Friday, March 2, 2007

Doris Anderson dead at 85

A giant among Canadian magazine editors, Doris Anderson, has died at the age of 85. A long obituary in the Globe and Mail, well worth reading, details the life of this whiskey-voiced woman who took Chatelaine magazine by the scruff of the neck and and for more than 20 years turned it into a platform for feminism, women's rights and progressive causes. She also made Maclean Hunter a lot of money

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