"W”	"Y’ WITH WOMAN’S DIGEST

"Woman

Publisher

TOM FARRELL

Editorial Director

THEODORE IRWIN

Executive Editor

DOROTHY M. JOHNSON

Art Director

FRANC L. ROGGERI

Fashions

LORNA FARRELL

Feature Editor

JUDITH QUEHL

Associate Editors
Lora O’Reilly, Virginia Davlin,
Bertha O’Neil, Ruth Pickering,
Doris Waters, Deyanne Farrell,
Harriet Adams

General Manager

ARNOLD ABRAMSON

Circulation Director

HERBERT C. HAUPTMANN

Advertising Director

MARC REILLY

Public Relations Director

ROBERT J. ABRAMSON

May 1949

VOL XXII, No. 5

Sales Promotion

CATHERINE BEHNKE

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WOMAN WITH WOMAN’S ___
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ANNA ROOSEVELT . . . EDITOR

My Life with F.D.R., Part I . . Anna Roosevelt 6
Runaway Chiltlren..........Bertram Vogel 17
I Want to Go to Church .... Anonymous 23
I Had My Third Baby Without an Anesthetic .

.....................Parents’ Magazine 27

How to Lose a Husband . . Harriet W illiamson 30
Sojourner Truth: Friend of Freedom ....

.....................The New Republic 33

How Feminine Can You Get? . . Maclean’s 38
Plant Me Now, Dig Me Later . . Jules Archer 43
Retreat from Reality . . . Science Illustrated 46
Murder for Pleasure . . The Grafic Magazine 53

Good Grooming for Busy Women ........

.......................Mary Stuyvesant 57

The Woman’s Fashion Jury. . Picture Feature 60
The Society of Cats .New York Times Magazine 68
Your Clothes Can Be Flameproof..........

...................Ronnie Halkenhauser 72

Woman of the Month: Shirley Dinsdale . .

.......................Picture Feature 76

The Beginning and End of a Drug Addict . .

................Chicago Sunday Tribune 81

Hollywood’s Cruelest Hoaxes . Modern Screen 84
BOOK CONDENSATION: The Plundered

Heart, Part I ..............Boris Todrin 89

The Comeback of Shim Malone ..........

.......................Anna Roosevelt 104

For Children Only..........Rita Anthony 109
The Armchair Shopper . . Doris M. Jennings 110
The Woman Crochets .... Ruth Hatcher 116
Sew Smart and Easy........Virginia Carter 120

I Tight 1949 by Farrell Publishing
ration	Printed in U. S. A,

Cover: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt at the ages of 24
and 22, respectively, with their baby daughter, Anna, six months old. The
family picture was taken in New York in December of 1906.

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