Spearfield's Daughter (2013)
“He put on his homburg, got his golden handshake, gave no wishes at all to Cleo and went out of the newsroom and the Courier without a backward glance. Cleo watched him go and felt badly. She was ambitious but she had squeamish feet; she found it hard to keep her balance walking over others as she climbed the ladder. Suddenly she wished Jake Lintas had waited till he had reached the proper retiring age. But by then, of course, the Courier might have sunk and a ladder is of no use in a sea.
Two o...ther senior editors, both on the verge of retirement, both of them not wanting to blight their newspaper careers by finishing up working under a woman, also resigned. One of them was the Washington bureau chief.
Cleo sent for Joe Hamlyn and Carl Fishburg. She had waited a couple of days before she had moved into Jake Lintas’s office; she wanted his chair bottom cold before she sat on it. It was only a small tactic, but she hoped all those in the newsroom had taken note of it. She might have to resort to such small tactics for quite some time.MoreLess
Two o...ther senior editors, both on the verge of retirement, both of them not wanting to blight their newspaper careers by finishing up working under a woman, also resigned. One of them was the Washington bureau chief.
Cleo sent for Joe Hamlyn and Carl Fishburg. She had waited a couple of days before she had moved into Jake Lintas’s office; she wanted his chair bottom cold before she sat on it. It was only a small tactic, but she hoped all those in the newsroom had taken note of it. She might have to resort to such small tactics for quite some time.MoreLess
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