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...Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) got one-third of the $1.85 million paid for his Ragtime in 1975. Colleen McCullough's 1977 blockbuster, The Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says...
...action team held a reception yesterday in Lowell House to raise the $1000 needed to fund the mission's expenses. Betty Friedan, a founder of NOW and fellow at the Kennedy School this spring, attended the event and called the Harvard effort an "important" part of the ERA effort. "It's going to take a miracle. but I can't give up hope," added Friedan...
With good reason. A generation before the movement, Clare Boothe Luce displayed more ambition than Gloria Steinem put together. She led more serial lives and enjoyed more careers than an amalgam of Jane Fonda, Betty Friedan and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...complete list of fellows will be announced next week. IOP officials have already confirmed that feminist Betty Friedan will be among the group...
...Friedan gained national attention in the 1960s with her bestselling book, "The "Feminine Mystique." She was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women and has been active in the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment...