That Man Gone
OURNALS all over the Commonwealth, or the English speaking parts of it, have already noted the passing of Tommy Handley. Statisticians have been busy working out the number of people he made laugh during his career, the number at any given time during the running of his half-hour show, and all the other odd slices of information
statisticlans love to cut off the living joint and serve up to us cold and lifeless. Handley was not a statistician’s joint; he was neither cold nor lifeless, The people in his show were all a little bit more alive because of his tremendous vitality, and I’m sure millions of listeners felt it surging out of their loudspeakers and let it run through them gladly, not knowing that he wasn’t leaving enough in himself for his own personal needs, Broadcasting for 24 years can’t have left him much, but let’s be grateful he was given those 24 years, and particularly the last nine. We should be grateful to any’ man who could for a while each week, put new life into the sick, invigorate the weary, and erase the thought of queues from the mind of the British housewife,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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199That Man Gone New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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