THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
124 RIGHT-AND LEFT-HANDEDNESS signed pen and ink 2 3⁄4 x 5 3⁄4 inches Illustrated: Punch, 23 September 1953, page 363 Right-and Left-Handedness ‘A recent television programme on right and left-handedness asked viewers to find out which hand they used to carry a brimming glass, to wind wool, and so on. A good opportunity was missed for discovering the viewers’ choice of hand for switching off.’
125 A RANK IMPOSITION pen and ink 2 x 3 1⁄4 inches Illustrated: Punch, 31 March 1954, page 393
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A Rank Imposition ‘Popular sympathy has been aroused, and rightly, for the fireman who refused to clean an officer’s personal equipment, and was punished with an official caution and temporary suspension on half-pay. A man does not join the fire service to clean the personal equipment of officers, but to polish the engines and hoses, discharge the statutory numbers of wet and dry drills, release children whose heads are trapped in railings, detect escapes of gas, pump out flooded basements, raise jammed lifts with hand-winding gear, participate in the Lord Mayor’s show and, if genuinely pushed by events, extinguish fires.’
126 FORWARD WITH THE CRUSADERS pen and ink 1 3⁄4 x 3 1⁄4 inches Illustrated: Punch, 15 September 1954, page 330 Forward with the Crusaders ‘Behind our great newspapers there are lively and flexible minds. how else could junior editions of several great dailies have come so successfully into being? Many students of the British press are now hopeful of another stride forward – the publication of senior editions.’