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Mary Lou Butcher
Today I am working on an article about Mary Lou Butcher. Mary Lou’s discrimination lawsuit against the Detroit News opened the door for women at the newspaper. (Mary Lou started out in the women’s pages and moved on to the suburban news side. She was demoted after applying for a bureau chief position.) Mary Lou is in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and in the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Mary Lou is part of the Women in Journalism oral history project. The transcript is not available online. I ordered a copy from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection last winter and have been going over the transcript during the…
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Malvina Stephenson
This week I received a pack of photos of Malvina Stephenson from the The Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma. Malvina wrote the political column “Offbeat Washington” with Vera Glaser in the 1960s. Malvina has some papers at the Albert Center. She also has papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I’ve gone through the papers at WHMC. Here is a link to a photo of Malvina. (She’s at the far left.) It can be found at the University of Iowa. Malvina was part of the Women in Journalism oral history project. I hope to investigate more about the “Offbeat Washington” column in the future.
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More Eleni Epstein revisions
I am revising my article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She held that position from the 1940s until the newspaper went under. I continue to find more material about her. This week I found a 3-part series from 1949 that she wrote. For the series, Eleni went behind the scenes in the New York fashion industry. This photo of Eleni, pictured with Julie Andrews, can be found in her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I have gone through her papers several times.
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Billie (Womack) O’Day
I am trying to find more about Miami News women’s page journalist Billie O’Day. (Her real name was Billie Womack but while working a radio station, she was given the name Billie O’Day. She continued to use that name when she went to the News.) In addition to being a Penney-Missouri Award winner, she was a symphony conductor. I haven’t been able to find out too much about her other than an A.P. story about her. There are no references to Billie in the Miami News archive at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
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Colleen “Koky” Dishon UpdateII
I have sent off my revised article on the Chicago Tribune’s Colleen “Koky” Dishon to a history magazine. Koky was a women’s page editor at several newspapers, including the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Seninel. The previous post is video of a lifetime achievement award for Koky. This image is of Koky and her husband Bob.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
