Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

That was “Nellie Bly,” the “stunt reporting” woman who made her name in the late 1800s, mostly for traveling around the world in 72 days, beating the fictional account of Jules Vern's hero, Phileas Fogg, from the book that then was a world-wide best seller: “Around the World in 80 Days.” This East Coast reporter--real name, Elizabeth Cochrane—did so much more that was much more valuable: She went to Mexico and so exposed the corruption of President Diaz, she was banned from the cou