BY JIM GIFFORD
In 1944, Margaret V. Paull completed her course work at the Ontario College of Art, graduating with honours in illustration, lettering, costume, and anatomy. She joined the Lord & Thomas advertising firm, and seemed set for a career in that burgeoning field. But Franklin Carmichael, the youngest member of the original Group of Seven, who had mentored Paull at school, recommended her for a position as a cover designer at William Collins, Sons in downtown Toronto, where Paull would embark on a long and influential career in Canadian publishing.