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A Woman to Know: Missy Meloney

A Woman to Know: Missy Meloney

One never came away depressed from seeing "Missy" Meloney. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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One never came away depressed from seeing "Missy" Meloney. — Eleanor Roosevelt

(Missy on the left, wearing the tie; posing with the Curie women, image via Wikimedia Commons)

In the newspaper era of the 1920s and 1930s, one intrepid newspaperwoman was determined to outdo the swashbuckling newspapermen: Marie Mattingly Meloney, known professionally and soc…

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