TWA Almanac feature: Maureen Dowd

New York Times columnist: 1952

It's the birthday of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist who said, "If there's one thing men fear, it's a woman who uses her critical faculties" — Maureen Dowd, born in Washington, D.C. (1952), the youngest child of an Irish-born cop. She majored in English at Catholic University and then worked as an editorial assistant at The Washingt…