Vera Glaser
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New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney. In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection. Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time. Eudora wrote to Dorothy…
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AEJMC Talk About Politics & Women’s Page Journalists
AEJMC.2015.Politics from Kimberly Voss
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Vera Glaser: Women’s Page Journalist & Political Columnist
I have been working on my women and politics book – focusing today on Vera Glaser. Glaser began her career in magazine, newspaper, and radio journalism before turning to governmental public relations work in the 1950s, including overseeing the women’s division for the Republican National Committee. Glaser became a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance in the 1960s. Then she became the Washington Bureau Chief for the Alliance in the 1960s. Her articles typically ran in the women’s pages. Glaser became a partner of Malvina Stephenson on election night in 1968. The two women snuck into Richard Nixon’s inner sanctum on the 35th floor of Waldorf Towers while hundreds…
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Book Review: When Private Talk Goes Public
I was happy to see this review of When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. From New Books in American Studies:“Across a series of twelve essays, When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) examines the important and understudied role gossip has played in American history. Whether fashioned as “rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, [or] dirt,” gossip in its many forms is a central, if often discounted feature of American life. Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer A. Frost’s compilation spans five centuries, exploring gossip from the early colonial period through its modern reinvention…
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We’re History: Vera Glaser
My post about political columnist and women’s page journalist Vera Glaser is now up on We’re History.
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When Private Talk Goes Public
Press is beginning for the new book, When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about gossip and the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. The book has earned some nice reviews including these below:‘A magnificent and wondrously wide-ranging anthology of articles on 350 years of gossip about politics, power, diplomacy, celebrity, marriage, morals, murder, mayhem, love, and, of course, sex in its multiple variations, When Private Talk Goes Public has something for everyone who cares about, studies, teaches, or reads American history.’ – David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, City University of New York, USA “Brilliantly – and engagingly – these essays…
