Fashion Editor Mary Alice Bookhart

Mary Alice Bookhart was from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her first job was as a reporter at the Pine Bluff Graphic. In 1942 she joined the Clarion-Ledger where she worked as the women’s page editor and the fashion editor. The Newspaper.Archive has several examples of her fashion clips.

She was a president of the Jackson Symphony League and a supporter of the arts.

She was married and had two children. She retired in 1977 and died in August of 1996.

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