Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the cartoon seemed prophetic: the Los Angeles County sheriff had in custody a 14-year-old boy who had poisoned a 50-year-old woman. He got the idea, and the poison recipe, he said, from a comic book. There were other alarming cases, too. A 13-year-old boy's parents came home from the movies to find his body hanging in the garage. At his feet was a crime comic depicting a hanging body. Two boys, 14 and 15, were caught committing a burglary. The crime comics they had with them had inspired the crime...
...there is ever an editorial argument between them, it is settled at the breakfast table. In general, Bruce, the general manager, is king in corporate affairs, and Beatrice, the idea woman, is queen in the Journal's shiny test kitchens and its fashion incubators. When one is away, the other rules both roosts. There is plenty of give & take between them and their staffers, who are encouraged to speak their minds and often...
...biggest U.S. women's magazine has; a slogan that hangs over advertisers' heads, like a poised rolling pin: Never underestimate the power of a woman. This week., to prove that admen don't, the October Ladies' Home Journal carried a staggering; $2,677,260 worth of ads on its 278 pages., more than any magazine had ever crammed, into a single issue. It was no one-shot freak; the Journal was breaking its own record, and next month will do even better, having just raised its ad rates...
...recognize as his baby. Last year, it did more business than the next two women's magazines, Good Housekeeping and McCall's, combined. At a quarter a copy, circulation is a booming 4,520,982, three-quarters of a million over Crowell-Collier's second-place Woman's Home Companion...
Last week Dr. Kent, 66, became the first woman in the U.S. to be elected president of a state medical society. A grandmother now, she still works a full schedule and keeps her regular practice. She has been president of her county medical society, and has organized a statewide series of refresher courses in obstetrics and pediatrics. But when asked why she was chosen president of the Oregon State Medical Society, modest Dr. Kent replies: "I really don't know...