Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1948, Page 4

Oddments

“That was a tremendous tip you gave the doorman.” “Did you see the splendid new hat he gave me?”—Politiken, Copenhagen. ❖ * $ Gangster Touch. —“Young French lady, very good education, speaking and writing fluent English seeks translation for authors or else.” — Advt. in Continental Daily Mail. ® =i= ® * » 23,000 miles for nothing.—Two Melbourne business girls have returned home after having travelled 23,000 miles around Australia in the past 18 months, mainly by hitch-hik-ing. Jean Carter and Marie Roberts, both in their early twenties, told reporters that they had walked only 25 of the 23,000 miles, and had ridden in more than 500 cars and trucks.

*s# * * , The first volume of Mr Churchill s war memoirs, “The Gathering Storm,” translated into Italian, is a best-seller in the free city of Trieste. One of the city’s largest bookshops has an impressive window display which is attracting attention from civilians and troops stationed in Trieste. The window, draped in white silk, contains simply a black homburg hat, a walking stick and a large cigar. The enterprising display agent responsible said he had suffered one disappointment. He had scoured Trieste, but failed to find a Churchillsize cigar,—Peterborough, in the Daily Telegraph. *

Mr George Bernard Shaw has advised his New York publishers to “drown your designer” for reproducing a design of his handwriting as the jacket for his forthcoming volume of memoirs. “There is nothing so ugly in print,” he wrote, “as a combination of type with ordinary handwriting. If I were a great artistcalligrapher like Michelangelo, whose handwriting was more beautiful than any fount of type, then a lithograph of my holograph would make any book an art treasure. As it is, it would make any book a disgusting curiosity, like binding it in the skm of some famous murdered/’ —Reuter Message.

—The Seeker