Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood on the receiving line at her 1950 wedding to Marshall Field IV, whose family owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the debutante whispered hopefully to one of the paper's editors, "Now you have got to give me a job." But it was not until 15 years later, after she had divorced Field and headed north to Alaska in a station wagon, that she at last broke into the ranks of working journalists, as librarian of the Anchorage Daily News at a wage of $2 an hour. She was not impelled by financial needs; she just had her mind...
Fanning's editorial reconception of the paper, aided by Design Consultant Robert Lockwood, who has also advised the Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News and Baltimore Sun, was carried out in tandem with an aggressive circulation and advertising plan developed by John Hoagland, the paper's chief business executive. One key decision was to drop the paper's regional sections and publish a single national edition...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors, and during a panel discussion of privacy issues at A.S.N.E.'s convention in May, she said that "the public reaction to the press is finally getting through, and it may lead to a more humane journalism." Says Publisher James Hoge of the Sun-Times: "Fanning is always asking a series of questions to get your opinion on this or that. Yet she does not edit a paper by public opinion polls, but by her conscience." At gatherings of news executives, Fanning seemingly commands perhaps more attention than any other woman except Katherine Graham, owner...
Weeks before Fanning was chosen to run a paper entirely on her own merits, her son Frederick Field and his half brother Marshall Field V put the paper where she never got a job, the Sun-Times, up for sale. The decision "saddened" Fanning. But she reacted in a way that might serve as her axiom in giving rebirth to the Monitor. Said she: "I hate to see traditions die. But I do not believe in tradition for tradition's sake." -By William A. Henry...
...reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter's marriage and removal to Provence. Separated from the child she idolized, Mme. de Sévigné launched upon her reports of life at the resplendent court of the Sun King and of the society of Paris, where she reigned as a famous...