St. John was born October 15, 1904 (Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index transcribed at Ancestry.com) and died August 13, 1955 (Find a Grave has the fourteenth which is incorrect; see Merchant of Words: The Life of Robert St. John (2014); The New York Times said it was the thirteenth.) At some point St. John married and moved to Darien, Connecticut. A 1932 city directory listed St. John as an advertising manager in New York City and married to Gertrude. A brief history of St. John Publications is at Wikipedia.
McDermott and St. John had an affair. In Alter Ego #77, May 2008, Ken Quattro profiled St. John and contacted several artists who knew McDermott. Quattro said “When asked, Lily Renee offered the intriguing evaluation: ‘Marion was an efficient editor [who] later became Archer’s girlfriend.’” In Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour (2012) Jim Amash interviewed Nadine King; below is an excerpt.
Jim Amash: You were an editor for a while as well as a secretary. Was Marion McDermott an editor before you?It’s not known when the affair started. Together McDermott and St. John made at least two trips to Bermuda. At Ancestry.com a passenger list recorded the arrival of McDermott and St. John at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport on October 1, 1950. Aboard Colonial Airlines’ Flight 101, they had departed Kindley Field, Bermuda. Recorded on the list was McDermott’s address, 26 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, New York, and her birthplace, California.
Nadine King: Mary McDermott was an editor while I was there. She and St. John started having an affair. They decided to elope somewhere in the South, but they changed their minds and came back.
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According to the 1940 census the McDermotts were Forest Hills residents at 212 Burns Street. McDermott was seventeen and her brother, William, was fourteen. Their father was a sales manager in the drug industry.
The 1950 census recorded McDermott living with her parents and brother at 14 Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens. McDermott was an editor and director of art at a publishing company.
According to the Social Security Death Index, McDermott passed away May 14, 1999. Her last residence was Miami, Florida. Her obituary appeared in the Miami Herald, May 16, 1999.
A resident of Coral Gables for over fifty years, Marion died May 14, 1999, at her home on Malaga Avenue. A member of Church of the Little Flower and First Congregational Church of Coral Gables. She was for many years as producer/director for Channel 4 television, WTVJ. Her many charitable works included 10 years as a Hospice volunteer and the editor of the Hospice newsletter. A reader for the blind worked with Missionary of Charity. A weaver of stories, a world traveler, she took great joy in being a practitioner as of Tai-Chi as taught by Stephen Chin. She leaves her brother and sister-in-law William and Ruth McDermott of Cape Coral, FL., her daughter-in-law Josette Gamohe of Paris, France, a niece, Nancy McDermott, nephews Bill and Thomas McDermott and her partner in life, Bill Mullaney. Memorial services to be held at The Church of the Little Flower, Tuesday, May 18 at 10:00 a.m.
According to the Florida Death Index (at Ancestry.com) McDermott’s mother passed away July 1968 in Dade County, Florida. Her father’s passing was in Los Angeles, California on March 26, 1990.
A photograph of McDermott is at Women in Comics Wiki.
A photograph of McDermott is at Women in Comics Wiki.
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