Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Rita Hayworth was to the American G.I., a lissome lass named Jane was to the British Tommy-and more. Jane was the comely blonde heroine of a comic strip in Britain's giant Daily Mirror (circ. 4,593,263). She somehow managed to lose her clothing at least once a week, and she was so popular that the morale of the R.A.F. was said to rise and fall with her skirts. Minor victories from the Mediterranean to Malaya were attributed to the fact that Jane was unblushingly bare on a particular morning. After the war Jane continued...
...October 1959, when the Mirror underwent a thorough revamping and made a brassy new pitch to British youth, Chairman Cecil Harmsworth King decided to pension Jane off. "You can't go on being a bright young thing forever," said King, although Jane had made a good start at doing just that. First unveiled-or rather, undraped-on the Mirror's pages in December 1932, at the age of 21, she vanished 27 years later at the same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip...
Jane's successor was Patti, an 18-yearold supposed to be a sample of Britain's youth. But Patti, less prone than Jane to losing all but her lingerie, never caught Britain's fancy, and the Mirror sent her packing five months ago. In her place last week appeared "Daughter of Jane," an ectoplasmic 16-year-old who has clearly inherited her mother's inability to keep buttoned up. "Her fundamental attributes," said one Mirror man demurely, "are always covered by a towel." Occasionally the towel is about the size of an un-Sanforized dishcloth. Britons...
British sportswriters fumed in disbelieving rage. "The show put on by our team." wrote one in the London Daily Mirror, "was lamentable, inexplicable, and utterly unexpected." Said the Daily Telegraph: "Had their [the Americans'] exploits been recorded in a school adventure story, it would have been held to be improbable." Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss...
Europeans are awed by Honda's performance. "It's time British firms copied Japanese know-how," grumped London's Daily Mirror. One British manufacturer took a Honda bike apart, marveled: "It's made like a watch. And it isn't a copy of anything." Basking in such reluctant foreign tributes, Honda in 1960 produced 750,000 machines-20% of total world output-and made pre-tax profits of $14.2 million on sales of $136.5 million. This year's racing successes have obliged Honda to increase production to 85,000 machines a month, boosted...