CARDS OR NO CARDS
Comedian Ribs Titled
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, December 21
The practice, popular among titled people in Britain, of announcing through the personal column of “The Times” that they will not be sending Christmas cards has come in for some ribbing recently.
The television comedy writer, Frank Muir, announced that instead of announcing in “The Times” that he would not be sending Christmas cards, he would be sending Christmas cards after all.
Another announcement appeared in a London evening newspaper saying that a Mr and Mrs Selwyn would not be sending Christmas cards to their friends as they will be touring Wapping (an unfashionable suburb of London). Mrs Selwyn explained to a reporter: “Yes, well you see, I keep reading announcements that Lord and Lady Snooks will not be sending cards because they were touring the Bahamas, so I thought this was the least I could do to keep up with high society.”
No Cure. —The licensee of a public house in Lambeth. London, who is displaying a “Don’t ask a man to drink and drive” road safety poster has added to it the warning: “There’s no cure for the mourning after.”—London, December 21.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 14
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196CARDS OR NO CARDS Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 14
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