Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supremely competent as a businesswoman, working at nothing except building a powerful news machine, Katherine reflected no more deeply on the purpose of such an instrument than to want it to express her loyalty to the politicians toward whom she felt ppke a sister or a wife. Ths vulnerability and the sublimation of her feelings into intellectual, emotional, and political alliances, seemed to be a fundamental aspect of her widowhood...
DIED. Helen Van Slyke, 59, businesswoman turned bestselling novelist; after a brief illness; in New York City. Van Slyke headed the fashion section of the Washington Star at age 19, eventually becoming a vice president at Helena Rubinstein. Adept at identifying women's tastes, she decided in 1970 to apply her talent to writing. Van Slyke produced eight hugely successful modern romances, including the current blockbuster A Necessary Woman, devised, she said, for "blue-haired ladies in the cocktail hour of life...
...between, the sizes, shapes, designs and origins of live-aboard boats could fill pages in Lloyd's Register of Ships. They range from Chinese junks to sleek power cruisers, from 30-ft. sailboats to converted trawlers. At Waldo Point, just north of San Francisco, Sandy White, 32, a businesswoman, lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina...
...virtuous American screenwriter-snickers begin here -who is called to Paris to rescue a bogged script. This pilgrim, played amiably and unseriously by Wayne Rogers, arrives with a red, white and blue jogging suit, but soon, heartland morality notwithstanding, is taking his exercise indoors with a beautiful English businesswoman (Gayle Hunnicutt...
...feel for once like a businesswoman. Of all the things I've had a creative input in, it's going to mean something this time. It's one of my most favorite things that's happened." Well, yes. Thus Farrah Fawcett-Majors described the joys of her new career-as a perfume tycoon for Faberge. Corporate brass celebrated the deal with a Beverly Hills cocktail party last week, where among the guests was Faberge Director Cary Grant, who had never before met the lionized lady. Besides making ads for TV commercials, Farrah will endorse...