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ID
b73
Title
Millenium Also Ran
Genre
Story
Page Count
15
Word Count
3150
Publisher
Listener
Publication Year
1934
Topics
Youth, Northamptonshire, Journalism

Reflecting Bates's months working for the Northamptonshire Chronicle, this tale depicts a young reporter, whose most important duty is to post horse-race results, attempting but failing to address social evils.

In The Listener (January 10, 1934), The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories (1934),Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947).