Word: newswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attracting readers-both male and female-catapulted Columnist Edwards, 48, into the top woman's job in British journalism: assistant editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch (circ. 1,834,859). The Sunday Dispatch won Anne away from Beaverbrook with the fanciest offer ever made an English newswoman, including a pale blue car, an endowment policy that will put away some of her salary tax-free for old age, a fat expense account, and well over $20,000 a year...
...buildings into a Courier plant, with a shiny new chrome-and-glass façade. Circulation of the paper grew to 7,576, not far behind its afternoon rival, the 28-year-old Ironton Tribune (circ. 9,280). But Publisher Sexton proved to be an erratic newswoman. She ran through a series of editors, handed down unpredictable edicts that made the Courier an erratic paper, e.g., no local news on Page One in the first edition, and nothing but local news on Page One in the last edition...
...Doddering old Mustafa el Nahas, Wafd Premier, once got a certain Madame de Buisson with child, whereupon her humiliated husband killed himself. On another occasion the Wafd party-largely composed of poor peasants-paid ?6,000 to a Polish newswoman to get her to leave the country after she had had an affair with Nahas...
...presentation of the news, TIME is, unquestionably, the most. But why does your otherwise astute editor persist in using the word "newshen" to identify feminine members of the press? That innocuous but distasteful little noun suggests a fusty old dodo, a far from true description of the hardworking, able newswoman...
Reporter Elaine St. Maur found the former model a modest, sincere woman, "still a subject, 35 years later, to interest an artist." Gabrielle glowed, said Newswoman St. Maur, when she spoke of her old life with the Auguste Renoirs. The artist was easy to pose for, let her talk as much as she wished, Gabrielle recalled. He sketched in his compositions lightly and went right to work with his colors, worked fast, knew exactly what he wanted. Asked whether she had liked the many paintings Renoir had done of her, Gabrielle shrugged, said: "Oh yes, but really I didn...