 Others among her earliest stories with the paper included items about holiday shopping on Fifth Avenue, a lost canary, and the Fifth Avenue Easter Parade.More serious work followed, including a 1955 series on the problems of the elderly.She was one of several reporters sent by the "Times" in 1956 to write about desegregation in the South following the Supreme Court's 1954 decision "Brown v. Board of Education", which was summarized in a special eight-page section published in March 1956 and made available to the public as a reprint.