COMING ROUND THE BEND

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 14

COMING ROUND THE BEND,

with

Denis

Glover

{ N ANY a man who can see a red light, two miles away doesn’t take a warning from lipstick in the dark. SHALL never forget my astonish- ~ ment, on reading the manuscript of a New Zealand novel, to find: "But ho, lads! There’s the whistle. Let’s back to work!" "| RADITION outlasts laughter. THEN I asked, in a kindly but perhaps patronising manner of an eighteen-year-old trainee, "What’s to prevent you becoming a colonel?" he replied very smartly, "All the other colonels, sir." CANNOT but rejoice to see so many central and wholly. admirable city business sites occupied by churches. HINA has always been able to wait a thousand years: the West fills in daily time sheets,

~OMETIMES I have expressed my impatience with grand opera, though prepared to admit I am full of ignorant prejudice. But what, after all, is opera but dialogue at the top of your voice? N ANY a conscientious employer tries hard to put himself in his workers’ shoes. But he never walks far in them. | AUGHTER outlives tradition, "| HE world is largely full of people with ordinary ideas, thank goodnéss, But they are never as interesting as the people with extraordinary ideas. HAT’S in the lung comes out on the tongue," said a cockney to me, in one of their rhyming proverbs. On inquiry he proved to be a non-smoker.