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Article: JILL JACKSON'S SALAD DAYS
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- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Feb 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Jill Jackson is a native who began her career in New Orleans. She was the first female sportscaster in America, a Hollywood gossip columnist in 1,700 weekly newspapers to this day and she boasts a namesake salad on the menu at Brennan's - you just can't get much more famous than that.
On New Orleans airwaves in the mid-20th century, this blonde with a pageboy hairdo was a top local media personality. Everybody who rode a bus or streetcar read her entertainment column in Rider's Digest, New Orleans Public Service, Inc.'s newsletter. She was a graduate of Isidore Newman School and Newcomb College and, when she permanently re-located to Hollywood some 40 years ago, she left a local legacy.
But ...