SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HAVE an old friend who tells me that-forgive the homely phrase-he "did his courting" in the British Museum. Neither he nor his wife can pass a broken-nosed statue without a sentimental sigh for the happy days gone by. They: tell me that their esteem ripened-into warm affection in the Pleistocene period, and that they held hands right through the Dynasty of Cheops. -A. A. Thomson, in a Strolling Commentary * * * HATRED is a hindrance to the truth-Laurence Housman, in an article on Dr. Goebbels’s reply to the King-Hall News-Letters, * * * ‘T HE only difference between me and a lunatic is that I am not mad.-Salvador Dali, surrealist. x * * (GERMAN submarines have launched attack after attack on our ships, even on Sundays. -Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. * x * ; ‘THE king thought the goldsmith had stolen some of the gold, but didn’t want to accuse him until he was sure of his gilt-From a boy’s essay on Archimedes and his investigations into the purity of the gold used in making Hiero’s Crown. * * * A WOMAN golfer friend of mine motoring to her course was slow in "getting away" when the amber light changed to green. The taxi driver behind: "Go on, miss, it won’t go any greener!’ -" Evening Standard." * * * SOME day I hope to go back in the winter-time. Then I shall see the Aurora over a world of white. Some of the people there are afraid of it; they say that if you whistle the.lights will surround you and you'll never be seen again. Others — and I rather like to think they know best — say that it’s "the spirits of the dead at play." — Audrey S. Monro, in an article on the workers of Newfoundland. x * * PEOPLE say to me, " But whoever goes to all these lectures in America?" Three years ago I could not have answered this question; but now, having done three tours across the United States, I can reply, " Mostly women." — V. C. Buckley, describing an American lecture trip. % Ed BS Now: supposing that somebody stood me a holiday with unlimited money to spend, what would I do? Well, I’ve always liked brass bands, and I’ve always liked four-poster beds; and I think it would be grand if I went for a tour of these islands (British Isles) in a four-poster bed on wheels, preceded by a brass band playing seductive airs.-John R. Allan, in a story, " Money To Burn,"