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Private papers paint fuller picture of legendary reporter

  • By Terry Ganey
  • October 14, 2013
  • 0 Comment on Private papers paint fuller picture of legendary reporter

BY TERRY GANEY / In 1976, Aloysia Hamalainen went to work in the Washington bureau and eventually became its office manager extraordinaire. Her maiden name was Aloysia Pietsch (pronounced peach) then, and as how everyone in the bureau was addressed by last name, that’s how she was known even after she married.

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