Happy birthday, Ida

Today is the birthday of fellow Allegheny alumnus and muckraker extraordinaire, Ida Tarbell, class of 1880. If you listened to the Writer's Almanac this morning, you heard from Garrison that today is Ida's birthday, that her superb journalism exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil Company, that her accomplishment was the first instance an American corporation was brought down by a journalist. Mr. Keillor, though, failed to mention the most important fact of her life--that she went to Allegheny College, of course--so I felt it important to enlighten you. Happy birthday, Ida.