McCarroll also penned the "Advice for the Lovelorn, a nationally syndicated column, after she inherited it from Dorothy Dix.
McCarroll served as the woman's page editor for King Features Syndicate,[4] which distributed her column.
Her stories during this period included a feature article about a flight she took with pioneering aviator Ruth Rowland Nichols.
[6] McCarroll earned notoriety for penning the "Advice to the Lovelorn", a syndicated column.
After initial reluctance, she started writing the column for the Hearst newspaper chain at the request of Ward Greene.