The Archive · 1939

Newspaper Tie

A tie which resembles a newspaper nearly four years since it was de-among London's smart set. Made of livered. Ernie, as he is always called. silk of a dull whitish hue similar to carries about with him a personal the colour of the material used for letter from Queen Mary and another newspapers, the tie is printed with a from King Edward VIII pattern of jumbled headlines and text Most of the crowned heads of|matter, apparently taken from a Europe seem to have ridden in [number of different periodicals. For-Ernie's t one time or another. leign newspapers are rercesented, as Overseas visitors to London often|well as British—the makers presum-make a point of hunting him out in|ably hope also to sell this topical order to listen to his stories.

For|creation abroad. Or perhaps it is inthe last eighteen months, usually [tended as an Old School Tie for four times a day, he has called.gt a journalists" training colleges.

Piccadilly club to pick up an elderly retired tea planter from Coy lon. who is a semi-cripple and won't hate any other driver.

In this mechanical age an industrial al job which is still done ey hand in precisely the same way as our fathers Edward Brophy always plays dumb roles, despite the fact that he graduated with honours from the University of Virginia

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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