NEW HORSES FOR OLD
cc HE practice of swapping horses in midstream has long been frowned upon by all smug, respectable and care. ful people. Those who have carried out that tricky evolution are usually: classed with the rolling stones which gather no moss, jacks of all trades who are. masters of none, and such like low and improvident fellows." That’s how Richard Beauchamp starts the first of a series of talks, Midstream Horses, in which five different speakers tell why at some stage of their original career they decided to "change horses" by. taking up some entirely different work. The talks will be broadcast from 3YA, starting on Wednesday, March 24, at 7.15 p.m. 5 Richard Beauchamp is quite impenitent about his change of horses, even though it was from a high-spirited, wellgroomed thoroughbred-the Navy-to a farmer’s nag. "For," he says, "now I have got used to her ways she suits me well enough." Gerald Cox, a former librarian who has lived among the bright lights of Paris and London, is another who has ended up in the country, if "ended"
is the word for a man with the interesting philosophy he discusses in the first part of his talk. He thinks the changeling isn’t always an opportunist — often he is a_ thinking man intent on prob-
ing some inner part of himself that has been neglected. In the third talk, Oliver Duff tells why he went to town and stayed there 40 years-blind, lazy, badly advised and lucky are some of the words he uses-and why he has escaped back to the country. Mr. Duff is followed by Irving Trent, a garage mechanic turned schoo! teacher, a "pressure cooker" product who has found that. teaching appeals to him as nothing else could; and the series ends with H. R. (Dick) Williams telling how his working life has gone the full circle, or almost, for his first job was on a sheep farm and he would like to end up on one. Just now he’s milking 40 to.50 cows after a big part of a working -life spent as office worker and salesman.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 7
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354NEW HORSES FOR OLD New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 7
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