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Youngest of ten children, five of whom died in China. Josephine Chen is one of her older sisters.

The only person in history (male or female) to have served as a substitute anchor for all three network nightly newscasts (NBC Nightly News (1970), CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1941) and ABC Evening News (1953)); as well as all three network morning newscasts (Today (1952), CBS This Morning (1987) and Good Morning America (1975)).

Met her future husband, Maury Povich, in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, DC (WTTG), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.

Son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted in 1995

Dated Warren Beatty.

She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson, after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit, after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.

Attended the University of Maryland, where she first majored in Biology and then switched to Journalism.

Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland

She received teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

She was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame for General Services.

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Daughter-in-law of Shirley Povich.

She was inducted into the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.