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"Evening Post's" effusive sports scribbler Gabe David, noted for his irrelevant but never-at-a-loss quotations, has gaffed again. Eulogising recent American Ambassador Henning, David wrote: "Perhaps this great American can best be summed up in the words that William Hazlitt described the famous explorer Scott: 'His worst is better than any other person's best' ". Scott lived from 1868-1912; Hazlitt died in 1830. Turn again Gabe.

The Establishment has been trying to tame Salient for year it seems. It's success it sporadic. Heard what the old-boy network is up to now? David Harcourt is moving in to be the fourth product of Scots College to edit Salient since 1964. Funny how these democratic elections are decided in advance isn't it.

From our leading morning newspaper. "Another policeman said, 'What are we expected to think when a policeman handling a street incident tells a 13-year-old child to go and jump in the lake?" Birch them if the truth comes out.

They tell me a man was landed on the moon the other day. An American too by God. With a carefully prepared spontaneous quotable quote tossed off the cuff where it had been placed by the speech writer-in-residence. At least Dominion's laugh-a-minute Eric Heath featured him with a Stars and Stripes in his hand. More than he did for Sir Edmund Hilary who's clutching a Union Jack.