People, Sep. 29, 1975

Her résumé may have been a bit thin, but the name carried some clout. For the first time since her $56.75-per-week job as cameragirl for the old Washington Times-Heraldin 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 46, has rejoined the working class as a consulting editor for Viking Press. Jackie, who now collects $250,000 each year from the estate of her late husband, Aristotle Onassis, will concentrate on "initiating books, finding ideas and writers," according to Viking President Thomas Guinzburg, 49, a longtime Jackie friend who declined to discuss his new employee's salary. Lest anyone think that working will interfere with her evenings,...

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