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SOMETHING ABOUT Mary E. Cunningham is even more striking than the cascading blonde hair that entranced media photographers during her recent moment of newsworthiness. Cunningham's background closely resembles those o' many of Radcliffe's aspiring career women. Known as a superachiever in high school and college, Cunningham graduated with honors from the Business School--where a dean predicted that within a decade she would be the first female chief executive of a Fortune 500 corporation. Cunningham, unlike the corporate establishment, saw no contradiction between being attractive and being a competent professional. "I always wanted to be a role model...
...sense, Cunningham has become a role model--not for the path successful women might pursue, but instead for the treatment women in business can expect. For three weeks one of the leading female executives in the nation, Cunningham resigned as a Bendix Corporation vice president because innuendoes that her "meteoric" rise had benefited from a close personal relationship with Bendix's chairman made it impossible for her to remain. Meanwhile, William Agee, the chairman--and the man responsible for the promotion decision under fire--has suffered embarrassment but remains secure in his post...
...mastered it by the afternoon of Sept. 24. In a fit of candor, he faced 600 employees of the Bendix Corp., of which he is chairman, and tried to put to rest once and for all the rumors that his admittedly "close friendship" with attractive, blond Mary Cunningham, 29, had anything to do with her rise from executive assistant to vice president for planning in the stunningly short span of 15 months. In the process, of course, he resuscitated some remarkably anachronistic ideas about women in business. Having thus cleared the air, Agee then settled back to observe the American...
...Edward Cunningham, a lawyer for the city who helped prosecute the case, said Busny "performed substantial rehabilitation without a building permit...
Putting a stop to that speculation clearly required more than a hotline phone call. Thus Agee last week summoned a meeting of company staff to dispel the rumors that his new vice president had become a most favored employee. "I know it has been buzzing around that Mary Cunningham's rise in this company is very unusual and that it has something to do with a personal relationship we have," he said. "It is true that we are very close friends. But that has nothing to do with the way that I and others in this company evaluate...