“How did you become an airman?” “Oh, I just began at the bottom and worked up.” “Do you ever have to hurry to catch your morning train, Mr. Jones?” “Well, it’s fairly even, you know. Either I’m standing on the platform while the train pulls in, or 1 puff in while the train puffs in, or I puff in form.” A lecturer, suspecting that, publicity would lessen attendance at repeat performances, asked the reporter of a local paper not to publish his address. The reporter’s version was this: — “Mr. Smith delivered an excellent lecture in the church hall. He told some very good stories, but, unfortunately, they cannot be published.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1939, Page 12
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