Word: businesswoman
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...years the diaries were kept, Kafka became engaged to a generous and efficient young businesswoman. For five years the affair dragged on, but Kafka finally broke off because the girl could never understand his way of living and because he feared that as a sick and. indigent writer he would be a burden to her. In his diary he yearns for marriage and normal happiness; the thought of children makes him ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee...
...year-old Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were married (he for the third time, she for the second...
...when she paid a record-high fine of $213,286 for failing to declare the full value of trunksful of clothes and jewelry that she brought home from France. She was still largely unknown when in 1938 a U.S. Treasury report showed her to be the only businesswoman in the U.S. earning $100,000 a year...
...Missouri, studied journalism at the University of Missouri, got a job on the Cleveland Press, went on to the old New York Evening Mail, soon crashed the Satevepost with a profile of Paul Whiteman. By this time she put her business affairs in the hands of Stella Karns, a businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder she doesn't have lint...
Impossible Assistants. Elizabeth Arden Graham has made femininity a science, and probably earned more money doing it (an estimated $20 million) than any businesswoman in history. In 78 countries where her powders & perfumes are sold, Elizabeth Arden is a magic name printed diagonally on vari-shaped bottles and boxes. Elizabeth Arden, the woman, is sixtyish, not much over five feet in height...