LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Pulitzer" Edition: Lily? Or Presitigious Prize?
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Readers,
This week, there was a lot of news about the Pulitzers.
We know that these journalistic prizes are in recognition of incredibly powerful, important stories and photographs that change the course of our perceptions about the world around us. Many people will also know that the prestigious prize was established by a fellow named Joseph Pulitzer.
Here's what I didn't know: he was a Hungarian-born Jew who came to the U.S., broke, recruited by the Union state of Massachusetts to fight in the Civil War for pay. He moved to St. Louis, suffering many trials and tribulations before landing in a series of journalism jobs. He ended up buying and merging the two biggest newspapers in St. Louis, the St. Louis Post and the Dispatch, thus starting the Newspaper Baron phase of his career. He went on to marry a non-Jew who was a Mississippi plantation magnate's daughter, a distant relative of Jefferson Davis. What I conclude from that is that he must have met and fallen in love with this non-Jewish scion of the Confederate South on "opposites day."
The other Pulitzer in the news this week is Lilly, because her eponymous clothing line landed at Target. People may or may not know that she married Joseph's grandson. I definitely didn't know that she opened a roadside stand to sell orange juice made from her husband's orange groves in Florida. The juice was messy so she made a shift with bright colored patterns on it to hide the juice splotches. The dresses turned out to be more popular than the juice so she quit juicing and started manufacturing. She had gone to school-- both The Chapin School in New York City and Miss Porter's in Connecticut-- with Jacqueline Bouvier. So when this school chum friend Jackie-now-Kennedy donned one of the cool, pretty shifts, the business took off. The rest is Palm Beach and now Target history.
(Before we go any further please note that all knowledge gained during the research process this week is courtesy of the one-stop-resource-shop Wikipedia.)
The clothing line in Target appears to have made a ton of people angry, and they are all on social media being angry about being angry, whether it's because they view the Target-ization of a vaunted designer's line as a travesty or because the vaunted designer's line sold out in minutes and there was nothing left to buy.
All I know is that, having been in Florida just this week, I could not keep my hair in a smooth, shiny beehive, as pictured above on Ms. Pulitzer's head or here on Pulitzer-clad Ms. Kennedy's. It was very muggy and uncomfortable. It was gross-hot not good summer-hot. Also, what didn't help is that the hotel I stayed in for one night was not the kind where you feel cool and clean and comfortable as a respite from that (sometimes it can feel good!) muggy Miami heat. It was the kind where you spend a good amount of time and energy laying a towel path from the bathroom to the bedside to avoid skin-to-carpet contact at all costs, use a pair of washcloths as potholders to remove the bed-spread and ornamental pillows, and wonder whether the dirt and dust in the ceiling air conditioning vent blowing like a fringed vest was going to land on you if you dared closed your eyes and slept.
Every week, The LZ Sunday Paper tries to stay clean and cool as we compile news and topical information about women in business, politics, entrepreneurship, film, tv, music, literature, sports, and pop culture--roughly in that order. This week, Cecily Strong made lots of people laugh at the White House Correspondents Dinner and hopefully a couple of things in this Paper will, too.
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See you next week…MAY!
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Here's Why Cecily Strong Has The Comedy Chops To Host The White House Correspondents' Dinner via The Washington Post
NEWS & INSIGHTS:
How A Pulitzer-Winning Series Forced South Carolina To Face Its Domestic Violence Problem via The Columbia Journalism Review
This Time, Hillary Clinton Plays Up Her Gender and Key Issues For Women via The LA Times
Salesforce CEO Takes Radical Step To Pay Men And Women Equally via Huffington Post
Why So Few Black Women Are Senior Managers In 2015 via Fortune
16 Women Pass One Day Of Army Ranger School via Military.com
DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin Announces She's Leaving In October To Run Crisis Text Line via DoSomething.org
The 13 Top Companies For Women In Technology via Inc.
Sexism Or Lack Of Professionalism? A Job Rejection Goes Viral via Cleveland.com
Meryl Streep Funds Lab For Women Screenwriters Over 40 via Variety
Thanks To TV's Strong Women, Voters Are Ready For A Female President via The LA Times
The Queasy Cultural Legacy Of Sabado Gigante via Slate
Sideburns For Women via The Guardian
Why Do People Hate Lilly Pulitzer via The Atlantic
What The Lilly Pulitzer Outrage Gets Wrong via The Cut
P*&%ography Has Changed The Landscape Of Adolescence Beyond All Recognition via The Telegraph UK
Chloe Sevigny At 40 via The New Yorker
What Does A Song That Costs $5 Sound Like? via NPR
Dementia Is A Feminist Issue via The F-Word
School Removes Word "feminist" From 13-Year-Old's Shirt In Class Picture via Washington Post
Read Amy Schumer's Powerful Speech About Confidence via Vulture
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
What Life Is Like On Brown University's All Female Rugby Team via Slate
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