GETTING THE NEWS
CORONATION EVEREST, by James Morris; Faber & Faber, English price 16/-. ‘THis book, five years behind the event, may appear ill-timed. It was written, says the author, in 1955 "just for the fun of it," and he trusts that Alpinists, stylists, historians-and the Editor of The Times whose special correspondent he was at Everest-won’t take it too seriously. He hasn’t himself; therefore his view in retrospect of the 1953 Expedition not only achieves the charm that most earlier books lacked, but should also in most readers renew admiration for the achievement. How the news got to London at speed, as it did, memorably, on Coronation Eve, is here explained in full. The uncharitable might claim that Mr Morris’s code was not only designed to thwart The Times’s rivals but also to drive the unwary mad. One Indian is a case in point: his claim was that the British, facesaving as usual, had "turned the announcement of impending defeat into the
news of alleged victory."
R.A.
K.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 15
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168GETTING THE NEWS New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 15
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