Struan 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

More documents

Recommendations

Info

My mother looks at me with amu sed toler anc e at breakfast time whenI grab The Sun and turn first to the comic strips. She never reads the comicsand I never tire of telling her what she's missing. I've reached the stagenow when the news items seem unimportant and tiresome. All the reallyinteresting things are occurring in the comics. How will Martha Wayneend her friendship with Roack, the novelist? Who will be the next admirer?Will Garth fall in love with the Lady Astr a? Will Judd Saxon be ableto uncover the latest attempt to trick his bos s? What is to become of poorDaisy Mae of Dogpatch now languishing in prison? What fresh tragedyhas befallen Juliet Jones?All these questions are more vital than the old stuff in the news columnabout the fall of the umteenth French Government, some new episode ofElizabeth Taylor, the latest tantrum at the Cannes Film F estival, or theCuban crisis.Educationally there is nothing to equal the strips in the newspapers(incidently there's no more affinity in the daily papers between the comicbooks and the strips tban there is between Micky Spillane and T. S. Eliot).Judd Saxon, for example, is much more helpful in understanding the intricaciesof the business world than the dull financial page of your newspaper,and, in addition, much more easy to follow. Buck Ryan ha s shown me howthe petrol racket is worked in England. Rip Kirby instructs me in up-todatededuction methods. Flash Gordon reveals to me all the implicationsof this Sputnik Age.If I want geographical knowledge I go to Garth and find myself inthe feudal kingdom of Festorra, in Central Europe. The recent strips of,_-.-.~_~,lulie t,.Jones .,have~ow how authors writ e ,.their memoirs and wll,t. ......literary agents are looking, for in manuscripts. This latter piece of informationrecently enabled me to market a story that had been rejected-"fifteen times. 0n Maggi Mellor's 'advice I injected some heavy doses ofsentiment and had an immediate acceptance and a request for more scriptsalong similar lines.-Page Thirty : STRUAN. 1962'
Lil Abner has shown me how the psychologists use the Rorschachtest to establish guilt in criminal cases. The world of Bluey and Curlyand Ben Bowyang gives me what the theatre managers call 'intimateglimpses' of such acti vities as shearing, fencing , bush carpentry and farmingactivities of all sorts. The Berrys, Mr. Melbourne and Blondie take meinto suburbia and reveal to me what a happy family life is like and how itis achieved. In all the strips doors are opened into oth er people's lives.An old Chinese proverb states that one picture is worth a thousandwords. In Satu rday's SUD ther e are two full pages of comic strips containingforty-two pictures. In the Herald on that day there is a full pageof strips consisting of twenty-nine pictures. Th e comic reader who takesboth papers read s seventy-one pictures which is equi valent (according to theChinese proverb) to 71,000 words. This is the size of the average novel.Thus the comic reader will read the equivalent of 313 novels in a year.Thi s mak es him an extremely well-read person. In twenty-five year s ofaddiction to comics I've read the equ ivalent of 7,825 novels with onethou sandth of the effort. It is merely a question of time before the economicsof this type of reading become obvious to everyone.Not the least of the benefits of a comic-strips education is the psychologicalinsight it gives. One learns that a pipe- smoking man is a kind man,that flashy blondes arc untrustworthy, that men who wear black hats arccrooks, and that smiling fat men with rings on their fingers are plausiblerogues. This type of character analysis can be of great practical value .I remember on one occasion meeting a new partner in a stock-broking firmwith which I had had many deal ings. He was the image of a bad characterI'd met in Judd Saxon. He advised me to sell all my holdings in ladies'underwear and to add to my holdings in pig-iron. I insisted that he dothe opposite. The next day pig-iron rose and ladies ' underwear fell, and Ilost £200 on the deal. My mother said it served me right for being sostupid. I told her that he had rigged the market against me, and I wouldhave lost no matter what I had done. My present broker is a man who isthe living image of Pop.Judd Saxon , I believe , is to become prescribed reading for UniversityCommerce students. Here indeed, is recognition from the highe st quarter.In affairs of the heart the comic strip is one's best guide. On myadvice two of my cousins married women who could be Juliet Jones or------:rvfaFfl,iaW ayne. R eeoless to say ootli marriages are iayllic.The heroes and heroines of the strips are all people of high moralcalibre, although some of them like Ben Bowyang, Presto and Bluey andCurley would blush if they read this opinion of themselves. Let's look atsome of them from this viewpoint.STRUAN, 1962Page Thirty.On:a
Page 2: IIThe Magazine of Frankston Teacher
Page 5 and 6: We look back on our two or three ye
Page 7 and 8: IIMo st of you may be satisfied atf
Page 10 and 11: Pat is also S.R.C. representativeon
Page 12 and 13: Staff ...Principal:MusicGeorge A. J
Page 14 and 15: Rod SimpsonAmbition:To grow a man
Page 17 and 18: Is this right? What if these machin
Page 19 and 20: Our fears that we would be decapita
Page 21 and 22: Personalities ...COL HOWARD: "I don
Page 23 and 24: work ed hard and generally with pro
Page 25 and 26: Teacher on Tour •..Left:e Snowmen
Page 27 and 28: cattle. Otherwise the land was empt
Page 29 and 30: Teacher on Stage ...II/!II• On st
Page 31: July ...11182027August •..Septemb
Page 35 and 36: and leave without arousing a breath
Page 37 and 38: Teacher in Creative Activit y . . .
Page 39 and 40: Th e boy found a party easily,and t
Page 49 and 50: l:961 'NVmI.1SllU!PP3SJOH •llu!Jl
Page 51 and 52: Softball Team ...Winning Team in In
Page 54 and 55: eacher in the Classroom ...Brenda P
Page 56 and 57: My Love Must Wait is a faithful ret
Page 58 and 59: EIIglish Jourlley • • •"Quick
Page 60 and 61: I am. I wear the livery of the gove
Page 62 and 63: The younger English women have me b
Page 64 and 65: T ABLE TENNISThis year th e table t
Page 66 and 67: HOCKEYThe Hockey team enjoyed many
Page 68 and 69: Wh at are the little magazines? Th
Page 70 and 71: T.C.C.F. REPORTThis year a large nu
Page 72 and 73: SOCIAL COMMITTEE REPORTPeople belie
Page 74 and 75: SOCIAL SERVICEWhat is Social Servic
Page 76 and 77: COLLEGE IMPROVEMENTSCOMMITTEEWELFAR
Page 78 and 79: EXIT GROUPS_... .....,, ,........._
Page 80 and 81: RUMOURS TO BE QUASHED-ABOUT B2Brian
Page 82 and 83:
Exit Group C2 • • •FRONT ROW:
Page 84 and 85:
Ex;t Group E2 •..FRONT ROW: C. Co
Page 86 and 87:
Autographs
Page 88:
R370, 7305ST927
show all

Struan 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?