Now you have to be of a certain age to remember and have read the newspaper story with the headline, "Nudist welfare man's model wife fell for the Chinese hypnotist from the Coop bacon factory".
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| Being silly, 1979 |
It appeared in the News of the World on Sunday April 26th 1970 and I was living in a bedsit on Malvern Grove, off Burton Road.
Back then Sunday morning was the Sunday Times, and if I was in the mood I might also have bought the News of the World, or as Private Eye renamed it .... "The News of the Screws".
And that Sunday I spent the extra few pennies and was rewarded with that memorable headline which I shared with friends who like me reacted with a mix of amusement and vague distaste.
Only recently did I discover that the headline was the work of Monty Levy who died in 2016, and whose life was reported in Barrow based newspaper the Mail, which can be accessed by following the link.
And that is it, just a silly headline which has gone down in history, leaving me just to say there is no connection with "Nudist welfare man's model wife fell for the Chinese hypnotist from the Coop bacon factory" and the picture, other than that both date from the 1970s.
After all images of the newspaper will be copyright.
Picture; being silly in St Ann's Square, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Tributes to former Barrow journalist with talent for headline writing, The Mail, Barrow, February 22nd, 2016, https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/16459621.tributes-to-former-barrow-journalist-with-talent-for-headline-writing/
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