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Article: Adela Rogers St. John, 94, author and reporter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 11, 1988
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LOS ANGELES Adela Rogers St. Johns, the veteran reporter and
best-selling author whose colorful career took her among the leading
newsmakers of six decades, died Wednesday at age 94 in a rest home
near San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Mrs. St. Johns, called both "the World's Greatest Girl Reporter"
and "Mother Confessor of Hollywood," was the first woman to cover a
police beat and the first allowed into sports press boxes.
As "the World's Greatest Girl Reporter" for Hearst newspapers,
she covered the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial of Bruno Hauptmann,
the abdication of King Edward VIII, the assassination of Sen. Huey
Long, the long-count Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney boxing match and
Washington ...