I was taken in - for a long time 90’s and early 2000’s! - by her claim of “being the valedictorian at Wellesley “. That leads to being “smartest woman” you know, right?
No, she was “valedictorian speaker” ... NOT “valedictorian “ as “top student in her class”
Good recall.
I believe that detail, too, might have been in the long account I’d read by that TAS historian, ten or so years back.