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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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Betty Peach – San Diego fashion editor
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San Antonio Fashion Editor Mildred Whitaker
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Pittsburgh Fashion Editor Barbara Cloud
Today I am writing about Barbara Cloud – the late fashion editor several Pennsylvania newspapers, including the now-defunct Pittsburgh Press and the Post-Gazette. In a magazine profile she said:“Not being schooled in fashion writing,” says Cloud—who would later serve as fashion editor of The Pittsburgh Press for 33 years—“possibly allowed me to open up with more personal observations. That’s what I found interesting. When I want to share a story with readers, I begin to write as if I am writing a letter to a friend and I want them to know what or who I have just seen.” And Cloud has seen and has interviewed some amazingly interesting people—everyone…
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Dallas Fashion Editor Graydon Heartsill
A Dallas native, Graydon Heartsill earned a journalism degree from Southern Methodist University where she served as a campus correspondent for the Dallas Dispatch. After graduating in 1928, she began work at the Dallas Times-Herald where she remained for decades. In 1943, she covered the first national press week of the New York Dress Institute and became the newspaper’s fashion editor. She reported on the Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Miami fashion markets. She twice covered the European fashion shows. She won a Penney-Missouri Award in 1963 for fashion reporting.
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