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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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Chicago Food Encyclopedia: Ruth Ellen Church
I am enjoying reading the great reviews of the Chicago Food Encyclopedia. My contribution is the entry for Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church.
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
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Chicago Tribune 1965 Women’s Pages
Great to see this cover of a 1965 Chicago Tribune women’s page on Instagram. Legendary women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon would have created this section – one of many she founded at the Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
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Chicago Encyclopedia of Food
Excited to learn that the Chicago Encyclopedia of Food will be out this fall. I wrote the entry about longtime Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church.
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
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Women’s History Month: Day 22 & Koky Dishon
Day 22 of Women’s History Month features Colleen “Koky” Dishon. She started her career covering hard news for the Associated Press during World War II. After the war, she was a progressive women’s page editor in Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee before moving on to Chicago. She was hired by the Chicago Tribune in 1975 and in 1982, Dishon was named associate editor, becoming the first woman listed in the Chicago Tribune’s masthead. At the Tribune, Dishon created 17 special sections that were often quickly copied at newspapers across the country. In the words of Tribune Managing Editor Ann Marie Lipinski: “Whether you have ever worked for Koky, or ever heard…
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
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Wine Journalism Reference to Ruth Ellen Church
I was happy to see this reference to Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church in the book, American Wine. Church, who initially wrote under the pen name Mary Meade, was the first American newspaper wine editor. I am working on a journal article about Church and the history of newspaper wine journalism, based on my Food Studies conference paper.
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
