COMING ROUND THE BEND

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 15

COMING ROUND THE BEND

with

Denis

Glover

AS a non-racegoer I was always intrigued by the radio announcer referring to what I thought was "the wind machine." I understand the totalisator to be a wonderful and fearful piece of machinery. Why should not a mysterious and Erewhonian wind machine be part of it? But they tell me I have heard the word incorrectly. O much fuss is made of professional standing. Isn’t it better to be a distinguished amateur? HERE was an interpreter who was an ‘" Jrishman, and whose claim to his compatriots was that he was sabotaging every effort of the English by interpreting for them. "T{IVE minutes this side of death are more valuable to me than all eternity." The remark was made to a driver driving much too fast. : ] MAKE public one of my business "ambitions. It is to export penguins from the South Pole to the North, and

to import polar bears from the North Pole to the South. I make it public because I can’t see any way of making money out of the idea. [JELICATESSEN is a sad substitute for a happily cooked meal. ow men lie when confronted with the truth. PERSISTENT questioners never seem to realise that there is so much of life one can’t share with anybody. Y definition of a great lady is one who has never given the matter a thought. EOPLE feed on other’s tragedies, little realising how soon they may be eating their own meals. HE had a sharp tongue. rather blunted "= by toa much -use, A