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Comic Relief

The biggest change is the price C.A. Johnson "The year is 1910 — or 1940, but it is all the same," wrote George Orwell, describing the world of boys' weeklies thirty-five years......

Metric Madness

An open letter to the Metrication Board Oh, tell me where is logic found? You scrap the lb and keep the £. Most connoisseurs have thought in metric; I'll grant you that, in......