Miami News’ Billie (Womack) O’Day Images
In going through my files I came across these great images of Billie O’Day, women’s page editor of the Miami News in the 1960s. (Her real last name was Womack but she used the pen name Billie O’Day in both her byline and her professional life at this time.)
In the top photo, Billie is in the coat on the far left as she won a Penney-Missouri Award for top women’s page in her circulation size.
The second photo is from a Columbia, Missouri hotel room. Billie is giving a thumbs-up and that is Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson nearest the camera. I love the smoke and the liquor bottles as these otherwise serious journalists are enjoying time together.
The women’s page community was a strong one in the 1950s and the 1960s, especially the women in Florida.
