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Fighter
A MAN who told toe
^ Yanks where to go
when they got to Australia
has been picked as the man
Lo run the Victorian Rail-
ways' new, campaign tor
business.
Mr. R. C. Burgess is the
man He's 55. and he is now
called chief commercial
manager.
Fe joined the department
as a porfer in 1912. and
when he became a commer-
cial agent in 1932, he was
part of Sir Harold Clapp's
drive against road oper-
ators, so he knows the busi-
ness. During the war. he
was lent *n the U.S. Army
to direct its rail movements
throughout Australia.
Coincidence '
COINCIDENCE. Week
or so back the bio-
graphy of German Field
Marshal von Rundstedt
(Odhams Press) . reached
Melbourne, and the local
agents fixed this week as
the date for tocal release.
This week papers carried
announcements /' or" von
Rundstedt's death.
False Aid
Y°UNG fellow was tearing
along in his car in Mel-
bourne the other day when
a police patrol grabbed him
for speeding.
Patrolman looked into the
car, saw a stethoscope on
the seat, and asked: "Where
you going?"
Young fellow was going to
the Women's Hospital.
Police patrol cleared the
way, and gave him a mi ie
a-m.nute escort to the hos-
pital.
Nice thing for the police
to do, wasn't iL? But we
can't help wondering wheth-
er the patrolman knew that
the motorist was a medical
student, and that his ap-
pointment at the hospital
was with a nurse he was
taking to a dance.
Under Desk
fôURNS, PHILP, & co.
received a tetter this
week from " a Gippsland
schoolboy who ashed foe
travel literature.
Postscript said: "Excuse
bad writing. Am writing
this under the denk during
the arithmetic period."
Souvenirs
ALTHOUGH the South
African cricketers have
gone, a surprising number
ol South African shilling
p:eces are still turning up in
change in the city.
Apparently the tourists
left them behind-Someone
has suggested it might have
been a good thing for our
tour of England il: they'd
left a couple of players be-
hind, too.
Seems Easy
rf"\NE of the trademarks of
^ the A.W.O.L. - Ameri-
can Way of Life to you -
is the U.S. capacity to be
celebrating . something , every
week.
They reached an .all-f^e
high in a full-page c^'or
advertisement in one ol' the
top American magazines
we've just seen, telling
neople how to make cold
tea for American National
"old rr'1"
Mistress: And what time
shall my husband and I
be round to dinner tomor-
row, Mrs. Pitts?
Departing Charlady:
Round to dinner? What
do you mean, ma'am
Mistress: Well; you've
got most of our liimnr
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