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Mary Margaret McBride  Radio Host, Journalist

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Career Includes

Worked briefly in the U.S. Senate; Cub Reporter, Cleveland Press (1919–20); Special Correspondent, Cleveland Press; Reporter, New York Evening Mail (1920–24); Freelance Writer, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines (including series on jazz written with Paul Whiteman for the Saturday Evening Post, 1926); Radio Host, Martha Deane, WOR (1934–40), Mary Margaret McBride, CBS Radio (1937–41), NBC (1941–50), ABC (1950–54), Local show on WGHQ (1960–76); Television Host, Mary Margaret McBride Show, NBC (1948); Author, Here’s Martha Deane (1936), America for Me (1941), Tune In for Elizabeth: Career Story of a Radio Interviewer (1945), How to Be a Successful Advertising Woman (1948), Mary Margaret McBride’s Encyclopedia of Cooking (1958), Long Way from Missouri (1959), Out of the Air: The Most Radio-Active Woman in America—Her Own Story of the Golden Decades of Broadcasting (1960), Growing Up of Mary Elizabeth (1966); Syndicated Columnist, Associated Press (1953–56); Appearances on New York Herald Tribune syndicated radio program (1960)
 

Education

University of Missouri, Journalism
 

Born

November 16, 1899
Paris, Missouri

 

Died

Died April 7, 1976

 

 

 

 

 


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