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...Cairo, Colombo and Singapore he flashed ready cash, picked up all tabs, made a host of new friends, and moved on to Sydney, Australia. There he registered (as Hall) in the leading hotel and began entertaining lavishly. "The pound-a-minute bloke," his new friends called him. To the more sympathetic of them, Norman occasionally showed a picture of his wife. "My darling Barbara," he would say, "she died ten months ago." Sydney's ladies gave their sympathies. One of them was only too happy to have her picture taken with Morton-Stewart at a fashionable nightclub. The picture...
...immigration inspector also went on board the Queen Mary. He reported the crew ready & willing to answer all questions. Said the captain about the inspector: "A splendid bloke . . . The men want to help him. It's to their advantage...
Perpetual Motion. In Brisbane, Australia, Edward Eugene Ebzery, jailed for the 588th time for drunkenness, philosophized: "A bloke's like a concertina-if he's not coming in he's coming...
...swear that everyone at Harvard has a cold," declared Edmond Tipping, Nieman Fellow from Melbourne, Australia. "There's so much coughing and sneezing at lectures you can hardly hear the bloke who's speaking. It must be the weather. In my country, the sun always shines...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...