“Men are only grown-up boys,” says a woman novelist. The child who used to take the clock to pieces to see how it works, now does the same thing to his car to see why it doesn’t. A Brussels broadcast reminded us that Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone nearly 125 years ago. A stern critic writes to say how true it is that the evil that men do lives after them. “What is the good of expeditions into the stratosphere?” asks a correspondent. Well, it would be comforting to know if there are any signs of the high cost of living coming down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 8
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