Word: adwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another new face was that of Pilot Henry T. ("Dick") Merrill, whose second two-way transatlantic flight earned him a Doctor of Aeronautical Science at Pennsylvania Military College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic...
Founder of Bachelor was no bachelor but an intense, earnest lady of Circleville, Ohio. Publisher Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side...