Emily Kimbrough; Writer, Commentator

Emily Kimbrough, 90, an author, lecturer and former radio commentator. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1921, Miss Kimbrough worked as a copywriter at Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago before joining the Ladies Home Journal as fashion editor. She was managing editor before she resigned to work as a free-lance writer and lecturer. Miss Kimbrough was the co-author, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, of “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay,” a reminiscence of her travels in Europe during the early 1920s. It was published in 1942 and made into a 1944 movie starring Diana Lynn and Gail Russell. Miss Kimbrough wrote a sequel, “We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood,” published in 1943. In 1952, she joined WCBS Radio, where she wrote her own 25-minute daily program. In New York on Saturday.