Gloria Leonard(1940-2014)

Grew up in New York. She worked on Wall Street for three years as a registered representative of the now-defunct Schweickart and Company. Also worked for various PR firms. She started out as a copywriter for Elektra Records when they were "just a little one-room office in Greenwich Village.".

[on her 14-year stint as publisher of "High Society" magazine] I started supervising layouts, shoots, writing a lion's share of the copy, including cover lines. I went out on the road and visited many of our wholesalers. There were 400-500. They in turn distributed to the retail level. I met with everyone from the truck drivers to the company principals. I examined bulk records to see how many copies an agency was getting. How many magazines they were returning. I did four to seven media interviews a day at times, depending on what "High Society" wanted to promote.