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Many wives-perhaps in self-defense-join their husbands in this spare-time activity. They pitch in to act as telephone message centers, filing clerks, typists, listening posts and, when the occasion demands it, as reporters. Many are former newspaperwomen; others quickly assimilate some of their husbands' techniques of digging for news facts...
...content," says Eleanor McClatchy of Sacramento, "to have people think I live in a cave and wear horns." Nobody thinks that, but few know that Miss McClatchy, 51, is one of the richest and most powerful newspaperwomen in the U.S. She is president of California's Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno Bees (combined circulation 247,000), and the boss of six western radio stations. In all, her empire is worth an estimated $30 million. Yet Eleanor McClatchy is so publicity-shy that she seldom permits her picture to be taken, will not even say where she went to school...
...tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
Died. Dixie Tighe (rhymes with Zweig), 41, famed New York Post and I.N.S. foreign correspondent, one of the first newspaperwomen to go overseas in World War II, ex-wife of British Journalist C. V. R. Thompson; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...
...less comprehensive title was awarded to Austine Cassini, modish Washington Times-Herald columnist. The title: "Most Magnificent Doll among American Newspaperwomen." The loot: a silver-plated typewriter. Also a trip to the premiere of a movie titled The Magnificent Doll...