by NRB | 23 Sep 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve always disliked meetings. At school I was fidgety and resentful at assemblies and gatherings to commemorate notable events like the death of King George VI and the Battle of the Coral Sea (when did that particular anniversary slip off the school calendar – or has...
by NRB | 5 Dec 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I must have spent a fair bit of time in doctors’ and dentists’ waiting rooms because I can’t think where else I would have read the Reader’s Digest as often as I did. I had two favourite features – ‘Humour in Uniform’, which contained no doubt pathetically lame jokes,...
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