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Such are the tips offered in the thrice-weekly column of Helen Vlachos. In a country where it is a tradition that nobody listens to the opinions of a woman, everybody listens to Helen. One of Greece's most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
Ruined Mothers. Helen Vlachos was born to the business. Her father, George, founded Kathimerini, which she joined at the age of 16. "People say it is not easier if your father is the boss," she says bluntly. "That's not true. It is easier." She attended the Berlin Olympics of 1936, interviewed Mussolini in Libya, covered "all the earthquakes in Greece." She worked as a nurse during World War II when the Nazis took over the paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes...
...time packagers who in the 1930s bought as much as $9,000,000 of air time annually, and, along with wife Anne, had as many as 20 shows going in the same week, including such interminable soap operas as Just Plain Bill (25 years) and The Romance of Helen Trent (27 years); of pneumonia; in Manhattan on March...
...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen Maclnnes. Master Spywriter Maclnnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of spies, and again the result is a topnotch suspense tale...
...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen MacInnes. Master Spywriter MacInnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of international spies, and still again the result is a literate and topnotch suspense tale...