Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cora Hind, 81, oldest newspaperwoman in Canada, famed forecaster of grain crops; in Winnipeg...
...spoke and many a Western wheat farmer wrote his heartfelt tribute. "One of the greatest of Canadian women," said Prime Minister Mackenzie King. These words were the last homage to Ella Cora Hind, agricultural expert of the Winnipeg Free Press, who died last week at 81, still a working newspaperwoman...
Married. William Buehler Seabrook, 56, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo, primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); and Constance Kuhr, 31, newspaperwoman; he for the third time, she for the first; in Sharon, Conn...
...Nancy Wilson Ross, a native novelist and newspaperwoman, has pulled together some of the stories of these old-timers and woven them into a book of travels, essays and speculation about the Pacific Northwest. Much of what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead...
...YOUNG-Josephine Lawrence-Little, Brown ($2.50). The Newark, N. J. newspaperwoman who wrote If I Have Four Apples (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) reels off another post-Depression problem story, this time concerning the plight of a manicurist who supports a jobless father and brother, needs love, finds it only among young men who regard her family as too much of liability. In Josephine Lawrence's appealing fiction the rules of composition are observed ("he said" and "she said" correctly varied) and the plot goes merrily as the wedding bell her heroine would like to hear. If the writing were...