... Of Many Things
JORDAN has had three Prime ° Ministers in a week. Who said French influence in the Middle East was dying out?
rp.A.B. offices, it was reported, were packed with betters during the wet Easter holidays. And we thought our betters didn’t gamble.
JJIL company spokesmen are, probably, preparing a statement protesting against the heading used on a cable message giving details of a London teddy boy’s request to a barber “Just to change the oil.” The heading read “Every 1000 miles.” The oil companies’ disagree with this. It should have read, they say “Every 500 miles.”
'THREE members of a Latvian family at a Canterbury country centre were celebrating the arrival of their naturalisation papers recently when in walked the father of the family, who had not bothered about naturalisation because, he said, he was too old. As he opened the door he was greeted by the new New Zealanders with: “There is that old foreigner again.”
FANCY Backing a horse by the name of Miss Step. Yet it was the favourite at Riverton on Tuesday and, living up to its name, crashed at the first fence.
'T’HE Ancient Order of Henpecked Husbands, says an absorbing cable message, is to meet in the upper fastnesses of the Upper Calder Valley in Yorkshire. Must be a very big valley.
A TEAM of research men from Victoria University College working with special deepwater apparatus has captured many rare specimens of marine life. But if you live in Wellington you do not have to go down 600 fathoms—or even go out to sea—to find queer fish.
r pwo young men danced rock ’n’ roll for 24 hours in lington thife week. That’s re®nC “Rock Around the Clock.” * r pHE Walrus does not wish ft x minimise the spectacle vided by the gymnasts at thOlympic Games, who, according tj a report on the sports page this week, thoroughly earned their medals; but he cannot “the tense struggle between J yr ; Titov (Russia) and T. Ono, of Japan, for supremacy on the hen. zontal bar” nor Ono ■s 'sirai iar ‘ struggle with Boris Chakhlin, J* the pommelled horse.” * AN earthquake in Wellington this week, said the Press? Association, “gave some person, a sensation similar to that caused by a heavy truck striking their building.” Wellington traffic must be worse than we thought it was if citizens of the capital can readily identify sensation, such as that.
QIR Wilfred Sim. discussing the ° ethics of the legal profession, suggested some discussions with newspapers on the propriety of publishing photographs of lawyer, in wig and gown. The answer may well be in the negative.
“TIfAYFLOWER II Sailore see Last of Britain," said ■ cable page heading this week. Come, come now, the Mayflower is said to be quite seaworthy. * YVHO says the garden-lover, do ’’ not take their gardening seriously The last advice to a correspondent in the Garden Notes this week was: “Follow the same ritual with your lettuce seed.’ * * “TIJAORI <9.20 p.m.), 8303 tons,” reads a line in the result, of the final day’s racing at Dlerslie. It goes without saying that this was the top-weight It might have done better on a wet
track. —The Walrus
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10
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