Talk:WomenSports

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I am Rosalie Muller Wright Pakenham. I was the founding editor of Womensports. To correct a few items in your listing: It never was a 16-page insert in Glamour Magazine. I started in December of 1973, hiring Jon(not John) Carroll, Anne Lamott (age 19)and other writers who went on to great things. We produced our first issue of 96 pages, dated May, 1974. Yes, Billie Jean was on the cover.

I was fired in May, 1975 because I would not print a story written by an advertiser, Clairol, telling women how to use their products to keep their hair from turning brassy from sun exposure. I had been Managing Editor of Philadelphia Magazine before Billie Jean and Larry King hired me to start Womensports, and publishing stories written by advertisers was not in my editorial tradition. (Philadelphia Magazine won the National Magazine Award four times while I was employed there--Oct. 1969-Dec. 1973 with child hiatus of two years).

Nearly everyone on the Womensports staff quit when I was fired, but in my subsequent jobs (Executive Editor, New West Magazine, Assistant Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, Editor in Chief, Sunset Magazine) I hired them back and have been great friends ever since. -- RPakenham 16:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)