women's page history
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Twenty-five Years Later, Arizona Knows About Maggie Savoy
I was so excited to get an email from columnist Karina Bland last week. As part of the 125th anniversary of the Arizona Republic, she was writing about late women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. We still lived in St. Louis when I started researching Maggie’s life and work – more than a decade ago. I was familiar with her name – she wrote letters back and forth to Marjorie Paxson, Paul Myhre and Edee Greene. I knew she won several Penney-Missouri Awards and had given several important speeches. Other than her letters (found in the National Women & Media Collection – created by Paxson’s funding), I had a difficult time…
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Fashion Coverage at the Arizona Republic
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Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages’
I was thrilled to see this great article about the great article about the women’s pages at the Washington Post this weekend: “Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages.'” I especially enjoyed this segment:“The women’s section reported the feminist revolution of the ’60s and ’70s when other parts of the paper mentioned it rarely and then only as a joke. The Women’s Strike for Peace was ridiculed as being a bunch of housewives who should have stayed home, but we took them seriously long before their actions grew into the wider youth movement protesting the war in Vietnam.” and this:“Certainly not those of us who worked there. We lived with…
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Edee Greene Article in Tequesta
I am excited to announce that my article about Fort Lauderdale women’s page editor Edee Greene is finally out in Tequesta. She is one of my favorite Florida editors. She made a big difference for women and had lots of fun doing it. I will be speaking about her at several Florida history events this fall.
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Teatime to Tailgates & Kathleen Kelly
Just read Teatime to Tailgates and absolutely loved it. Author Jane P. Marshall documented 150 or food, cooking and home economics history at Kansas State University. (Lance is a K-State graduate.) She also includes lots of great recipes. It’s a great read for culinary historians and those interested in regional histories. My favorite part of the book was the history of women who became food editors. There are two K-State graduates in my book, The Food Section: Clementine Paddleford and Ruth Gorrell Gray. I learned about a new food editor while reading Teatime to Tailgates: Kathleen Kelly who was at the Wichita Eagle-Beacon for forty years. She is like most…
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The Food Section Pinterest Board
Wonder what the women from The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community look like? Check out my Pinterest board with images of the food editors.
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Women’s History Month: Lowis Carlton
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features food editor: Lowis Carlton. I discovered her name in a cookbook I bought, Famous Florida Recipes. She had a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English from the University of Miami. She also had a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Florida International University. Like many of the top newspaper food editors of the 1950s and 1960s, she earned a Vesta Award and was a judge for the Pillsbury Bake-Off. She appears to have been the Miami Herald food editor after Jeanne Voltz left for the Los Angeles Times in 1960. By the late 1960s, the Miami Herald food editor was Virginia Heffington. She…
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