Other than she was her famous son's mother and the bare fact that she invented the stuff, did you know anything about her remarkable story? I didn't. The NYT's

Other than she was her famous son's mother and the bare fact that she invented the stuff, did you know anything about her remarkable story? I didn't. The NYT's mission here is to correct what it sees as its own previous omissions. Whether many other outlets wrote obituaries at the time is hardly the issue.