Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women's Page Editor Elizabeth Penrose Howkins...
Since 1943, the New York Couture Group Inc., a promotion outfit for 36 top U.S. women's wear manufacturers, has operated under a system of releasing the news of women's fashions to the entire press at the same time-a procedure that protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted...
...Herald Tribune's Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard sparked a short-lived rebellion by breaking a fashion story before press week. An emergency luncheon meeting of fashion editors and Couture Group representatives was held at "21," and the revolt ended after what Columnist Sheppard still recalls as "the time I was served up on toast...
...women patients in ward 37 at New York's St. Lawrence State Hospital, overlooking the seaway then abuilding, were all agitated and ill at ease, and one was frantic. A housemaid from Alabama by way of Chicago, she rushed up to the nurse supervisor, shouting: "Mrs. Holmes has gone crazy-crazier than we are-she won't lock the door!" As a matter of fact, Attendant Irene Holmes was doing just what the doctor ordered. First, the doors of individual wards, then of whole buildings, were being unlocked and left unlocked for lengthening periods up to twelve hours...
Patients carry matches and lighters, wear wristwatches. Only rings of exceptional value are locked up for safety's sake. Women use knives freely when cooking in individual ward kitchens, are allowed scissors for sewing. They use electric washing machines, dryers and irons. Men shave themselves in the ward barber shop (though attendants change blades in safety razors), and have full access to cutting and gouging tools in the craft shop. If anything, says Dr. Snow, there are fewer accidents and fewer suicide attempts nowadays...