| Coming home to Manhasset after graduation, he sold kitchenware before landing a job as a copyboy at The New York Times. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Talking to Mr Terkel, the copyboy or the short-order clerk or the welfare mother felt, at last, like somebody. |
| The current political fixation on fat is as distinctly un-American as Alger Hiss' side job as a Kremlin copyboy. |
