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Houston Post, Houston, Harris Co., Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1977 Helyn Hill White is associate publisher of Saturday Review. In charge of advertising for the Review, she's been associated with editor Norman Cousins for 25 yrs. She got there by way of the University of Texas; the home and food pages of the The Houston Post and KPRC; the San Francisco Chronicle and United Nations World magazine. Along the way she became the first woman to sell advertising for a national newspaper, the Oakland, Calif., Tribune, and the first woman to sell magazine advertising in New York. She's always had the hard-core kind of accounts, the oil companies, the utilities, the automobile people. Among the other pleasures in her life (thoroughbred racing and the stock market), she was president twice of the Texas Club in NY and active with Texas Exes, an organization of ex-UT students in NY.
The Mexia Daily News, Friday, March 3, 1978, Mexia, Texas, page 2 Funeral services for Mrs. Helyn Hill White, 66, who lived at New York City, will be conducted Saturday at 1 in Gipson Funeral Chapel at Lufkin. Graveside rites will be held at Mexia Cemetery that afternoon at 4 o'clock with the Rev. Ed Spivey, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Local arrangements are under direction of Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home. Mrs. White, born in Leon County on Feb. 5, 1912, died at her residence. She was a retired advertising executive and former Vice-president of Saturday Review in New York City. The Leon County native attended the University of Texas and entered the advertising field under the late Kern Tipps, noted sports caster of Southwest Conference football games. Mrs. White had been employed by newspapers in Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. She was past president of the New York City Texas-Exes Club. Mrs. White was the daughter of the late Arthur Ray Hill and Mary Rankin Hill. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. C. J. (Ethel) McElroy of Lufkin; and a number of nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Curry Jo Boesch of Lufkin.
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