The Stiff Upper Lip
The vile weather got into the headlines of most of the papers on Tuesday morning. Rain Spoils Everything,' said the Manchester Guardian succinctly. The Daily Express had ' Rain Floods Campers—Washes Out Test—Silences Phones,' the Daily Telegraph reported Over 2 in. Rain During Storms In The South,' and the Daily Mail published a disarming letter from the captain of the Pakistan cricket team suggesting that there ought to be a Royal Commission on the weather, and it ought to sit in Manchester. It was left to the Daily Worker to maintain the national reputation for looking on the bright side of thingi by printing an article entitled Rain Can Make You Beautiful.' The first sentence of the article (which turned out to be about the effects of the sun, and not the rain, on your complexion) was Summer is certainly a little late this year... '
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