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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is include in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom soup, usually accompanied by milk, soy sauce, and a dash of pepper. It was invented by…
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
Eleanor Nangle was a director of fashion and beauty for The Tribune and an employee of the newspaper for 45 years. Nangle worked for The Tribune from 1926 until she retired in 1971. During that time she became an authority on fashion with an almost unerring ability to predict future trends. In the early 1960s, when men uniformly wore their hair short and their suits dark, Nangle shocked some of her male coworkers by telling them that there would soon be something called ”unisex” in which boys would wear their hair as long as girls and it would be difficult to distingish between men`s and women`s clothing. Within a decade…
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NYT Fashion Editor Virginia Pope
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Denver Fashion Editor Gretchen Weber
Gretchen Weber was the longtime fashion editor at the Denver Post. She often went only by her first name “Gretchen.” She was born in Boulder on December 1, 1901, to Adam Weber, a barber shop proprietor, and Alice Lytle Weber, a singer and voice teacher. Educated at the University of Colorado, the Parsons School of Design, and the Minneapolis School of Fine and Applied Arts, Gretchen joined The Denver Post in 1931, working as an illustrator, columnist, and fashion editor until her retirement in 1969. In July 1958, Gretchen Weber was among the two hundred newspaper women in New York City scouting out couture collections for her fall 1958 fashion…
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Los Angeles Fashion Editor Fay Hammond
Fay Hammond was a fashion editor of the Los Angeles Times for more than two decades. She retired in 1969. A native of California, Miss Hammond came to The Times in 1940, became a fashion writer and then became fashion editor in 1943. She was among the few fashion writers traveling to European capitals for showings after World War II and had been honored by the French and Italian governments for her contributions to fashion journalism. She appeared on local radio and TV stations as a fashion authority. I found several of her clips in an online newspaper archive.
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Fashion editor Freddye Scarborough Henderson
Freddye Scarborough Henderson (1917–2007) was an American business woman and travel agent known for pioneering travel agencies geared towards African-Americans. Henderson was born in Franklinton, Louisiana, on February 18, 1917 and died on January 19, 2007. She earned a B.S. in home economics from Southern University in 1937 and in 1950, she was the first African American to earn a degree in fashion merchandising from New York University. She married Jacob R. Henderson in 1941. From 1944 to 1950 Henderson owned a dress store in Atlanta. In 1950, Henderson became a fashion editor for the Associated Negro Press chain, and had a fashion column which was syndicated in many American…
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