volume xlii No3 Jun-Jul 1991.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

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PENGUIN
WIf
Kept on ice
P engUin'S absence from the last S&G was
not, as is being unkingly suggested, in response
to public clamour. Nor was it a deplorable dereliction
of duty once the first glimmber of spring
sunshine had lured him to the airfield alter a
winter's incarceration in his office slum.
It was due, said a hi-tech eleventh-hour billet
doux from the Ed on my fax machine, to the
last-minute arrival of ads "which we couldn't
refuse and which took away your space."
Yet again, dear reader, art gives way to Mammon.
But alter years of oppression from successive
CFls, club treasurers and syndicate
partners, it is no longer in Penguin's nature to
stand on affronted pride. .
I know when to give way gracefully. When it
comes to humility, I'm the greatest.
Glide to work? I work to
glide
An overweening ego and sense of sell-importance
usually prevents a revealing expose of
what precisely is in any ad-man's mind so I am at
a loss to express anything but mystified delight at
the full-page picture of Mike Thick's ASH-25
which appeared in all the "heavy" daily and Sunday
national papers recently. It was merely headed
"The New Vauxhall Carlton" in 48pt caps.
You could have fooled me.
There was no other copy but clarification, of a
sort, came on turning the page for the next righthander
carried a smaller picture of, indeed, a
motor car with copy and the heading, in matching
caps, "Why Not Glide To Work?"
The inference I draw from this is that Vauxhall's
designers forgot to include an engine when
they schemed the new car - which may be alarming
for the over-stressed executive faced with ..
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