Joan Younger Dickinson & Walter Cronkite
Television journalism icon Walter Cronkite’s death over the weekend reminded me of his connection to significant women’s page and women’s magazine journalist Joan Younger Dickinson.
Joan’s husband, Bill, was Cronkite’s United Press supervisor during World War II. Joan and Walter knew each other so well that he wrote the introduction to her self-published book about her early career, pictured above.
I went through Joan’s papers at the University of Wyoming in 2007 and presented a paper about her at the PCA conference last year. My article about Joan is currently under review.
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