journalism history
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Clarice Rowlands
Yesterday’s response to a post about Clarice Rowlands inspired me to look back at the Milwaukee Journal women’s page and food journalist in the 1940s through 1960s. After a search of her work, I found a brief profile of Rowlands. She was a native of Cambria, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in journalism in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin. She worked at the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1937 to 1943. In June 1944, she joined the women’s pages as a general assignment reporter and later worked on the society desk. She eventually made her way to the food section. She won numerous awards for food writing – the Vesta…
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Sally Quinn is overrated
Once again, the Washington Post is claiming to have changed the women’s pages into an updated Style section. Here is the most recent reference, tied to an award for the overrated Sally Quinn: “Sally, you all know, is a force to be reckoned with. She is widely credited with creating the Style section of The Washington Post. The section used to be known in that dismissive way as the “Women’s” section. And much as my grandmother blew up tradition when she refused to go nicely to the parlor with the women after a dinner while the men talked about serious things, Sally blew up the so-called Women’s section and made…
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Sally Quinn is overrated
Once again, the Washington Post is claiming to have changed the women’s pages into an updated Style section. Here is the most recent reference, tied to an award for the overrated Sally Quinn: “Sally, you all know, is a force to be reckoned with. She is widely credited with creating the Style section of The Washington Post. The section used to be known in that dismissive way as the “Women’s” section. And much as my grandmother blew up tradition when she refused to go nicely to the parlor with the women after a dinner while the men talked about serious things, Sally blew up the so-called Women’s section and made…
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St. Monica’s Chili
Last night I made St. Monica’s Chili – although Lance added beer to it. According to the Milwaukee Journal story: the late Peggy Daum, who was The Journal’s food editor, wrote: “The recipe originally came from an old Edgewood College cookbook. It won an informal taste-off for the easiest, tastiest chili to serve at the antique show. “Through the years, the recipe has changed as various cooks concocted it. It has fewer beans now and a lot less salt. Instead it has more onions and green peppers, and more variety in the seasonings.” I working on summarizing several of the stories that Peggy wrote from 1955 through the 1980s. It…
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St. Monica’s Chili
Last night I made St. Monica’s Chili – although Lance added beer to it. According to the Milwaukee Journal story: the late Peggy Daum, who was The Journal’s food editor, wrote: “The recipe originally came from an old Edgewood College cookbook. It won an informal taste-off for the easiest, tastiest chili to serve at the antique show. “Through the years, the recipe has changed as various cooks concocted it. It has fewer beans now and a lot less salt. Instead it has more onions and green peppers, and more variety in the seasonings.” I working on summarizing several of the stories that Peggy wrote from 1955 through the 1980s. It…
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Integrating the National Press Club
On December 14, 1970: The National Press Club in Washington, DC voted to admit women to membership after excluding them from membership since the club’s institution. Prior to 1970, women reporters had to cover press events from the balcony – as pictured above. From Girls in the Balcony by Nan Robertson regarding the 1955 decision by the National Press Club to restrict women to the balcony: “Here were the people in the balcony, distinguished journalists treated like second-class citizens. I had to cover the stories there. Some people equated the balcony with the back of the bus, but at least the bus got everybody to the same destination just as…
