"It wasn't easy in those days for a woman to get her foot in the city room door. Bess made it because she understood one of the basic principles of the newspaper business--everyone has a story. You have only to discover it and tell it well.
"She will tell you in this book about meeting interesting people. You will learn that there are few more interesting than Bess Scott herself."--William P. Hobby
At the age of twenty-five, Bess Whitehead Scott became the first woman reporter for the city desk of the "Houston Post." The year was 1915.
The author's memoir of the first...