THE NEAREST EXIT
One night Artemus A V art I was toU\ to visit an important social function and have a story lor the next day's Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ho didn't care much for society anyho\\% so lie stopped on his Avay to mingle with .some friends, forgetting a!, about the. assignment until it was too late, to go. He. was persuaded by his friends to draw upon his imagination. The next days Plain Dealer had a glowing account of the affair on the first page. It was a scoop! Neither ol the other papers hail a word about it as far as Ward could discover until lie found a small item at the. bottom oi' a column which told him that the function had been postponed. Grabbing hat and coat. Ward left, the office. .1 ii he left Cleveland. Some weeks later lie drifted back and was walking down the street when he ran into Col. Cray, his boss. Cray began to berate him for running away without saying a word. "Why did you do it?" demanded Cray. "Well. Colonel, if you must know," 'said Wardv "I couldn't afford to bo associated with such an unreliable sheet."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 22, 9 November 1943, Page 6
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198THE NEAREST EXIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 22, 9 November 1943, Page 6
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