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TIME Researcher Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Fremd walked up to the huge new ship still abuilding at the Newport News shipyards. At her side as they approached the superliner United States was a sturdy gentleman in a blue suit. A guard stopped them: no women allowed on board. "Oh, that's all right," blandly quipped Miss Fremd's escort. "She's my wife." The guard looked puzzled: "And who are you?" "I," said the gentleman, "am the captain of this ship...
Thus, with the good-humored help of Commodore Harry Manning, Researcher Fremd became the first woman to set foot aboard the United States. The trip was part of her research assignment on the cover story on Commodore Manning and his ship (TIME, June...
...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...