The Don and the Mastodons
HERE Woodcock. meets Mills is no place for a Sugar Ray Robinson, and only once or twice in the second Books Brains Trust recording was Dr. J. C. Beaglehole’s voice heard in this inconclusive duel between the Rt. Hon. Walter Nash and Sir Stanley Unwin.
_- But without his participation the session would have been one metaphor (almost the only metaphor) the poorer, and it is -possible that listeners will remember his "contest of mastodons" long after they have forgotten both Mr, Nash’s and Sir Stanley’s conflicting import figures. It was a memorable discussion, controversy relatively free from acrimony, and unmarred by the poor reception (I use the word in its technical sense) that was noticeable in the first broadcast of the Books Brains Trust. Strangely enough, Sir Stanley refrained from quoting Milton to his purpose, but there was a distinct flavour of Harry Tate in his more spirited observations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 10
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154The Don and the Mastodons New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 10
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