Used in the Exhibit: The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City. Agness 'Aggie' May 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. Aggie Underwood stands in the midst of the newsroom holding an oversized baseball bat. The bat was a gift from her colleagues to commemorate her tenth anniversary as city editor of the Herald; it was inscribed, 'To Aggie, Keep Swinging.'
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Underwood, Agness,--1902-1984 Los Angeles Evening Herald Express (Firm) Los Angeles Evening Herald Express (Firm)--Employees Celebrations--California--Los Angeles Journalists--United States Baseball bats--California--Los Angeles Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles Interiors--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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