The daughter of a Democratic congressman and then senator from Idaho, Mrs. Reynolds came of age in Washington in the 1930s and ’40s, a time when most women could scarcely imagine pursuing professional lives like the one she eventually achieved.
Her career began in the 1950s on a dare. Then the mother of several young sons, she accepted a challenge from an acquaintance to try out for an on-air job at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, according to a profile published in Washingtonian magazine in 2007. The job was hers.
