An extract from the book
WHEN I stared my career back in 1967, I worked as what was commonly called a “copy boy”.
For the uninitiated, copy boys in those days were nothing more than gofers – junior workers whose duties involved, among other menial tasks, taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper floor to another.
At the shout of “copy”, you needed to rush like hell to remove carbon copies of stories straight from the typewriter of a senior reporter on
