About Mildred Ladner Thompson
Mildred Ladner Thompson was an American journalist, writer, and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters. She also worked as a reporter and columnist for the Associated Press and Tulsa World. Mildred Ladner Thompson (June 24, 1918 – June 25, 2013) was an American journalist, writer, and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters. In November 1947, Thompson flew to California, where she witnessed and covered the first, and only, flight of the Spruce Goose (Hughes H-4 Hercules), the prototype aircraft created by Howard Hughes. Thompson met her first husband, the late John Ladner, a U.S.
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