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A Woman to Know: Aggie Underwood

A Woman to Know: Aggie Underwood

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Julia Carpenter
Aug 12, 2016
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After covering big-time trials for 15 years or more, I'm pretty sure I don't act like celluloid newspaperwomen. — Aggie

(image via Los Angeles Public Library)

Talk about starting from the bottom: when Aggie's husband told her their little household couldn't afford to buy her new stockings that year, the 24-year-old L.A. housewife went hunting for a part-t…

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