Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the birth of Triangle Publications' Seventeen five years ago, Helen Lachman Valentine, a lively, bright-eyed grandmother, has been its editor-in-chief. She liked to call it "my baby," and mothered not only the money-making teenagers' monthly (circ. 1,012,998) but the 50 girls and lone man on its editorial staff. One afternoon last week, 56-year-old Editor Valentine called her brood into her neat chartreuse-and-green Manhattan office. "Seventeen has grown up," said Mrs. Valentine with a catch in her voice. "It's a big girl now . . ." Like a mother...
Editor Valentine's dignified resignation capped a running disagreement with attractive, 39-year-old Publisher Alice Thompson, who was promoted from executive editor (over Mrs. V.'s head) only last spring (TIME, May 16). Explained Mrs. Thompson: "Helen thinks that Seventeen is not only her baby-and, true, it was her idea-but also her property." The two old friends were taking the breakup hard; neither was speaking to the other...
...shouting died at Seventeen, fresh outcries filled the nearby offices of Street & Smith's Charm (circ. 581,848), a magazine aimed at the "business girl" audience. Editor-in-Chief Frances Harrington, a peppy, prematurely white-haired woman of 45, had been fired after seven years. Her successor: Helen Valentine. To Charm with Mrs. V. came Seventeen's ex-managing editor. Out with Editor Harrington went six members of her cabinet. (Total casualties at week's end on both Seventeen and Charm: twelve.) Sweetly oblivious to all the tirades and tizzies swirling around her, Editor Valentine announced firmly...
Signature had not requested a merger nor would it consider one, president Helen McCaig '51 said last night. She termed the suggestion "unworkable, since one is an independent magazine and the other a compulsory newspaper backed by the Student Government Association...
Other speakers were Helen Maud Cam, Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of History, and Allen W. Dulles. Radcliffe President Jordan was moderator...