Anna Boettiger, Editor

For six and a half years greying, 43-year-old Publisher John Boettiger and his wife, Associate Editor Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, have been running the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Now one of them is gone. Publisher John has enrolled in the Army School for Military Government at Charlottesville, Va. This week his wife, who has been east with him, was en route to Seattle to carry on alone.

John was hired as publisher in 1936 to put the then wobbly, strike-torn, Hearst-owned P-I back on its feet. Anna has always shared his worries and some of his work. In a small office plastered with pictures of various Roosevelts, young & old, she edited women's pages, wrote a column (appearing near her mother's "My Day"), supervised a weekly supplement called "The Friday Homemaker."

Combining some of her mother's energy with some of her father's adroitness, she has had time left to serve on civic betterment committees, to meet and entertain many an advertiser, to run a home and bring up three children (John, 4; Curtis, 13; Anna Eleanor, 16--the two oldest the children of her first husband, Curtis Dall). She has also had time to win the friend ship of P-I staffers. Once, when a sub-executive was about to fire a woman reporter for drinking, Anna said: "Nix! If men can drink and come down here with hangovers, so can the women!"

The New Deal-flavored Post-Intelligencer has not outgrown the strong, conservative Seattle Times. But under the Boettigers it prospered. It graduated from red to black in 1938. Its advertising linage rose from 2,195,475 in the first quarter of 1936 to 2,605,578 in the same period this year. Its circulation (in war-swollen Seattle) is up from 98,298 daily to 113,734.

To Editor Anna (and to Associate Publisher Charles B. Lindeman, now Acting Publisher) is left the job of carrying out the Boettiger policies (local news, editorials, civic campaigns). Says she: "I'll do what I've always been doing on the newspaper except I'll do alone what I used to do with John."

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