The Press: Coo! Said Mrs. Hunkle

When Reporter Sam Boal got to London, he realized that "the people of America don't know a damn thing about the people of England." So the correspondent of Manhattan's tabloid, laborite Post decided to report the British through British eyes. The eyes he chose were those of his widowed, Cockney charlady, old (65), worked-bowed Mrs. Hunkle. This week, readers of Boal's twice-a-week column were seeing the U.S. through those same Cockney eyes. Boal had brought Mrs. Hunkle back with him, took her along on a Hollywood vacation where everything from elaborate hot-dog stands to film-colony eccentricities evoked her astonished Cockney "Coo...

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