Stranger than truth [antikvár]

PART ITHE WILSON STORY by John Miles Ansell"Buried truth is ever in conflict with its dark surroundings. In its restless movement toward the light, it causcs ferment and revolution in the social environment, and neuroticism and disease in the individual."MY LIFE IS TRUTH Noble BarclaylAPTAIN Riordan told me the Wilson story in September. We were sitting behind a bottle of Canadian rye in a Third 'Avenue bar. He drank and I paid. I considered this a good investment because Riordan's stories were always better when he was mellow.I had recently become editor oi Truth and Crime, and was still new enough to believe I could improve the magazine. Truth and Crime was just another of the fact detective magazines, filled with hashed-over newspaper stuff and old police-blotter cases, served up with sensational titles and pious crime-does-not-pay endings. The Wilson story had no ending, so I decided to use it as an Unsolved Mystery of the Month.Instead of assigning it to a staff writer, 1 handled it myself. Although I had to use the Truth and Crime formula, I felt that I had written it so that an intelligent reader might find something more in it than the conventional mystery. I saw it as a bit of Americana, a comment on a curious phase of our national culture.On Thursday morning, November 22nd, 1945, I was sitting in my private office in the Editorial Department of Barclay-Truth Publications. It was my first private office and I w^s still new