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🗓️ 20 October 2022
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The mysogenistic article, 'What Are Girls Good For' infuriated Elizabeth Cochrane. Her well-written response to the newspaper did more than get her point across. It started her career as Nellie Bly, award-winning investigative reporter.
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0:00.0 | Just a heads up, this episode contains references to sexual assault. |
0:04.4 | Please take care while listening. |
0:09.2 | You're listening to American Shadows, |
0:11.2 | a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm & Mild from Erin Manky. |
0:22.3 | Empicious, intelligent, and fearless, journalist Sandy Fox would do anything for a story, |
0:28.7 | and the tall handsome younger man smiling at her at the hotel bar |
0:32.9 | was about to become her biggest story. |
0:35.9 | Her wit and beauty attracted men wherever she went, |
0:38.8 | and younger men were a favorite. |
0:41.1 | And though she didn't care much for the floral tie her new admirer wore, |
0:45.7 | his movie star good looks and hair she later described as the color of scotch and water |
0:50.8 | intrigued her. |
0:52.4 | But still she politely declined his offer to dance. |
0:55.2 | It had been a trowing day. |
0:57.9 | Fox had spent the better part of it trying to get an interview with former Vice President |
1:01.9 | Spiro Agnew. |
1:02.8 | Unsuccessful, she just wanted to unwind with a drink or two. |
1:06.8 | In November of 1974, journalism was still mostly a man's job, |
1:12.5 | but she was determined to succeed. |
1:14.4 | The forced and in her mid-40s, English-born Fox had recently accepted a one month trial |
1:20.7 | with an American newspaper, they paid for all her expenses and flew her to Atlanta. |
1:26.0 | Alone in board, she left the bar and headed to the Atlanta Constitution office, |
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