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Beyond Julia’s Daughters
I just ordered the book Beyond Julia’s Daughters. It’s an update to the book on Miami women that Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson wrote, Julia’s Daughters. Included in the updated edition are the biographies of Marie Anderson and Helen Muir.
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Vera Glaser paper
I just learned that my paper on Washington journalist Vera Glaser has been accepted for presentation at the AJHA-AEJMC joint meeting in New York in March. I was very happy to get the news.
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Eleanor Hart papers
Lance and I spent Friday in Miami going through the papers of Miami Herald women’s page columnist Eleanor Hart. Her papers are at the Historical Museum of South Florida. Eleanor worked for Dorothy Jurney in the 1950s and then Marie Anderson in the 1960s. Her columns are a great representation of social history. Included in her papers were letters from readers and social agencies. I plan to write an article about Eleanor’s columns.
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Florida Conference of Historians
Yesterday I received the program for the Florida Conference of Historians. I am presenting a paper on Edee Greene, women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s, at the conference at the end of the month.
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Jim Bellows’s nephew
Editor & Publisher has named the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Marty Kaiser the editor of the year. It’s really a great newspaper. (Milwaukee is my hometown.) Marty is the nephew of Jim Bellows. He went along with Los Angeles Times women’s page editor Maggie Savoy (Jim’s wife) when she covered the 1968 convention in Chicago. The story is in Jim’s book, The Last Editor. Much of the book is available through Google books. My article about Maggie comes out in March.
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Eleanor Hart research
I have just confirmed our plans to go through the papers of Miami Herald columnist Eleanor Ratelle. (She wrote under the name “Eleanor Hart.” Her columns ran in the women’s section.) Her scrapbooks are at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in Miami. Eleanor reported to women’s page greats Dorothy Jurney and then Marie Anderson. I am working on a revise and resubmit on Dorothy. I published an article about Marie in Spring 2007.
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