Laura Bow Dorian is a Pulitzer Prize[1] winning octogenarian[2] writer. Sometime in 1993, she gave a lecture on Investigative Reporting techniques at Tulane University.
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The reference is an homage to Laura Bow, a character from Laura Bow murder mystery series, who originally went to Tulane[3].
A picture of Old Maid Laura appears in Hoyle 4, and is included here.