Word: newspaperwoman
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Whoever thought a Lucy Stoner would be so being girlishly called a sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...
...Francisco two years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity...
...summer of 1936, when she was 20, she found it. She went to Shanghai to visit her architect father (with offices in Seattle and Shanghai), and fell in love with China. To help tell China's story to the world, she decided to be a newspaperwoman...
...husband and I were recently divorced upon the suggestion of his psychiatrist," wrote Dorothy Ferman (pseudonym of a former newspaperwoman and advertising writer). "Several weeks later my husband voluntarily entered a sanitarium to be treated for depression. I, too, am depressed; I'm also angry. In our lives there was no mother-in-law, no 'other' man or woman. But there was always a psychiatrist...
Divorced. By Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 43, F.D.R.'s only daughter and onetime newspaperwoman turned magazine editor, who now gives a daily radio commentary with her mother: second husband John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz...