Bellows, Voltz and Christmas
For Christmas, Lance got me the book, 80:Our Most Famous 80 Year Olds. It is edited by Jim Bellows. Jim was a great editor at several major dailies, including the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Star. Jim was an advocate for women at the newspapers he oversaw. He was married to influential women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. (There’s a chapter devoted to Maggie in the book shown in this post, The Last Editor.)
Here’s a link to an interview with Jim. Here’s another interview link.
Lance and I are working on a paper about Jim and other progressive male editors.
Lance and I have spent the last two days cooking recipes from Jeanne Voltz’s cookbooks. Jeanne was a food editor at the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times. Here’s an earlier posting on Jeanne. I’m working on a book chapter about her years at the Times.
Merry Christmas.
