Her son Marc Cheshire said the cause was heart disease. “We’ve had more bloody trouble with gossip columns,” Mr. Bradlee told Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times in 2005. Her mother, Sylvia (Cornett) Hall, who worked as her husband’s assistant, kept a gun in the house. They settled in Knoxville, and Maxine was hired as a police reporter at The Knoxville News-Sentinel. Nonetheless, they married a few months later, and when Mr. Cheshire was transferred to Washington, she followed him.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2021 17:37 UTC