Mary Hamman (August 2, 1907 – November 18, 1984) was an American writer and editor.
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a daughter of Johns Hopkins clinician, Dr. Louis Hamman.
When Thompson went on to found the Smithsonian Magazine Hamman would often write the humor page inside the back cover.
[citation needed] Jack Coggins, a friend from the days of LIFE and later a neighbor, said: Sho Sho (Mrs Colin MacLeod), a childhood friend from Baltimore, who with her husband was a neighbor in Manhattan and Bucks County, remembered a trip returning from New Hampshire: Hamman liked nothing better than a good prank or joke, as did her father.
There are many stories similar to this one from her brother Louis Hamman, Jr., a surgeon: