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Donald S. Marshall, anthropology, Auckland University College, Auckland, New Zealand...
After 49 years of political cartooning, Britain's famed David Low wanted a "try at new things and a change of air." The "new thing" turned out to be a weekly cartoon strip, which made its first appearance this week in Auckland's New Zealand Herald and other papers around the world, begins next week in Low's home paper, the London Daily Herald. The strip's title: World Citizen...
...Horry called on his in-laws, said that he had just returned from England, and told them sorrowfully that Mary Eileen had died in the Atlantic torpedoing of the Empress of India. What Horry did not know was that Mary Eileen's parents knew he had never left Auckland. One of the letters which he had arranged to have posted back from Australia had been opened by the New Zealand wartime censor of outgoing mail, who thus accidentally gave police a vital clue. Confronted by the cops, Horry had a new story: Mary Eileen had paid him to marry...
...loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege. But the quality that earned Jimmy his real fame in the South Pacific was his voice...
...parliamentary majority had declined. As 1949's campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in U.S. limousines while ordinary folks couldn't get cars? An Auckland newspaperman called it "the revolt of the guinea pigs...