Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biographical drama of the life of Agnes Smedley, based on a novel of hers. In this adaptation, Smedley--who wrote several books on the development of Communist China, derived from her experiences as a journalist--develops from frontier child to waitress to Berkeley student to activist and newspaperwoman, analyzing first Germany and then China. Deeply committed to the Communist Revolution, she became the target of anti-Red feeling in her native United States, and lived the rest of her life in England. Daughter of Earth opens May 12th; for information and reservations, call...
...Seidman were unaware of these charges, or if she knew of them but failed to ask Burchett about them, she was remiss as a newspaperwoman. If she thought them not important enough to ask about, she was remiss as a decent human being. If she did ask, but spared us what Burchett told her, then she was not being truthful with her readers...
Burning Story. Scott is a freelance writer and newspaperwoman (Winston-Salem Journal, Baltimore Sun) who specializes in industrial hazards and environment. Her research ranges more widely than Brodeur's. She tracks down cases of beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage...
...state and local levels, women have yet to make much impression on government. New York is the only state that has a special women's advisory unit reporting to the Governor, but its head, a black ex-newspaperwoman named Evelyn Cunningham, readily confesses: "We're a token agency." There are 63 separate agencies in the New York State government, she notes, and only 13 of them have women in jobs above the rank of secretary. Round the U.S. there are a few women mayors-among them Anna Latteri in Clifton, N.J., Patience Latting in Oklahoma City, Barbara Ackerman...
Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women...