Patricia McGregor
/How Delightful
It would indeed be delightful to have a maid-of-all-work like PATRICIA McGREGOR around the house. But unfortunately, Pat’s not registered with any domestic agency. The chores she does are strictly for her own benefit career wise she’s a fashion model and drama teacher. No, we can't tell you where she teaches drama, and anyway, Horace, we can’t see you as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. With that glint in your eye and that smirk on your face, you’re not mournful enough.
Washing-up sans skirt is to save the skirt getting splashed by detergents, and, of course, to prove that fashion models have very glamorous legs.
Pat, by the way, is a pukka fashion model, and this is the first time she’s posed for pin-up shots. She was quite confident she would do us justice—with a smile like that and trim limbs like these, this was a certainty.
What she didn’t realise was that so many pin-up girls who put their feet up for temporary relaxation inevitably end up flat on their backs.
“This is a new one on me,” said Pat, “and I can’t say anything except the bump hurt me a lot more than it hurt you. How many times do I have to do this for pin-up art?”
And while she made herself a cup of tea to soothe her shattered nerves we explained it was a pure accident.
“Willingly,” said Pat, “I’d give you the benefit of the doubt on that if I hadn’t seen you push me. Pardon me if I pick a softer seat than before but I’m a little tender.”
We laughed that one off by saying that a little tender is just as much behind as a big tender, especially on British railways.
“You can say that again,” said Pat, and curling up on the armchair she refused to budge until we’d gone. And she stayed unbudged so charmingly we had no option but to fold up our tents and depart like the wise men of old.
Carol Burdette
/Waiting For Santa
It was drawing nigh to Christmas and CAROL BURDETTE wanted to be there when Santa arrived this time.
Last year he left her a pullover, a box of tools and a garden fork, with an apologetic note to say if the pullover didn’t fit, he was sorry, but it was a busy time of the year for him.
Carol used block letters this year when she made her Christmas list, a list full of the most delightful feminine things. She only used the box of tools once and that was to knock a nail into the post holding the clothesline, and the post fell down and so did the line.
She gave the garden fork to her boyfriend and he gave it to his father and his father gave it to his office secretary because she’s got a garden and he’s only got a flat.
So, this year Carol is waiting for Santa. If she doesn’t, she might get left with another box of tools and a lawn mower.
Tina Reynolds
/Much More
New model TINA REYNOLDS is a girl we recently found. She wasn't actually lost, of course. Ours was merely an inspired discovery of her as a pin-up. The reaction of readers has been what you'd expect when you've been in the glamour business as long as we have.
They want to see more of Tina. Much more.
Well, if she doesn't go off to the West Indies to help sell coconuts on the telly, we'll see what we can do.
Sheila O'Brian
/Drama Student
One housewife wasn't going to sit around and watch soap opera on the daytime telly once she'd got her young son off to his first school.
Not a bit of it.
Streatham housewife and mother, SHEILA O'BRIAN, enrolled for tuition in a school of dramatic art. So now during the day she's a drama student and in the evenings she's lovely and warm and domesticated.
Now there's a good approach to life, what?
Toni Finch
/Not One Straight Line!
In selecting a model like TONI FINCH to appear before the camera we automatically provide ourselves with a subject confirming Einstein’s theory that there’s no such thing as a straight line! There’s certainly not one here.
From any angle it’s a matter of curves alone. Any questions?
Sylvia Martin
/So Right
"What's German for yes?" asked the knowledgeable teacher at the foreign language evening class.
"Ja," said student SYLVIA MARTIN.
"You're so right," said teacher. "Like to come and have fish and chips with me after class?"
"Nein," said Sylvia, a secretary.
"You said nein?" he enquired with a disappointed look.
"Ja," said Sylvia.
"Oh, good," said teacher, "we'll eat at Sam's, the salt and vinegar are first-class at Sam's."
Some teachers do get some students confused.
Nadia Zadek
/Natural Charm
One girl we know with definite natural charm is Mayfair hairdresser NADIA ZADEK. There's something about this girl which makes us forget other girls.
When Nadia is around, a young man's fancy lightly turns to romance not only in the Spring. Trim, neat, well-dressed, Nadia models only very occasionally and concentrates mainly on her hairdressing career. She lives and works in Mayfair and knows every hair on the head of many debs.
Nadia likes sailing, swimming and good books. She also likes her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is a lucky guy and a good chooser.
Anne Dearborn
/How To Get A Ticket
There are various ways of getting a ticket. You can buy one, find one or have one given to you if you want to see a theatre show.
And you can have one thrust upon you if it's a parking ticket you're after. You don't have to pay until later.
Town bird ANNE DEARBORN has a running fracas going with London traffic wardens in her pursuit of parking places for her Mini, and when she gets her hundredth ticket she's going to invite them all to a party in her top- floor Chelsea flat and give them a French salad dressed with castor oil.
That should keep them on the move for the next week or so.
Penny Stone
/Penny
Just another commuter to and from the City of London is PENNY STONE, but that doesn't mean anything unbearable.
We all worry about our girls getting flattened in rush-hour tube trains and staying flattened, but girls are engagingly resilient. They step off at their station, breathe in, breathe out, and there you are, their shapes fill out again.
Don't thank us.
Thank nature for resisting all those pressures.
Estelle Warner
/Happiness Is
It's not all that complicated. It's a simple state of mind. You can't acquire it by spending millions, but it's yours for nothing if you accept that despite everything it's a wonderful world.
Happiness is just that to ESTELLE WARNER, salesgirl and just eighteen. It is a wonderful world, she says. You've only got to read what it was like a hundred years ago to realise if you'd been alive then you could easily have spent your ninth birthday down a coalmine.
People now, she thinks, don't know how lucky they are.
Bridget North (Brenda North)
/Not For The Whiz Kids
It's true that while Long Johns were popular with a bygone generation, they're not for today's feminine whiz kids.
There are exceptions, of course.
Scots girl BRIDGET NORTH finds them absolutely it in the cold weather, all kind of snug and warm and cosy.
They go with the new fashions and providing you don't wear a midi or a maxi with a split skirt nobody will know you're wearing grandmother's reach-me-downs.
Hazel Shaw
/Do You Go In For Politics?
Well, what else can you ask HAZEL SHAW when you find her sunbathing? Somehow or other you've got to launch into an airy-fairy conversation that will sound as if you haven't noticed what a nature-lover she is.
Hazel is a lovely nature-lover.
She's also a lovely secretary who works in Glasgow.
Her Scottish accent is as intoxicating as heather wine.
Actually, no, she doesn't go in for politics. She was willing to but as soon as she realised, like so many of us, that they only disturb the peace she gave them up.
She took up sunbathing instead.
Delicious.
Joyce Matlock
/Music and Housewives
If housewives ever did slop around looking like last night's night out and yesterday's throwaway, they don't look anything but ravishing today.
Like music, housewives have charm.
And they're better than all those free-thinking birds because they can look just as dishy while being a lot more socially responsible. Birds cook baked beans. Housewives cook cordon bleu.
Well, lovely apple pie at least.
Very much a picture of today is housewife JOYCE MATLOCK, who has longer legs than most dollies and a highly desirable aptitude for serving up lovely cooking. Not for all and sundry, however. Just her hubby.
Jane McKay
/Gay Jane
It’s not the first time we’ve featured gay JANE McKAY, who always turns up at regular intervals with a smile. Jane has something to smile about. She’s young, she’s pretty, she’s popular with the boys, and she’s earning lots of money as a shorthand-typist.
Always glamorous, Jane is proud of her trim figure, which looks good whether she’s wearing a sweater or a bolero. Jane works in the City of London and does the occasional pin-up modelling for us partly for the fun of it and partly for the pin money. The latter helps towards her wardrobe and her annual vacation.
Jane has lots of friends, gets lots of laughs out of life, and is really as lively as a porpoise. Maybe a porpoise can do more tricks in the water, but no porpoise looks as good!