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...author; of cancer; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The first female staff writer at LIFE, she became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point/Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied by Saturday Night Live's Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd...
...first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...
...guess from the very beginning we decided we didn't want to get in any trouble," said Editor Marrietta Standridge. "In a town this size you can't afford to lose half your business," said Peggy Ohler, who is the paper's artist and Betty Jane's daughter...
...there was the time some guys broke into the forest service office, and we printed their names, and everybody got incensed," Betty Jane said...
...from the box. A light plane that left Cuba for Taos a week before had disappeared. Also, Cuba had just voted, 84 to 68, to approve Sunday liquor sales. "Somebody was saying that you used to be able to buy enough on Saturday to carry you through," said Betty Jane, "and he doesn't see why they still can't do it that way." She added, "But the most exciting thing in the paper will be that if you won a blue ribbon at the county fair, your name will...