Word: newswomen
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First prize for costume went to five newswomen dressed as the Dionne quintuplets, with the Children's Bureau's new Chief Katharine Lenroot as their nurse. A battered Republican elephant took second; and the Three Little Pigs, one impersonated by Louis Howe's Secretary Margaret ("Rabbit") Durand were third...
Fifth Floor. Around the Herald Tribune's editorial offices and in the city room a woman is seldom seen. With rare exceptions, City Editor Stanley Walker has small use for women reporters. Of various reasons and prejudices, perhaps the most tangible is his conviction that newswomen lack versatility and are practically useless on police stories. His only female reporter is Emma Bugbee, who is indispensable for keeping tabs on Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington and out. In the sport department Janet Owen was hired, at Mrs. Reid's insistence, to cover women's games. There are no others...