Background
Mary Carter Carson was born in Chicago in 1905. Her father was a college professor but wanted to be in the newspaper business and eventually got a job with the Associated Press and was posted to Mexico.
Mary Carter Carson was born in Chicago in 1905. Her father was a college professor but wanted to be in the newspaper business and eventually got a job with the Associated Press and was posted to Mexico.
Barnard College.
Mary lived in Mexico for 11 years. She got into Barnard College after only 3 years of high school. He was 6 years older than she was and working as a newspaper reporter.
Bass, then known as Mary Cookman (At the time she was the wife of New York Evening Post executive editor Joseph Cookman), joined the Ladies" Home Journal in 1936 as an editorial assistant but soon thereafter was named executive editor by the editors Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould.
(Joseph Cookman died in 1944, Mary Cookman married New York lawyer Basil Bass in 1945, and she thereafter was known professionally as Mary Bass)
Bass was responsible for day-to-day operations of the magazine while the Goulds engaged in longer range creative strategy and planning. Bass oversaw the creation of one of the most popular features of the Journal called How America Lives.
This series of articles was supposed to run for one year. lieutenant ran for 20. With the Goulds, she also oversaw the launch in 1953 of "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" by journalist Dorothy Cameron Disney, who continued to research and write the column for 30 years.
The Goulds retired in 1962, and Bass left the Ladies" Home Journal the following year.
Subsequently, she wrote a column for Family Circle called s at Home. She also published a book by the same name. Additionally, she worked at Seventeen.
A native of Chicago, Bass was the daughter of James South. Carson, who later was Chairman of the Colonial Trust Company of New New York
She graduated from Barnard College. Mary Bass Newlin died August 26, 1996, at her home in Amagansett, New York
8/28 Marries Joseph Cookman, an editor
1936 Joins Ladies" Home Journal (LHJ)
5/41 Moves to 570 Park Avenue, New York City
8/44 Husband Joseph Cookman dies of heart attack
1945 War correspondent for LHJ
12/45 Marries Basil Bass, a lawyer
10/46 Son is born.
Moves to 850 Park Avenue, New York City
11/56 Husband Basil Bass dies
8/60 Father James South. Carson dies
5/64 Marries George R. Gibson an advertising executive
6/69 Husband George R. Gibson drowns
1976 Marries A. Chauncey Newlin, a lawyer and philanthropist
1983 Husband A. Chauncey Newlin dies
8/96 Mary Cookman Bass Newlin dies.
She was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, the Women"s National Press Club, and the Overseas Press Club.