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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 15, 6 October 1939, Page 4

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radio comedian received an abusive lettes from a listener. He retaliated by sending the listener a photograph of himself — with his tongue out. * * * UR office-boy, thinking perhaps of the rising price of our national beverage, pops in to ask if the "Beer Barrel Polka" is a kind of a "Tap" dance... * a * READER writes to say he’d like to be a radio : talker, but what should he start to talk on? ‘We suggest a soap-box. * * * NEW definition of Stonehenge: Woadhouse. * * * LISTENER moans: "Often when I listen in, I hear our lovely English language being butchered." Someone must have been dropping his aitchbones. * * * HE Western Brothers, says an English paper, enjoy the English summer — especially when it’s taining cads and dogs. % * % S$ ANDLEADERS’ Cars in Collision," says a newspaper. Come come, boys, isn’t that carrying ® Boomps-A-Daisy" a bit too far?" * x x ERMANS have been ordered to eat less bacon. So now it’s the Watch on the Rhind. * * * ‘ OMBINING "slump" and "boom," the London Stock Exchange furnishes the following parody of Lewis Carroll: "’Twas Hitlig, and the Stock Exchange was grimping in the sloom." * * * ‘LOGAN for motorists: Children should be seen and not hurt. * * * "THE small boy who said that an ohm was one. of those funny little men who sat on toadstools was probably as wise as most listeners. * * * 6¢ A MERICAN Bandleader Shoots Songwriter" we ~ read in a headline. So he wasn’t satisfied with just plugging his songs! * * * ss Aaa a wife goes through her husband’s pockets, she gets what any other explorer gets -- material for a lecture.