McCarthy Mows Them Down
>. @ a ACCORDING to the cables, Winston McCarthy's description of the match at Cardiff against Wales so affected listeners that husky former Internationals staggered from their radios in the extremity of* nervous: exhaustion long before the match was over. One refused point-blank to listen and another Rugby enthusiast fled to the comparative calm of the local Soccer match. We are inclined to doubt the truth of the story that a listener became so excited during the commentary that he choked on the orange he was eating, and died, Oranges are not yet so plentiful in Britain that one can afford to eat them with other than undivided attention, But New Zealand listeners who are familiar with the enthusiasm of McCarthy’s manner and who have been brought to the edge of their chairs by his infectious excitement will not find it difficult to
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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145McCarthy Mows Them Down New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 16
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