<p>Or on a more contemporary note:</p>
<p>Swarthmore grad Cynthia Lieve, who is Editor-in-Chief of Glamour Magazine.</p>
<p>From a 2005 NY Times profile:</p>
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Ms. Leive grew up in McLean, Va., with two working parents; her father was a lawyer, her mother, who died of uterine cancer when Ms. Leive was 19, was a biochemist. Her editorial aspirations articulated themselves early: At age 8 she compiled a neighborhood newsletter, soliciting short stories and poems from peers. The catch was, she rejected most of their submissions and used her own.</p>
<p>She went to Swarthmore, where “women’s magazines were thought of, when they were thought of at all, as the enemy of feminism.” After summer internships at The Paris Review and The Saturday Review, she took what she assumed would be a one-year “airhead job” at Glamour. One year became 11. Ruth Whitney became her mentor. She was editor in chief of Self, Cond</p>