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...Stout. Spare time is Andy's chief possession, and he employs it outrageously. "Ah, well, I can't idle away a luv'ly morning like this," he muses, lying abed with the sun high. But the only way he knows to make money is to gamble. "Flo!" he shouts. "Fetch me football pools coupon up." He is no help around the house. "I thought I asked yer to notice when the pan boiled over," says Flo. "I did," says her spouse. "It was a quarter past eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...interests are apparently confined to snooker, stout, brawling and uninterrupted leisure. Sex inflames him the wrong way. "Second time this week I've seen 'im kiss 'is missus," he observes sourly of a neighbor. "The man's a sex maniac." When Flo suggests a night out, Andy concurs: "If yer get 'ome before me, leave the lights on." But his long-suffering mate wouldn't change him for the world. "Don't think I 'aven't tried it, Rube," she says to a friend. "But bein' away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...that is handsome by British standards, hardly considers himself shortchanged. He has just renewed his Mirror contract for another five years, and he remains as fond of Andy as Andy is of himself. After all, it was Artist Smythe who put these words in the mouths of Andy and Flo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...bomber pilot in World War I who was shot down over the Western Front but managed to survive and fly again. He kept flying after the war, and for eight months was a barnstormer at county fairs. Sometimes when he stunted to impress the customers, his young wife Flo climbed out on the lower wing of his beat-up biplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heads Up | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A pocket biography of Broadway Producer Flo Ziegfeld. Repeat. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 20, 1962 | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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