Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph edited for publication. Agness ""Aggie"" Underwood (December 17, 1902 - July 3, 1984) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. She worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Record from 1928 to 1935, and for the Herald-Express from 1935 to 1968. In 1947, Underwood became the first woman in the U.S. to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily, the Herald-Express. Photograph caption dated March 17, 1967 reads, ""Blarney and laughter at St. Patrick's Day Luncheon. From left, Brian Sullivan, Agness Underwood, asst. managing editor of Herald Examiner; Hon. James Kirwan, consul general Ireland, and John O'Keefe.""
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