Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen, was "to do an historical survey without making it look like an historical survey." Thanks to a careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through the century by Bernard DeVoto, Gerald Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Editor Allen achieved a nostalgic, perceptive review of the last 100 years that was sometimes as sharp and exciting as a newsreel. He was so well pleased with it that he ran off 75,000 copies more than Harper's normal press...
Station WNBC, searching desperately for a replacement, found a formidable one: Eleanor Roosevelt, who will be assisted on her Monday-through-Friday chore by son Elliott. On her 45-minute show, Mrs. Roosevelt plans to interview "outstanding personalities," and discuss art, books, plays and fashions, as well as major problems facing the world. Said WNBC: "She is available for sponsorship...
When her eldest son Jimmy began running for governor of California, it became virtually mandatory that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt travel west and say a good word for the boy: the omission of such a rite would have given the Republicans a chance to boast that even his own mother wouldn't stump for him. But to Mrs. Roosevelt, who must reconcile the duties of motherhood with those of politics, the journey presented complications...
...Roosevelt home she hugged & kissed Jimmy's two-year-old daughter, Anna Eleanor and told her son severely: "She has a chin like mine. You'll have to start her exercising her chin." Then she turned to the problem presented by a houseful of reporters, most of them thirsting to embroil her in argument about local politics. She solved it by discussing the United Nations-so firmly, so energetically and with so much of the air of a Hokinsonian clubwoman doing flower arrangements that the press fidgeted, breathed heavily and resigned itself to an austerity diet of Larger...
Both men were hired by McCall's able, shrewd Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese, as part of his campaign to crowd the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 4,200,000) off the roost as top-hen in the U.S. women's magazine field. By snatching Eleanor Roosevelt from the Journal (TIME, June 13, 1949), Wiese picked up 200,000 in circulation last year. Though still 500,000 behind the Journal, he expects to pick up more circulation by a shift in policy which Mich and Ehrlich will carry...