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...said Womack, whose office faced Laiou’s for the past twenty years. “The door’s closed now.” Laiou’s son, Vassili N. Thomadakis ’96, said the commencement of every new academic year invigorated his mother, who attributed her youthful appearance to her students. The degree of love and support of the messages delivered to her during her last days made Laiou “immeasurably happy,” Thomadakis said. “It’s a great comfort for me to know...
...image issue right from the beginning. "No mother is going to buy her daughter a doll with breasts," Ruth Handler's husband and business partner Elliot insisted. Her other male colleagues at Mattel, the company she founded, concurred. But Handler, a 5-ft. 2-in. (1.6 m) dynamo, was convinced there was a market for a mass-produced adult doll. Little girls aspired to be bigger girls, she reasoned. For years she pressed on, finally introducing the doll at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City...
Handler, Barbie's most fervent advocate, was born in 1916, the 10th child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Though she married and had a family, she had little interest in staying at home with her children, Barbara and Ken (who resented their mother's naming her dolls after them). "If I had to stay home, I would be the most dreadful, mixed-up, unhappy woman in the world," she once said...
...Lives in Jacksonville, Ala. and is 70 years old, a mother and grandmother. Her husband died in December...
...This started out personal for her, but now she is standing up for other women including my sister Vickie and my 2-year-old daughter Grace." - Ledbetter's son, Phillip, after his mother lost her court battle but was fighting for legislation to change the squal pay law, Agence France Presse, June...