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The original documents are located in Box 48, folder "Women - "Time" Woman of the
Year, 12/75" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Newsmakers
Las A. Times 12/29
Miss Mary to Quit Smokes-Filled Rooms
I particularly dislike 'chairperson.' It sounds so inhu-
man." And "chairwoman" is out, too, said the "chairman,"
á silver-haired, astute, genial, pipe-smoking tycoon of the
Time magazine's yearend cover often goes to an indi-
Mary Dunhill puffs cigar in front of world map.
vidual, usually to a man, and is awarded to "the person or
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group who has most significantly affected-for good or ill
the course of the year's events." For 1975, 12 women
were honored by the weekly. They were First Lady Betty
comes into force. It is aimed at giving women-more than
Ford, Connecticut Gov. Ella T. Grasso, Secretary Carla A.
50% of the population of 58 million-equality of job op-
Hills of Housing and Urban Development, Rep. Barbara'
portunity, pay and work conditions with men. The nation-
C. Jordan (D-Tex.), Chief Justice Susie Sharp of the North
al railroad is closing its "women only" waiting rooms.
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Dozen Who Made a Difference
BETTY FORD: The Most Since Eleanor
retary of state, then a U.S. Congresswoman and in 1974, by a
"I'm the only First Lady to ever have a march organized
landslide, the first woman Governor who did not have a hus-
against her," boasted Betty Ford, 57, after a chorus of black-
band in office before her.
clad women in front of the White House chanted their disap-
Like most Governors, Grasso, 56, has had a rough year. Wom-
proval of her enthusiastic lobbying for the Equal Rights Amend-
en's groups have assailed her anti-abortion stand (says she: "Bella
ment. Last year Betty became the most controversial-and
calls me up and screams at me over the phone"). Most impor-
popular-First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking out on a
tant, her longtime allies in labor and the Democratic legislature
variety of once delicate topics. Abortion: "I feel it is the right of
rejected her demands for cutbacks in social spending and an in-
a human being to make her own decisions." Marijuana: "It's the
crease in the work week for state employees (from 35 to 40
type of thing that young people have to experience." The pros-
hours) to narrow a big budget deficit. Grasso has responded by or-
pect of a premarital affair for her teen-age daughter: "I wouldn't
dering layoffs of up to 6,000 state workers. "I'm still classically
be surprised
But I'd want to know pretty much about the
compassionate," she says, "but what am I supposed to do? Sell
young man." Her candor is deliberate. Says she: "You're very
the state down the river to accommodate labor's wishes?" An-
foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet your-
swering her own question, she says: "Women in office can be as
self coming around the bush the other way."
tough as anyone else."
Her matter-of-fact attitude toward her mastectomy saved
lives by bringing breast cancer out of the shadows into the light
BARBARA JORDAN: Rising Representative
of public discussion and understanding. WE LOVE BETTY plac-
After only three years in Congress, Barbara Jordan, 39, the
ards sparkle in every crowd the Pres-
sternly eloquent Democrat from Texas,
ident draws, and audiences break into
already commands more respect and
applause at the mention of her name.
power than many Representatives can
WOMEN OF THE YEAR
look forward to in a lifetime. She serves
CARLA HILLS: A Firm Hand at HUD
on the House Judiciary Committee,
Betty Ford's "pillow talk"-lobby-
where she voiced one of the most co-
ing her husband to name a woman to
gent and impassioned defenses of con-
the Cabinet for the first time in 23 years
stitutional principles that emerged from
-was one reason that Carla Hills, 41,
the Nixon impeachment hearings; she
became Secretary of Housing and Ur-
is also on the Government Operations
ban Development last March. As soon
Committee, as well as the Democratic
as the former Assistant Attorney Gen-
Steering Committee and the task force
eral moved over to HUD, she began shak-
that drafted a Democratic plan to re-
ing up the bureaucracy with a speed and
vive the economy last year. And she was
decisiveness that dazzled staff aides long
the forceful co-chairman at the recent
used to a more lethargic pace. She found,
Democratic Issues Convention in Lou-
for instance, that a rent-subsidy pro-
isville. In a recent Redbook survey, 700
gram for some 200,000 families had fall-
Americans were asked to name five
en so disastrously behind schedule that
women whom they would like to see be-
not a single family had been helped.
come that still distant figure: the first
Within three months, she managed to
woman candidate for President. Jordan,
arrange subsidies for more than 90,000
Top row from left: Alison Cheek,
who was named by 44%, led the list.
families and then raised targets to 400,-
Billie Jean King, Carla Hills,
Daughter of a Baptist preacher in
000 more for this year. Compulsively ef-
Jill Conway.
Houston, Jordan earned a B.A. in polit-
ficient, Hills has no patience for bureau-
Middle row: Betty Ford, Susie Sharp,
ical science from Texas Southern Uni-
cratic bungling: "I don't just dislike that
Barbara Jordan, Ella Grasso.
versity and a law degree from Boston
sort of thing. I hate it!"
Bottom row: Addie Wyatt,
University in 1959. She then returned to
Hills, whose father was a building-
Susan Brownmiller, Carol Sutton,
her parents' home and set up a law prac-
supplies millionaire, spent her childhood
Kathleen Byerly.
tice on the dining-room table. In 1966
attending private schools, horseback
she won a seat in the Texas senate, be-
riding, playing tennis (she was captain
coming its first black member since Re-
of the Stanford women's tennis team) and living in the Beverly
construction and its first woman since 1882. After engineering
Hills mansion that was used as a set for Paramount's Sunset Bou-
fair-employment and minimum-wage legislation and blocking
levard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an
passage of a restrictive voter-registration law, she went to Con-
assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law
gress in 1972 with 81% of her district's vote.
firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at
U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-au-
SUSIE SHARP: Judicious Blueprint
thor of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice.
Susie Marshall Sharp, 68, the only woman chief justice of a
state supreme court, has been a trail blazer since Bella Abzug
ELLA GRASSO: Gutsy Governor
was a little girl. "Women lawyers aren't a curiosity any more,
The 1936 yearbook of Connecticut's elite Chaffee School pre-
but I was a curiosity in my little town," says the woman from
dicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian im-
Rocky Mount, N.C. In 1926 she was the only woman in her
migrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would be-
class at the University of North Carolina Law School. In 1949
come the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks,
she was appointed the first woman special judge on the state's su-
Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife
perior court, where her reputation as both a compassionate jur-
and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics
ist and an incisive legal scholar endeared her to voters. In 1962
from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state as-
they elected her the first woman associate justice on the state su-
sembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Dem-
preme court and in 1974 they promoted her to chief justice. She
ocratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and ad-
has voted against reinstating a mandatory death penalty, up-
viser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only time he
held the state's right to use funds for busing school children in
would run a woman was when he knew he was going to be beat-
urban areas, and ruled against the use of state bonds for private in-
en. He was not convinced that a woman could win until he was
dustrial development.
shown." Grasso showed him. She was elected Connecticut's sec-
"One of the finest compliments I ever got," says Sharp, "was
TIME, JANUARY 5, 1976
19
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The Washington Star
Monday, December 29, 1975
Names/Faces
No Man's Land
Presumably after a reasonable search, Time Maga-
zine simply could not find any man to name its "Man of
the Year." Instead, 12 women were picked for the
honor because, said the magazine. "for good or and
UP-021
(WOMEN)
NEW YORK (UPI) -- TIME MAGAZINE NAMED NO "MAN OF THE YEAR" THIS
YEAR. THE PUBLICATION TURNED INSTEAD TO WOMEN -- 12 OF THEM -- FOR
ITS ANNUAL HONOR.
AMONG THOSE CITED BY THE MAGAZINE AS PERSONS WHO, "FOR GOOD OR
ILL," HAVE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED THE COURSE OF THE YEAR'S
EVENTS WERE FIRST LADY BETTY FORD, A CHICAGO LABOR LEADER, AN AUTHOR
AND A JURIST ONCE BELIEVED UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR A U.S SUPREME
COURT POST.
SUSIE SHARP, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT,
JOINED MRS. FORD ON THE LIST. THE FIRST LADY REPORTEDLY CAMPAIGNED
FOR HER AS A POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR THE HIGH COURT SEAT PRESIDENT
FORD ULTIMATELY GAVE TO JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS.
TIME EXPLAINED IT DID NOT NAME A MAN OF THE YEAR BECAUSE "IT WAS A
YEAR OF RETRENCHMENT AND REAPPRAISAL."
"IN THIS ATMOSPHERE," THE MAGAZINE SAID, "LEADERS DID NOT SO MUCH
LEAD AS GROPE. IT WAS NOT A PERIOD IN WHICH A SINGLE MAN OF THE YEAR
COULD DECISIVELY EMERGE."
TIME SAID A FEW MEN MIGHT HAVE MADE IT, HAD THE AWARD GONE TO MEN
INSTEAD OF WOMEN. AMONG THEM WERE HENRY KISSINGER, SOVIET PHYSICIST
ANDREI SAKHAROV, EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT AND TENG HSIAO-PING,
WHO HAS EMERGED AS DE FACTO RULER OF CHINA.
UPI 12-30 09:33 AES
Daily ville Courier xens Journal; 12/29/75
Time Names
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in the Navy; tennis star Billie
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Jean King; feminist author
12 as Women
Susan Brownmiller, and Addie
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Wyatt, women's affairs director
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Of the Year
Union.
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Time magazine, instead of
naming a man of the year for
1975, selected 12 American
women of the year yesterday.
Heading the list were first lady
Betty Ford, Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development
Carla Hills and Connecticut Gov.
THE WASHINGTON POST
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Monday, Dec. 29, 1975
PEOPLE/TH
Personalities
Time magazine's Man of the Year for
1975 is a woman. In fact it is 12 women.
Though the newsweekly has honored
women in past years Wallis Simpson, '36;
Elizabeth II, '52; Mme. Chiang Kai-shek,
37, the annual cover for "the person or
group who has most significantly af-
fected, for good or ill, the course of the
year's events" nearly always turned out
to be a man.
The 12, who personify a drive which
"penetrated every layer of society,
matured beyond ideology to a new status
of general-and sometimes un-
conscious-acceptance," according to
Time, are: Betty Ford, HUD Secretary
Carla Hills, Connecticut Gov. Ella
Grasso, Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan,
tennis star Billie Jean King, author
Susan Brownmiller, Susie Sharp, Chief