Under the draft law, newspapers face a copy boy problem: Uncle Sam likes boys around that age, too. Experimenting, the ingenious New York Daily News hired a girl to chase copy. Emily Cheney, a Bryn Mawr girl, is pretty, smartly dressed, but quick of foot and wit. Bawling "Boy!" when Emily first arrived, a tough Irish rewrite man colored when he saw her. Could she please, he asked, get one of the boys to get some coffee and a sandwich for him. Emily said: "I can do it," and did.
Taunted at first, Emily is now popular. But there is still a...
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