Word: fremd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondents George Bookman and Mary Elizabeth Fremd began working with Government agencies in Washington. From Seattle. Bob Shnayerson reported the burgeoning picture of the Northwest from sockeye salmon to the timber boom. The general condition of Midwest business was reported by George Harris in Chicago. Fred Collins reported the automotive story of Detroit. Cleveland's progress as a major automotive and chemical center, the uranium-stock boom in Salt Lake City, the new skyscraper skyline of Denver, were parts of the big story that began to flow in to our New York editorial offices...
...Fremd is head researcher for TIME'S Business section, with a staff of five researchers who go out on interviews, gather background material for writers, run down elusive figures and check facts. As it happens, Researcher Fremd's job at TIME is somewhat different from the career she had originally planned. In the seventh grade at Larchmont, N.Y. she decided to become a police reporter. She joined TIME in 1946 after editorial and production jobs on industrial trade magazines. By then her interests had veered from crime to finance, and she was hired as a researcher...
Among the people Researcher Fremd has interviewed are such TIME cover subjects as Movie Magnate J. Arthur Rank; Dress Designer Sophie Gimbel; Crawford Greenewalt, president of Du Pont; Fashion Model Lisa Fonssagrives; and David Sarnoff...
...cover story on John and George Hartford of the A. & P. stores (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). Researcher Fremd and writer managed to arrange for an interview that was scheduled for 30 minutes; it lasted some five hours. There was also a tour of an A. & P. store in New Rochelle, N.Y. with John Hartford ("He was wonderful; I got 30 pages of quotes including his dismay at the high cost of radishes") and an invitation to tour the Hartford country place in Valhalla, N.Y. The Valhalla tour was made with "a magnificent horse drawing a real fringe-topped surrey." After...
...open-toed shoes, she noticed Mr. Wilson whispering to his chauffeur, who returned a short time later with a shoe box which Wilson gravely presented to Liz. It contained a pair of rubbers. After that, whenever she phoned him, Mr. Wilson's sign-off to TIME Researcher Fremd was "Keep your feet...