Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was "started by a newspaperwoman." But when they skated onto the rink, all became cold precision...
...widow, Maryland McCormick, 57, the Colonel willed a $100,000 yearly income for life. At her own request, he left her no say in the Trib. "I'm not a newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago...
Whoever thought a Lucy Stoner would be so being girlishly called a sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...
...Francisco two years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity...
...summer of 1936, when she was 20, she found it. She went to Shanghai to visit her architect father (with offices in Seattle and Shanghai), and fell in love with China. To help tell China's story to the world, she decided to be a newspaperwoman...