1. The author identified about a dozen articles by Pickett with an AP dateline in the Ancestry.com database. She worked for theWashington Starnewspaper. See Lee Lamar Robinson,Kentucky in Washington: A History in Brief of Participation of Kentucky through Kentuckians, in Affairs at Washington, 1792–1928 (Louisville, Ky.: Standard Printing Co., 1928), 82.
2. Kent Cooper,Kent Cooper and the Associated Press: An Autobiography(New York: Random House, 1959), 110, 118.
3. Ishbel Ross,Ladies of the Press(New York: Arno Press, 1974), 2. Two women, Ruth Cowan and Katherine Bybee, who also reported for AP, were excluded because they worked at the Chicago and San Francisco bureaus.