Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is almost legendary in journalistic circles by now. Several years ago, Sally Quinn, broke and out of work, went to see Washington Post editor Bon Bradlee '43, about a job. Meeting her for the first time, Bradlee offered her a position as a party reporter for the paper's Style section. Quinn accepted, and as she began to leave Bradlee asked her to leave some samples of her writing. She replied that she had never written anything before. Unabashed, Bradlee shrugged and said, "Well, nobody's perfect...
...tale has been streamlined in the retelling but it is essentially true. It didn't take long for Sally Quinn to gain a reputation as a reporter with a good eye for the embarrassing quote and the hypocritical posture, which she had no trouble finding on the Washington social circuit. So controversial were her accounts of capital parties that, according to Quinn, hosts and hostesses stopped inviting working reporters, and she was invited only to those parties she agreed not to write about. "Once," says Quinn, "a well-known hostess remarked that to have a society reporter covering your party...
Whether that is true or not, Sally Quinn was an undisputed success as a society reporter, despite her total lack of experience. When CBS contacted her in 1973 about a position as co-anchor of the newly revamped CBS Morning News, she told Gordon Manning, CBS' news director, "I have the perfect job at the Post, I'm deliriously happy there, and I have no intention whatsoever of leaving." But she did agree to discuss the offer, and the lure of $60,000 a year, the distinction of being the first anchorwoman on TV (Barbara Walters is not, technically...
...Sally Quinn is certainly not a loser [July 7]. The losers are the fine, competent, hard-working women in American journalism who slave to have themselves taken seriously and then watch supposedly responsible news mags like TIME turn a twiddle-headed meatball into a princess of the "mediacracy...
...says that even Novelist-Poet Joyce Carol Gates recently told her that she would sit for an interview only because she was dying to meet the former TV star. (Gates denies that motive and says she does not even own a TV set.) "Don't get me wrong," Quinn says. "Being a celebrity is not entirely tedious. I like being called to do a piece for the Atlantic. I like being interviewed by TIME. I like making money. I have returned from television to discover I have a magnified reputation that does...