Word: eleanor
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Schiff has dangled the paper before a long procession of prospective buyers. Among them: Eleanor Roosevelt, Thread Heir and Nation Editor Blair Clark, Post Editorial Page Editor James Wechsler, New York Magazine Editor Clay Felker. "It's her way of flirting," says Felker. This year she became serious. Among the possible reasons: the specter of afternoon competition from the News-or from Murdoch, who had been telling associates he might launch his own New York daily if he could not get the Post; Schiff's conclusion that her daughter, Post Assistant Publisher Adele Hall Sweet, would never fill...
...Zeus sent down sorrow as well as joy to the Crimson team that afternoon, as the same rain that blessed the Radcliffe win also fell on top gun Eleanor Apthorp, who was absent from the meet, with a severe case of the flu that kept her bedridden for the rest of the season. Briefly, the day symbolized the frustrating and rather shaky beginnings of Radcliffe's first cross-country season...
There still seems to be a surfeit of criticism, not much of it loving. Explained Eleanor Holmes Norton, 39, New York City Commissioner of Human Rights: "We are drunk on the notion that America progressively gets better. We fail to see that because the world is more complicated, this great Horatio Alger country is finding it difficult to do things that were fairly easy to do before." The result is disappointment and disillusionment...
...ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, New York City human rights commissioner: I grew up in Washington, D.C. Both of my parents had gone to college-the hard way, but they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran together and I was separate. I was also the overachieving older girl. Out of the experience of being an older child who quickly had younger siblings I developed another kind of role -to remain different and to remain critical...
...Died. Eleanor Clay Ford, 80, one of the world's richest women (estimated fortune: between $100 million and $200 million); widow of Edsel Ford and mother of Henry Ford II; in Detroit. After her husband's death in 1943, Mrs. Ford forced her father-in-law, Ford Motor Co. Founder Henry Ford, to appoint her eldest son (then only 28) as the firm's new president. At the time, she controlled 54% of the company's voting stock and threatened to sell her shares on the open market if young Henry...