Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substance of The Towers of Silence is reminiscent of the first novel, The Jewel in the Crown (1966), and of its successor, The Day of the Scorpion (1968). The rape is reinvestigated, and there is a restaging of a wedding already seen in the second novel. The bride, apparently a pukka Englishwoman, senses the unsolidity and perhaps the immorality of the English presence in India, and goes temporarily...
BETTY MCFADDEN, 50, merchandising vice president of Chicago-based Jewel Tea Co., is the first woman executive of that big supermarket chain. The climb has taken 20 years, and she says without bitterness, "I haven't moved as fast as I would have had I been...
...career started almost by accident. Newly married and with a commerce degree from Ohio State, Mrs. McFadden took a temporary accounting job at Jewel and planned to quit as soon as she became a mother. When children did not arrive, she redirected her energy to the job. The drive to excel pushed her slowly up the male-dominated ranks to a vice presidency, paying an estimated $50,000 or more. She fears that her drive also earned her accusations of being ambitious, even ruthless, and she concedes: "I am a much nicer person now than I was when getting here...
...McFadden has been willing to put up with heavy traveling and many all-male meetings. She still runs afoul of slights because of her sex. Recently she went golfing with Jewel officers, and was told that women were not allowed to play that day. In finding more women executives for Jewel, she has been markedly unsuccessful. She admits that she might be a more severe judge than a man would be: "It could be the standards I've set for myself, or it might be a certain amount of jealousy...
Eudora Welty writes books and short stories. Her Losing Battles is a jewel of a novel about a cracker family in the thirties in Mississippi. Her newly published photographs, One Time, One Place: A Mississippi Album is a self-indulgence on her part for which we should be grateful. Eudora Welty is not a photographer, but she has salvaged not only a glimpse of the thirties, but more important even than that, she has shown us how she can salvage her own writing...