WHITE IN A NIGHT
Sir,-In The Listener of June 8 Radio Viewsreel, "Handy Things, Facts," I read the following: " ‘My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, as men’s have grown from sudden fears.’ Lord Byron wrote this, but do you believe that unyone’s hair can turn
RPPBPPPPEPEPPP PPP PLPLPLPP A white overnight? You do? Then listen to the voice of Science: ‘Physicians have never found an authenticated case.’" I am 70 years of age and when I was about eight years of age, and garroting was common in England, a woman friend stayed with us; her hair had turned white in a single night. At my mother’s request she told me the tale. When out walking in a lonely place one afternoon two men approached her,’and asked for money, then went behind her and seized her throat. She lost consciousness until after she was rescued. The following morning on looking in her mirror she found that her red hair all round her forehead and halfway across her head was snow white. . I have never listened to the "Voice of Science," or heard doubt cast on this fact until reading the paragraph mentioned in The Listener.
AMY
McKENZIE
(Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 5
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207WHITE IN A NIGHT New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 5
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