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...Examiner faces the prospect of chasing the fast-stepping Chronicle. "We shouldn't be fighting against the Chronicle," says Columnist Hall. "Sensationalism is not the answer. We don't have a boob audience, but we have lost the intellectuals. The other readers only want entertainment." So Much Swill. The Chronicle gives them just that in great gobs, and if the paper is distressingly short on news, Editor Newhall can point to the rising graphs on circulation and advertising charts by way of self-justification. "We kid around a lot," says he, "and that drives a lot of intellectuals...
...countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch was "frozen to death in her bedroom. A remarkable thing to happen to a British bird." Then there were the disgruntled mothers from Britain...
...French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson. Its ships were badly designed and badly built. Crews were made up largely of pressed men, recruited by a system of legalized kidnaping. They were fed swill unfit for swine, and discipline was inhumanly savage by today's standards. But long years of keeping the sea, often for 18 months without making port, made them magnificent seamen. Something else, which Pope finds hard to define, made them patriots. And Admiral...
Along with new hustle, a new diversity has entered Australian life. Staid Melbourne still languishes under the blue laws that turn it into "a Sunday necropolis," and in most of Australia strict drinking hours still produce a custom known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-which contributes mightily to an annual beer consumption of 23 gallons per man, woman and child. But it is now possible, in the big cities, to find a gas station open before 9 a.m. and a stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia...
...bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk before it was bottled. The furious Duce rained blows on the girls' heads, ordered their boss dismissed, and personally overturned every milk can (Vaselli finally collected what he could of the spilled milk and sold it as swill for pigs...