Saved By the Truth
"HE want of news never troubled Basil Woon, the author of "Eyes West," whenever he had a newspaper job. If there was none, he made some up. "Basil" said Charley Blood, the news editor for the Kansas Times, "can you tell me how it is that, in the two months you’ve been on the staff more Chinese potentates, English lords and European notabilities ‘have. passed through Kansas City than in the 10 years before you came." " Well," said Woon, modestly, "it must be because I'm a good reporter . . . I find em." Once he edited the one and only paper in Key West in Cuba. Apart from local news, he depended on a bare-bone summary of world news telegraphed to him every night by a man on the mainland. When tis man got Grunk, which was often, and often for long, Woon’s imagination was his only source for news. There came a time when he drew on it for the startling announcement that Theodore Roosevelt's exploring expedition in the Brazilian jungle had been lost, and a rescue party sent out. He beat up this sensational fancy for three days. When his mainland friend recovered from his bout the first telegram he sent to Woon reported that grave concern was felt in New York over the Roosevelt expedition, which appeared to have "vanished in the wilderness." I can’t help feeling that truth behaves very badly by her humble and devoted servants when she rushes in to support an audacious liar like that!-(Book Review fom 3YA, Christchurch, January 7,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 5
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260Saved By the Truth New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 5
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