In 1910, when the New York Sun's tall, handsome reporter Agnes Elizabeth Ernst married wealthy Financier Eugene Meyer, she thought she had given up newspapering. She was wrong.
Junoesquely energetic, Mrs. Meyer, as a housewife and mother of five in New York's Westchester County, found time for multitudinous activities. For 20 years she was Westchester's recreation director.
In 1933 Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA...
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