It was an autobiography published in 1947, detailing her experiences as a crime reporter in Los Angeles, covering a variety of stories and overcoming challenges as a woman in the field.
Agnes Underwood has written a crackling, breezy, no words minced account of her behind the news experiences as a top notch reporter and as city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express.
— Episode: 120 - Live at the Orpheum in Los Angeles
Episode: 120 - Live at the Orpheum in Los Angeles
It was an autobiography published in 1947, detailing her experiences as a crime reporter in Los Angeles, covering a variety of stories and overcoming challenges as a woman in the field.
Agnes Underwood has written a crackling, breezy, no words minced account of her behind the news experiences as a top notch reporter and as city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express.
In celebrity and sensation rich Los Angeles, one of the fastest, most competitive news centers of the world, she is on top of every story that breaks seven editions a day.
As a rough and tumble hardworking city side reporter, she's covered every important west coast murder and criminal trial in the past 21 years. Every major disaster from floods to fires to earthquakes and explosions.
Her stories have included strikes, traffic deaths, plane crashes, rapes, amnesia cases, suicides, divorce trials, shootings, robberies, Hollywood premieres... racetrack openings.
Hard, garish, rough though her work has been, she has loved it, her memoirs reveal how she convinced skeptics that a woman can run a city desk and raise a family by telephone... without exploding.
Episode: 120 - Live at the Orpheum in Los Angeles
It was an autobiography written by Agnes Underwood in 1947, chronicling her experiences as a crime reporter for several Los Angeles newspapers.
Agnes Underwood has written a crackling, breezy, no words minced account of her behind the news experiences as a top notch reporter and as city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express.
In celebrity and sensation rich Los Angeles, one of the fastest, most competitive news centers of the world, she is on top of every story that breaks seven editions a day.
As a rough and tumble hardworking city side reporter, she's covered every important west coast murder and criminal trial in the past 21 years. Every major disaster from floods to fires to earthquakes and explosions.
Now this seasoned reporter has checked back over her stories to tell how she lined up exclusives and persuaded tough ones to talk. How she got pictures when the subjects were belligerent, how she talked her way into hostile homes.
Hard, garish, rough though her work has been, she has loved it, her memoirs reveal how she convinced skeptics that a woman can run a city desk and raise a family by telephone.