Cartoon strips
Sir, — My sincere thanks to “The Press” for those humorous cartoon strips tucked modestly away in the back pages. Our politicians make me laugh, but it is a hollow laugh and theirs is a wry brand of humour. Occasionally an anecdote in your “Reporter’s Diary” forces a smile, but how often at someone else’s expense. The moralising of some of your correspondents would be funny were it not for the fact that they sway so many willing followers. The personal columns can be scanned for something to smile at, though seldom without also producing a tear of sadness that in today’s society such loneliness and disillusionment still exists. Any other traces of humour printed at present tend to be so dry they are in great danger of dehydration. Thank goodness for those cartoons which make me chuckle spontaneously with no disturbing after-effect. — Yours, ROY WILSON. June 19, 1978.
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Press, 23 June 1978, Page 12
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