Word: fortunata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reports from these correspondents, along with those of David Wood in Boston and Mary Cronin in New York, went to Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the cover story, assisted by Reporter-Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Vanderschmidt. For Stoler, the story was the latest round in a long fight. Says he: "I got malaria from mosquitoes as an infantryman in Korea, and I have had termites as a homeowner in Tenafly...
Perhaps the name that caught the imagination of outside writers more than any other was that of Science Reporter-Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell, who for years claimed the longest name on the masthead. She extended her lead by five letters in 1966, when she married and became Fortunata Sydnor Vanderschmidt. In a typographic economy drive of 1969 - our staff, and our masthead, had grown larger - she agreed to cooperate and is now listed merely as F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt...