Great columnist wrote a piece saying, isnt it time we change some of these rules . I felt it was a bit of moving on up for women. What excuse did they give . Because i was a woman. They just didnt have women in the press box. They used to say that if a woman was on a ship, it was bad news for the ship. I have no idea, but they just banned them. There were a lot of places that banned women. In the press club, the women had to sit in the back when they were interviewing somebody or somebody was giving a major speech. The cosmos club, not until the 1980s did they admit women when the Discrimination Laws came in. They were more afraid of losing their Liquor License than they were interested in being egalitarian. It was a strange mad men era for many of us. Do you remember how old you were when you met jack kennedy . 24 or 25. What do you remember from that . Being scared. What were the circumstances . I was doing a column five days a week. The first time, they were on the tarmac waiting fo
Years were you there . I think it was 23 years. What is one of the highlights that comes to mind . One of the highlights has been that i was covering the mets in 1969 when they finally won. They wouldnt let me in the press box because i was a girl as they said in those days. I had already covered the indianapolis 500 where i had been the only woman in the country. I found this interesting because it was a magic place to work. Ben bradley hired me for style and it really transformed and revolutionized the paper business. It is not at all like it was then. You would do 2000word pieces and people would read them. That business of not being able to go into the press box to write and file my copy it struck home and read smith, the great columnist wrote aps saying, isnt it time we change some of these rules . I felt it was a bit of moving on up for women. What excuse did they give . Because i was a woman. They just didnt have women in the press box. They used to say that if a woman was on a
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