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...number of current overseers have questioned whether pro-divestment candidates, who have run for the Board for the last two years, will be able to successfully involve themselves in other aspects of the University besides its divestment policy. Last year, Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 signed a letter to alumni that said the nature of the Board would be changed by the addition of "single-issue candidates." It was later revealed that President Bok, no relation to Joan Bok, had written the letter...
Four writers, among them Joan Didion, are drawn by the urban razzle and fatal glamour of Miami, the definitive city...
...committee, which includes Management Trainer Karol Rose and Account Manager Joan Dauria, agreed that a day-care facility at Time Inc.'s Rockefeller Center headquarters was impossible. "Commuting in New York is difficult at best, but especially when you have an infant or young child," explains Rose, co-author of the book The Employer's Guide to Child Care (Praeger). "And we have people who work unusual schedules, including weekends and nights." Adds Dauria: "We needed to be more flexible, letting parents make their own choice." The trio looked for a firm that would provide information for parental decision making...
...project began as a book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...
...Rockefeller when he surprised her in the shower "wearing nothing more than a puckish smile" and backing out of a bedroom encounter with Robert Kennedy. When the predictable furor erupted, Braden claimed she was an author wronged: her literary agent submitted the proposal without her final approval. "Of course, Joan approved it," says Braden's agent. "She's just getting cold feet." Braden does not deny the incidents in the manuscript. But they may be blue-penciled from a presumably tamer version she is planning with her husband as collaborator...