Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to be her grandfather, but spry is hardly the word for the pace he sets. After four months of marriage, Joan Martin Douglas, 23, reported that she could keep up-just barely-with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65. "I'm taking vitamin pills," confessed the jurist's third wife. "Some people wondered how my husband would keep up with me, but I can't think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right...
When a leggy brunette named Joan Kinney moved west from Chicago last year, she had nothing more adventurous in mind than some postgraduate courses in creative writing at San Fran cisco State College. But Joan soon found something far more exciting. To day, at 25, she publishes the Livermore, Calif., Independent, a weekly newspaper that after only two months in print is already making money. Says Miss Kinney with some surprise: "We've been rather a shocking success...
...come right out of the Herald and News's ad accounts. Says Robert Penland, Herald and News publisher: "We're probably going to have to work a little harder." Even if he does, his new competitor will retain one distinct advantage. Robert Penland sells his paper; Joan Kinney gives her Independent away free...
...increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with a staff of two. Joan Kinney in Livermore, on the other hand, pays the salaries of 13 editorial hands...
...Abydos on the Nile was the first woman archaeologist to conduct her own "digs," went tenting with Bedouins at 70, finally "retired" to lecture on sorcery in England, where she held listeners spellbound as she expounded her thesis that the Inquisitors were absolutely right, Joan of Arc was indeed a witch; in Welwyn, Hertfordshire...