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...campaign summer of 1960, a century after Lizzie Stanton's declamation and 40 years after the 19th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of sex, the emancipated women of the U.S. are far from ridiculous. They form the largest single element in the American electorate (56.1 million women of voting age v. 52.7 million eligible men). Next Nov. 8 will very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus...
...summer's day in 1848, a plump, hoopskirted housewife stood up in Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y. and read the eighth of eleven resolutions to the delegates at the first U.S. women's rights convention. With her blonde sausage curls bobbing in emphasis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read: "It is the duty of the women of the country to secure for themselves the sacred right of the elective franchise." The delegates were aghast at such a daring notion. "Why Lizzie," cried Quakeress Lucretia Mott, "thee will make us ridiculous...
...Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...
...sisters have not been on speaking terms for years. Mrs. Davis, who takes an active interest in the Post and serves as its secretary-treasurer, cannot understand her sister for taking no interest at all. Thus, when May Bonfils Stanton sold her stock, Mrs. Davis took it as a personal affront...
...surprise maneuver neither guaranteed control to Mrs. Davis nor blocked out Newhouse. He can still bid for the 44% outstanding in trusts, although the stock will now cost him more: the Post paid $260 a share, $20 more than Newhouse paid for Mrs. Stanton's 15%. But by her determined action, Helen Bonfils Davis served clear notice that Outsider Newhouse is in for a real fight...