Overlooked? The fact that Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper has been a staple of trivia for ever. In part because of her famous son.
The story starts from a biased almost sexism-baiting opening line "obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men". Perhaps the New York Times didn't write an obituary, but the rest of the world knew who she was. This is aside from the fact that there are certainly white men who they probably overlooked as well.
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.
The story starts from a biased almost sexism-baiting opening line "obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men". Perhaps the New York Times didn't write an obituary, but the rest of the world knew who she was. This is aside from the fact that there are certainly white men who they probably overlooked as well.