ODD BODS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 17

ODD BODS

ULIUS CAESAR (according to Shakespeare, of Stratford) was struck down for. ambition though he thrice refused the crown; Joan of Arc (according to Shaw, of Ayot St. Lawrence) was handed across to the English and burnt after she had saved France; Benjamin Lomond (according to Alizon Atkinson, of Whangarei). now rts in a foreign jail after he had brought glory (in the shape -of six unicorns) to. his country, Nova Caledonia. : At school, Ben was nae guid at the pipes-"he couldna’ co-ordinate _ his breathin’ and his squeezin’-but he was richt guid at saying ‘Och!’" an accomplishment which gave him the right -to act as compére for Scottish Half-hours. Among his other accomplishments is the ability to breath down the nostrils so that minute grunts are produced which attract animals Close enough for him to breath dowtr their nostrils, thereby taming them as the aboriginal tribes of South America tame wild horses. More: details of Benjamin Lomond’s life and disappearante willbe told by Mrs. Atkinson in her talk on the series Imaginary Persons, to be _ broadcast, starting at 4YC on February 5, at 7.40 p.m. In the same series, the story of Horatio Fulsome and the radio show, Loser Takes All-the only man who thought Washington was the capital of ‘England, and’ they made sure of his ignorance by using a lie detector, won the freezer-is told by Dennis McEldowney. Hubert Cornerham Montmorency is . described by Pauline Quinlan-Stafford. Apparently Mr. Montmorency keeps dropping in to, yisit, parking his imma‘ulate Rolls Royce outside the door. Trevor Williams, a self-made expeft-on the subject, describes Igloo the Eskimo Comic; David Wentworth tells about a man from Mars; and Beatrice Ashton gives a biography of the first woman Prime Minister of New Zealand.