| Talking to Mr Terkel, the copyboy or the short-order clerk or the welfare mother felt, at last, like somebody. |
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| In early 1997, I applied to sit an exam to become a copyboy, a now extinct species of dogsbodies who once did everything journos couldn't be bothered doing. |
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| The stronger episodes in this memoir, such as an endearing series of failures while working as a Times copyboy, take place away from Dickens's hazy influence. |
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| I wanted to be a reporter, even though the best newspapers — the Times, the Herald Tribune — had only copyboy positions available to would-be journalists. |
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| Coming home to Manhasset after graduation, he sold kitchenware before landing a job as a copyboy at The New York Times. |
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| The current political fixation on fat is as distinctly un-American as Alger Hiss' side job as a Kremlin copyboy. |
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| He started his career in 1953 as a copyboy on the now defunct Evening News in Glasgow. |
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| So Lipsyte answered an ad to be a copyboy at The New York Times. |
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| He worked as a copyboy at the New York Times in New York before moving to Worcester in 1962 to join the staff of the Worcester Telegram. |
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| After a stint as a copyboy for The Washington Post, he joined Acme Newspictures and photographed the fighting in the Korean War. |
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| Talese began his career while in high school in the 1940s as a reporter for the Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger in New Jersey and, after graduating from college, was hired as a copyboy by The New York Times. |
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| Briggs outlines his progress from copyboy to head of a nationally renowned news agency with a practised deftness aided by headlines and hair-raising tales aplenty. |
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| That same year he took a job as a copyboy at The New Yorker. |
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