "Once you get typed, you lose value...
Something Impersonal. Off the air, she switches from sexy voice to hard-working businesswoman, records 285 programs a week-a different one for each city. To get the proper "hometown atmosphere" she corresponds with chambers of commerce across the nation, getting the names of local streets, parks and people. This week Jean was laboring her usual twelve hours a day in her new $5,000 studio. Built inside her home, it is equipped with a microphone sensitive enough to pick up each wisp of her breath and every sugary nuance of her voice...
...America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person, and she ought to be good on the board." Said Claire: "I'm terrified...