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Frances Lear (née Loeb, July 14, 1923 – September 30, 1996) was an American activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer. Biography. Lear was born with only a first name, Evelyn, to an unwed mother in Hudson, New York, at the Vanderheusen Home for Wayward Girls.
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- September 30, 1996 (aged 73), New York City, NY, U.S.
- Evelyn Loeb, July 14, 1923, Hudson, New York, U.S.
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Oct 1, 1996 · Frances Lear, a mercurial figure in the media world who spent some $25 million she received in a divorce settlement to start a magazine named after herself, died yesterday at her home in...
Oct 2, 1996 · By Claudia Levy. October 1, 1996 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Frances Lear, 73, a former self-described Hollywood wife who burst on the New York publishing scene in the 1980s when she launched Lear's, a...
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Feb 23, 2021 · Frances and Norman Lear were married for 28 years and had two daughters before divorcing in 1985. Frances used some of her $100 million settlement to start the feminist magazine Lear's, which catered to "the woman who wasn't born yesterday" (via The New York Times ).
Lear, Frances (1923–1996) American magazine editor and feminist who founded Lear's magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday." Born on July 14, 1923, in Hudson, New York; died on September 30, 1996, in New York City; adopted daughter of Herbert Adam Loeb (a businessman) and Aline (Friedman) Loeb; briefly attended Sarah Lawrence ...
Oct 1, 1996 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. Frances Lear, the former wife of producer Norman Lear who used her sizable divorce settlement to found a women’s magazine called Lear’s and later founded Lear Television,...
Frances Lear was a political activist and Hollywood wife who spent some $25m she received from a divorce settlement on a magazine she named after herself.
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