The Moon and Twopence
Other attractions included messages of encouragement from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Gift Potter and the Rugby Portland Cement Company; the offer to readers of two seats in the first passenger vehicle to the moon as a prize for a competition of which Wednesday's .issue would give details (Wednesday's issue contained no reference to this project); and a further instalment of Mr. Randolph Churchill's by now fairly familiar views on the Press. (" We would have liked," the editor commented plaintively, " a friendlier article for the first issue;" for Mr. Churchill went out of his way to attack The Times, who had given a " full and handsome account " of the Recorder's advent as a daily.) There may have been a case for including, in a long column of unusually pointless gossip, four paragraphs describing how disappointed an American film-star was that her husband could not also be presented to the Queen at the Royal Film Performance; but this case was gravely weakened by printing the last paragraph in front of, and not even in juxtaposition to, the other three. " You will find, the editor maintains, " by reading the Recorder every day, that there is plenty of fun in the world." There is certainly some evidence in his first issue to support this contention.
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