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Women cops who have fought discrimination in court have fared well. Los Angeles officer Fanchon Blake settled a memorable lawsuit in 1980 that opened up the ranks above sergeant to women. Last May, New York City detective Kathleen Burke won a settlement of $85,000 and a public promotion to detective first-grade. In her suit she had alleged that her supervisor's demeaning - comments about her performance and his unwillingness to give her more responsible assignments impeded her professional progress. He denied the charges. But many women still fear that complaining about such treatment carries its own risks. Beverly...
...Some others, past & present: Mary Pickford, Fanchon Royer, Louella Parsons' daughter Harriet...
...article on double-header movies, p. 28 of TIME, Oct. 18, you fail to mention one all-important detail of Fanchon & Marco's St. Louis poll. Were the audiences polled attending doubleheaders? If so, the fact that there was a 7-to-3 preference for double-features is of little significance-beyond indicating how much the 3-group will take to see the movie it wants...
Reader Hardin's conclusion indeed has merit; the Fanchon & Marco poll was taken only at double-feature theatres...
...meanwhile a poll of 57,599 St. Louis cinemagoers, completed last week, indicated that at least the citizens of the nation's seventh city still like "duals," by the overwhelming count of 7 to 3. The questionnaire's sponsors, Fanchon & Marco, the potent firm which controls 31 St. Louis theatres, polled their audiences ten days. Other preferences of this quintessentially American city: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple. Only 1,609 St. Louis fans admitted that they liked gangster films...