“……the City council’s ambulances travelled a total of 57,848 miles in transporting 477 patients (during the year ending June 30, 1969)”
Report in the Rhodesia Herald, Wednesday 14th January, 1970.
(Ambulances under normal circumstances do not proceed beyond the city limits on which basis each patient was transported 121.274 miles!!!)
John Lentell
18th January, 1970
“Maturity: among other things – not to hide one’s strength out of fear and, consequently, live below one’s best.”
(‘Markings‘ by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
17th January, 1970
I wonder if the South African ‘Verkramptes‘ have Rhodesian associates?
John Lentell
16th January, 1970
“A servant should never be noisy when on duty. He is not supposed to whistle or sing, talk loudly, or call to his fellow servants.” !!!
(From The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge, 1887 – 1963)
John Lentell
15th January, 1970
“PUFFER – one employed to raise prices at an auction sale by fictitious bidding.”
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
14th January, 1970
“PUFF – exaggerated praise, especially in a newspaper, given to a person, book, advertised article, etc……”
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
15th January, 1970
“On one occasion, my telephone at home started tinkling in an odd way. I took off the receiver, but heard nothing; so I started banging the cradle. A tired voice at the other end of the line said: “Please don’t keep banging, have patience. We’re switching you over to another recording machine. It’s a complicated system, you understand.”
(“Why I Left Russia’ by Anatoli Kuznetsov, 1929 – 1979)
John Lentell
9th January, 1970
“Remember that it pays to go to a reputable 9antique) dealer. There are probably more sharks in this trade than any other since the public is often ill-informed, gullible and easy to deceive.”
(Jennifer Lafitte in S.A. GARDEN & HOME)
John Lentell
10th January, 1970
“We are exceedingly ignorant of the reasons why we exist, confident only that individual life is a portion of some vaster system that struggles arduously onwards, towards ends that are dimly seen or wholly unknown to us, by means of the various affinities—the sentiments, the intelligences, the tastes, the appetites—of innumerable personalities who ceaselessly succeed one another on the stage of existence.”
(From Hereditary Genius published in 1869 by by Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
11th January, 1970
“There is a vast difference between legally snooping on a Mafia overlord and unauthorized surveillance of a political maverick whose views do not happen to please an administration in power.”
(‘The New Line on Wiretapping‘, Time magazine, 25th July 1969)
John Lentell
12 January, 1970
“It may be asked whether, in view of all the vast differences that separate White from Black, there is in reality any hope of their living together harmoniously in the same land. The answer is yes, but success will never be achieved by disguising the differences or by pretending that they are not there. The healthy approach is to create a society which acknowledges them.”
(From You are Wrong Father Huddleston’ by Alexander Steward)
John Lentell
8th January, 1970
Lentell Soup 