| Show y t 1 At LTER TER WINcHELL 9 ost ost People Are Bores days ys Woman Reporter T APE GAL STUFF Ir r E the most I of t the press was wu Anne Royal bUshed a sheet in Washing about bout a decade ago which i I anything about everybody tacos who felt the sUng sting of ot her uninhibited reporting attempted attempt attempt- ed to to bribe her into suppressing Items about themselves but Anita turn turned them down She was u I beaten and jailed jailed but but continued slugging Not even her readers were im Im- I. I mune When they failed to pay for their subscriptions she published published pub pub- their names When ben La Royal was wu warned she he was offending influential people the lady snapped I have as u my friends all aU the enemies of or my enemies I Inn News Service whiz Inez Ine Robb has hIlS a nifty retort to the bromide about about abolt reporters meeting Interesting people Inez Ine admits they do meet some but adds For every interesting person the reporter reporter reporter re re- re- re porter meets he finds himself afflicted afflicted af at- with 20 of ot the most tedious winded long bores God Cod ever made And he has hM to listen and like it it because what hes he's paid for Applause There have hae been very ry few lady I sports scrib scribes but tine one ne of the best I was wu Lorena Hickok who covered best football expertly And shed she'd sit ll around the city I room smoking a pipe I A eyed bright lass au strolled into I the office of ot a New York editor I and offered to give him an nn exclusive exclusive ex ex- story tory exposing inhuman J ex-J conditions in an insane asylum if it I he gave her a job The editor I accepted For a week she Me practiced feigning insanity and then managed to have herself herselt com com- Several days later the thee expose e was front That was the first time readers saw the byline of the fabulous Nellie Bly Ely When hen Nellie I. was 3 asked the se secret secret se- se cret of ot her success she deftly re replied re- re plied I have a clean mirror Inthe in inthe inthe the back of ot m my mind that makes it po possible for me to reflect news honestly Nixola Greeley Smith Horace Greeleys Greeley's granddaughter went to THE Mrs Astor's home for an in In- In After waiting and waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing a butler informed the that Mrs Mn Astor would be unable to see e her Then he handed Nixola 2 explaining Mrs Astor was paying her for the time she had spent waiting walting Nixola Smith Greeley exploded Tell Mrs Astor she bellowed that she not only forgets who 1 I Iam Iam am but she forgets who she is Give her back the two dollars and tell teU her that when John Jacob Astor was skinning rabbits my grandfather was WU one of or the foremost foremost fore fore- most citizens of New Ne York Famed West Vest Coast Cout editor Fremont Fremont Fre I mont Older had his own method of hiring femme scribes When they asked for a job he told them to sit down and write their biography in innot innot innot not more than a thousand words If Older liked what they turned out they were hired I Before the telephone and motor motorcar car were born lady s society lety reporters re reporters reporters re- re porters covered their beat on a bicycle They pedaled from party to party in search of news When they came across a juicy item at a social function the gels frequently hopped on their wheelers two-wheelers and raced back to their offices office in an effort to get their news into print first The races resulted in many spills and bruised torsos Oh yo you k k kid i d dl Twenty-three Twenty skidoo |
