In 1940, Slott discovered female comic strip pioneer Dale Messick while working as an assistant to New York Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson.
[3] During her 56-year career she was recognized for her business and organizational skills while working under a number of Tribune managers and editors, and many of them had offered her better pay, if she agreed to leave and follow them to their new jobs.
[1] In 1921, it was reported that "a little newspaper woman, who is assistant manager of the Chicago Tribune Syndicate," (Slott) sent pictures of the Dempsy-Carpentier fight at Boyle's Thirty Acres, by telegraph.
The article described how '"Miss Slott telegraphed the picture taken just after the blow that sent Carpentier back to France, a beaten fighter."'
[1] In 1940, Patterson, at Slott's urging, agreed to experiment with female comic strip pioneer Dalia "Dale" Messick's Brenda Starr, by allowing it to be published in the supplementary issue of the Tribune.
Slott had removed the comic strip from the trash, and convinced Messick to change Starr's occupation from bandit to reporter, and to use the pen name Dale instead of Dalia, working around an era when women were not included in all professions.