“Pick of Puncn" edited by the editor, William Davis, is for gentle chucklers, not belly laughers. Ken Pyne’s cartoon, reproduced above, is in the tradition of jokes with a minimum of explanation. “Punch” cartoonists seem to prefer to laugh more at their countrymen’s foibles than those of foreigners. The stories are better than the jokes. Harry Secombe scoffs at fears of a Depression—he has seen the fuschia and it works. E. S. Turner suggests more biographies of Mrs Thatcher, by Antonia Fraser, Margaret Powell, Harold Macmillan, and others. And Alan Coren takes the palm (oil) with his report on the Scottish Klondike, with Hewison’s aid. “Pick of Punch” comes from the Hutchinson Publishing Group, and costs $10.55.

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34031, 20 December 1975, Page 10

“Pick of Puncn" edited by the editor, William Davis, is for gentle chucklers, not belly laughers. Ken Pyne’s cartoon, reproduced above, is in the tradition of jokes with a minimum of explanation. “Punch” cartoonists seem to prefer to laugh more at their countrymen’s foibles than those of foreigners. The stories are better than the jokes. Harry Secombe scoffs at fears of a Depression—he has seen the fuschia and it works. E. S. Turner suggests more biographies of Mrs Thatcher, by Antonia Fraser, Margaret Powell, Harold Macmillan, and others. And Alan Coren takes the palm (oil) with his report on the Scottish Klondike, with Hewison’s aid. “Pick of Punch” comes from the Hutchinson Publishing Group, and costs $10.55.