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and Abigail Van Buren would do later, "Doris Blake" had single issue booklets available to female readers who provided a self-addressed stamped envelope, ranging from ''Getting and Keeping Boys Interested'' to ''What About Petting?'' to ''How to Be Happy Though Married''. She also served as a co-editor of the short-lived '' The Woman's Almanac''. Donnelly retired from the ''Daily News'' at the end of 1962 and died in

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, on November 15, 1964.

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* ''Current Biography'' 1941, pp. 85–86 * https://thevintagewomanmagazine.com/1940s-self-care/ 1887 births 1964 deaths American advice columnists American women columnists {{US-writer-stub