Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Column of Whimsy. In the Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...
Fire & Charm. The daughter of a physician and a suffragette, Sylvia Field was born in Patchogue, N.Y., had her pretty head turned toward economics in 1929 when the stock market collapse wiped out her family's money. Then a 16-year-old freshman at Manhattan's Hunter College, she switched from English to economics to find out why, graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa...
Married to a young economist named Reed R. Porter, Sylvia landed a job with a Wall Street broker who packed her off to Bermuda with ten suitcases containing $175,000 in gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline...
Divorced from Porter in 1941, Sylvia is now married to G. Sumner Collins, promotion manager of the New York Journal-American. At 44, she is a handsome woman with flashing brown eyes, makes the most of her charm and social position in covering her financial beat. At a dinner party last July, she heard businessmen moaning about cutbacks in reinvestment plans and the chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns...
...weekends Sylvia and her husband shuttle up to an exurbanite home complete with swimming pool in upper Westchester County: "I don't put on a girdle until Monday." But every Monday Sylvia returns to an apartment on lower Fifth Avenue and to her office at the Post, where-puffing Philip Morris cigarettes and rattling off her sentences at a deadline-racing clip-she delights in making as many dollars and as much sense as she can out of the clutter of financial facts...