Was born on the kitchen table of her family's home in Price, Utah.
Suffered from Parkinson's disease and breast cancer. A supporter of the
Hemlock Society and the right to commit suicide, she ended her life.
Children: Daughter Anne and son Kim
Helped organize an office worker's union while working as a secretary at MGM.
While attending Piedmont High School, where she was the first female editor of the school newspaper, her beau was Robert McNamara, the future Secretary of Defense.
Graduated Stanford University 1937; managing editor of Stanford Daily. Front line World War II journalist for LIFE and TIME magazines.