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Los Vegas Food Editor Ann Valder
I was excited to come across another new (to me) newspaper food editor from the 1960s: Ann Valder of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I went through a her papers a few years ago when I was researching Ruthe Deskin but had forgotten about Ann. Here is a link to her papers at UNLV. In this story, Ann explains that she will be testing budget-friendly recipes using primarily canned foods. I am adding Ann to my list of newspaper food editors and looking for her daughters to interview.
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Thinking of Betty Ewing
I was sad to see that Larry Hagman has died. Hagman was best known for playing J.R. Ewing on the longtime television show Dallas. Houston women’s page journalist and society reporter Betty Ewing was happy when the show became popular. Prior to that, many people mispronounced her last name as “Urine.” Lance and I went through Betty’s papers several years ago at Texas Woman’s University.
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Happy Thanksgiving
When Carol Sutton was the women’s page editor of the Louisville Courier Journal in the late 1960s, she ran a lengthy story about poverty and starvation on Thanksgiving Day. She strove to include a mix of hard and soft news in the women’s pages – what I think of as quilted news. Carol went on to become one of the first women to be the managing editor of a metropolitan newspaper not owned by her family. Here is my article about Carol. Happy Thanksgiving. We are again spending the holiday at the beach.
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NCA Presentation About Cecily Brownstone
I finished up the NCA convention yesterday with a presentation about Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone. You may not have heard of Cecily but she may be a part of your Thanksgiving dinner menu. This is from a Saveur story about the history of the green bean casserole: “According to Cindy Ayers, the vice president of Campbell’s Kitchens, the recipe was first tested in order to fulfill a request from Cecily Brownstone, the food editor at the Associated Press, who sought help in reproducing a green bean casserole she’d tasted at a press dinner. “We partnered with a lot of writers back then,” Ayers says. “It was a pretty…
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NCA Presentations About a Food Editor & an Advice Columnist
Jane nickerson from Kimberly Voss This morning I presented a paper at NCA Convention that Lance and I wrote about the first food editor at the New York Times: Jane Nickerson. The food news ran in the women’s section. Eleanor hart.nca from Kimberly Voss In the afternoon, we presented a paper about Eleanor Hart and her advice column that ran in the Miami Herald in the 1960s. It was named a top paper in its division. It was great to tell the stories of these important but often forgotten women.
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Mad Men Presentation at NCA
Mad men from Kimberly Voss Today I presented a paper today about women characters in the TV show Mad Men at the National Communication Association Convention. I also looked at the women who worked as advertising copywriters in the 1960s such as Jane Maas and Helen Gurley Brown. One of the women who went from women’s magazines and women’s pages to advertising and back was Poppy Cannon. She is best known for writing the Can Opener Cookbook although she was significant for many others reasons that I am researching. This is the second time I have presented on a panel about gender and Mad Men along with some of my…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
