You Meet Such Interesting People

Released on by Bess Whitehead Scott
preview-18

  • You Meet Such Interesting People Book Detail

  • Author : Bess Whitehead Scott
  • Release Date : 2008-08-28
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 214
  • ISBN 13 : 9781603440752
  • File Size : 60,60 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

You Meet Such Interesting People by Bess Whitehead Scott PDF Summary

Book Description: "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 ninety-seven years of her life illustrates how determination, courage, hard work, and caring family and friends propelled her past enormous obstacles, including poverty and a hearing impairment. Born near Blanket, Texas, in 1890, she grew up on a small farm held together by her widowed mother and eight brothers and sisters. Scott graduated from Baylor University and taught school briefly before she persuaded the Post editors to give her a chance. Her success led to other jobs in the then-unnamed field of public relations. Then, even before the filming of the silent movie classic, Birth of a Nation, she went to the little film colony called Hollywood, to try her hand at writing "scenarios." Fame and fortune kept their distance from Bess Scott, but she did encounter many individuals whose fame, or infamy, whose friendship or failures made a deep impression on her. Clark Gable and Lyndon Johnson were her friends; her best friend, Lila Danforth, was always there during rough times when her marriage failed and she had to support her two small children by double moonlighting to supplement her meager earnings as a reporter. The opportunities and rights of women, the handicapped, and single, working mothers that are today taken for granted did not exist for Bess Whitehead Scott's mother or for her. Their talents and stamina in fighting rural and urban hardships exemplify a century of women's progress and highlight the roles played by the "interesting" people strung along the thread of their lives.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own You Meet Such Interesting People books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

You Meet Such Interesting People

You Meet Such Interesting People

File Size : 48,48 MB
Total View : 843 Views
DOWNLOAD

"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 newspape

People You Gotta Meet Before You Grow Up

People You Gotta Meet Before You Grow Up

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 5523 Views
DOWNLOAD

It doesn’t have to be a celebrity, it doesn’t have to be a big-name athlete: some of the most important and exciting people a kid can meet live right nearby

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 4541 Views
DOWNLOAD

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his ch