Pyjama Party—is it our John?

To make sure that his friends were in the right frame of mind and dressed suitably for the occasion, John Marchant had a get-together at his flat before leaving for the Pyjama Night" at "Skyline" last Saturday.

Although some of the Antarctic Expedition men were 10th to change into their night attire, they were finally persuaded and were rigged from neck-to-knee in scarves, woollen socks, dressing gowns and the necessary pyjamas.

—Social Cocktails column in "Sports Post" recently.

So that's what they Do..

"She tried to live forever. What (hey do in the civil service."

—"Free Lance" billboard. —Quoted in the Labour "Standard".

Brave New World

More than 2880 students have been liberated throughout the Ash-burton County this season by farmers who hatched them from eggs supplied by the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society."

—"Manawatu Evening Standard" 6/3/58.

Sky Pirates?

"Vampire jet crashes. Wide search follows armed hold-up."

—"Manawatu Times" billboard.

Victorian Morality

"Miss Victoria goes south ... to discuss the rising rate of delinquency in universities."

—"Salient" billboard (pre-tournament issue).

Devil's Advocate

"A bishop who publicly defended the Queen's right to go racing, Dr. Joseph Halsall, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, died last night, aged 56.

He also defended the Duke of Edinburgh against those who said that he should not play polo on Sundays, and upheld the freedom of the ordinary man to have a drink or a gamble."

—"Evening Post", 15/5/58.

Delirium Tremens

"Who knoweth that which happeneth to a brain after being subject to the tortures of the Law of the Romans?—Written in near delirium 3/5/55."

—Carved on a desk in room A.I.

That's the Spirit

"Mr. Eric L. Roberts, a tall, soft-spoken Glaswegian, sat in his hotel room in Wellington last night and interpreted life in terms of Scotch whisky. From Tierra del Fuego to John o' Groats, he said, whisky is the only unifying influence the world over . . . Whisky was one commodity which was always ready when Britain went to war. She might be short of guns and ammunition and pencils . . . but were wars won on whisky? Scotland, he said proudly, is the only undefeated country in Europe."

(Perhaps the drastic cuts in the importing of whisky are really a subtle form of disarmament.—Ed.)

—"Evening Post," April 2.

Silly Students

—It is difficult to understand the mentality of the mentality of the university students who recently paraded in pyjamas for a performance of "The Pyjama Game" in Wellington. Surely they get sillier and sillier. Our teenage girls and boys are sometimes labelled delinquents or bodgies and widgies when they dress in Teddy-boy suits or matador pants, yet these students who are supposed to have brains to fit them for a university career, do these idiotic things. Amazing, isn't it.