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Audacious in the face of this, the new Ms. has taken the earliest opportunity to blast the advertisers that had long boycotted its pages. Founding editor Gloria Steinem writes that Revlon decided not to advertise with Ms. in 1980 because a cover photo portrayed Soviet feminists without makeup. Not only that, says Steinem, Estee Lauder largely ignored Ms. because the magazine failed to mesh with Lauder's efforts to peddle a "kept-woman mentality." Ms. also presents an apologetic portfolio of ads it did run -- and wishes it hadn...
...magazine's relaunch may be Steinem's last chance to save the pioneering monthly that she helped start in 1972. Before it was sold last fall to publisher Dale Lang, Ms. was losing $150,000 a month, and circulation has since dropped from 550,000 to under...
With the switch to Lauder, she will have a more visible profile in the business world and the media. That, according to her feminist friend Gloria Steinem, is ideal. "I think of Robin as the new woman executive -- a lot more individual in dress and behavior, with a sense of humor, a whole person. That's why both men and women love working for her. She makes it fun for the individual...
...work as a consultant for an engineering company, and to Japan for a meeting of the International Olympic Committee. When not crossing one or another ocean, he has raised money from celebrity friends in Hollywood and New York City (Norman Lear welcoming him on the West Coast, Gloria Steinem on the East...
Being First Lady may be an automatic disqualification at an all-women's college where graduates aspire to be President, not a President's wife; to run the country, not the house; and where previous speakers have included Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem and Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich. Barbara Bush wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium...