From a New York Times story by Glenn Rifkin and Benedict Carey headlined “Overlooked No More: Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, Creators of a Personality Test”:

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

In the pivotal early months of World War II, as Hitler’s armies tore through Europe, a part-time crime writer and mother of two in Swarthmore, Pa., came across a Reader’s Digest article with the headline, “Fitting the Worker to the Job.”