- Was a $64,000 winner on the 1950s game show, The $64, 000 Question (1955) on the subject of "boxing." Later that same decade, she won $70,000 on The $64, 000 Challenge (1956), in the same category.
- Her husband Milton was an internist who specialized in diabetes treatment. It was when he was still a young resident physician making only $50 a month that Brothers decided she would commit herself to winning money on The $64, 000 Question (1955). Without knowing much about it at all, she very intentionally chose boxing as her area of expertise, and then used her remarkable memory to study it intensely for months.
- She had a daughter, Lisa (born 1953) with her husband, Milton.
- Became a licensed psychologist in 1958.
- Raised in Queens and Manhattan, she earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell, with a double major in home economics and psychology, followed by a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia. In the late 1940s and early '50s, she taught psychology at NYC's Hunter College.
- Provided a voice-over for the song, "Dr. Drew Boogie" on the radio program "Loveline". (2001)
- Raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York by her Jewish parents her both practiced law together.
- She influenced: Phil McGraw.
- Graduated from Far Rockaway High School (Queens, New York) in 1943.
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