SUPERBALL IS FOR REAL

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 14

SUPERBALL IS FOR REAL

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WHIM WHAMI

The superball craze has reached the office of the Prime Minister, Mr Holyoake. Bouncing one of the balls on his desk in Parliament Buildings yesterday. Mr Holyoake said he had been given it last week by the American ambassador, Mr H B Powell. The American-made balls are the bounciest yet made. —News item Oh, what a lovely bouncing Ball, The bounciest Bouncer of them All! A Present for the bounciest Boy For being so GOOD, a Super Toy For Kiwi Keith, our own little Lamb, With Love from Jolly old Uncle Sam. Just watch him bounce It, high and low, From Floor to Ceiling, To and Fro, From Capitol Hill to Lambton Quay And back to Washington, D.C.! See how he’s picking up the Knack, Catching his Ball, bouncing It back! Our little Statesmen grow up fast This Play-way Method’s unsurpassed! Follow the Bounce THAT is the Rule In the International Infant School. If a Policy HAS to be announced, Don’t say a Word till the Ball has bounced: Somebody Else will make the Play, So wait for the Bounce to come your Way. It’s a Method proved in the Rugby Game Where Kiwi Statesmen do the Same, And whether the Ball is Oval or Round It’s the bounciest Boy who rules the Ground. Uncles Danie and Kobus and All Give out the Toys at the Kiddies* Ball, And mean old Uncle Verwoerd’s Part Is the Fairy-tale Dragon kind at Heart! Our little Keith has a beautiful Ball. Oval or Round, does It matter at All? East and West and African too, Watching the Bounce is What we’ll do. Our big Tom’s off again to the Dark. Continent on some Rugby Lark Sir, with or without our Keith’s Credentials, I’ll name our Tom, in the real Essentials, For the present or any OTHER Century,’ Our first Ambassador and Plenipotentiary'