Word: madelon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four years ago, it seemed impossible that Madelon Talley could climb to the top in mutual funds. She had no college degree and had worked only briefly as an ad-agency receptionist before becoming a Manhattan housewife and the mother of three children. Landing a job was no problem. She and her husband, a trade-book publisher, were friends of Dreyfus Corp. Chairman Howard Stein. But that friendship-and some courses in economics at Columbia -got her a job only as a $6,000-a-year statistician. It was enough to give her a chance to show that...