Word: clubwomen
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...When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they liked being called prostitutes. They didn't, and the Herald picked up thousands of canceled Express subscriptions. In 1931, the slowed-down Express merged with Hearst's Herald, and two years later Campbell became Her-Ex managing editor...
This week, in the nation's first statewide election this year, Maine's citizens elected Representative Margaret Chase Smith to the Senate over the Democrats' Dr. Adrian H. Scolten, a Portland dermatologist and political newcomer. Trim, handsome Mrs. Smith, who looks as most clubwomen would like to look, becomes the first woman to be elected to the Senate entirely on her own merits...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...
...wide-open city room that Founder William Rockhill Nelson planned that way, Roy Roberts is easy to see and hard to miss. No secretaries shield him, but callers have to compete with clubwomen, clergymen, panhandlers, bankers, ward-heelers-and reporters who sit in the edges of nearby desks, eyes cocked for an opening. The man to see sits in shirtsleeves, chomping a frayed cigar, nodding vigorously, his stomach like a bolster between him and the desk...
They had been invited to hear an expert tell them how bad their stuff was. Six hundred showed up. They were all women and all amateur correspondents-presidents and press chairmen of Los Angeles clubs. Like clubwomen everywhere, they habitually send their local papers the kind of disheveled copy that prematurely ages the editors of women's pages. Last week, for the sixth time in six years, Los Angeles Times Club Editor Bess Wilson crisply told them to mend their ways...