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...TIME & LIFE'S 40 war correspondents are newsmen-six of them are newswomen: Mary Welsh, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans, Annalee Jacoby...
Miss Edna, rated one of the South's best all-around newswomen, started her career on the Free Press more years ago than she will confess. Against the wishes of her editor father, she then went to New York and landed a kind of country-visitor feature job on the Evening World. Her boss was the late, tyrannical Charles...
Granted there are few women copy readers. An intelligent person would take them from women familiar with a newspaper set up. . . . Why doesn't he hire newswomen who do know that style is something besides what is talked about in a fashion magazine...
...United Features, beginning with the New Year, a feature called "My Day" in which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places: 2) the fireplace where Presidents had their food cooked...
...Roosevelt's White House press conference last week, newswomen baited their hooks with a spicy morsel from Berkeley, Calif. There, one Martha Ijams, a spinster alumna of the University of California, had refused to carry on as hostess of a Charter Day alumni banquet because Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was No. i Charter Day speaker.*"I do not believe," Miss Ijams had sniffed, "that the world is so barren of persons warranting recognition that it should be necessary for the university to delve into politics to find someone worthy to receive the honor of being chosen Charter...