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Date of Birth
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21-June-1926
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Place of Birth
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Alexandria
(Virginia, United States of America, Northern Virginia, Area Code 571, Area Code 703, Area codes 571 and 703)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Miss Mary Lou Werner, Ludie, Mary Lou W. Forbes
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Profession
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Journalist, Commentator
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Mary Lou "Ludie" Forbes was an American journalist and commentator. She spent six decades at the Washington Evening Star and The Washington Times, serving as the Times commentary editor until weeks before her death. As Mary Lou Werner she won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for her Evening Star coverage of the 1958 school integration crisis in Virginia in the aftermath of the 1954 Supreme Court of the United States decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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