From: okeydokey@f2s.com-nospam   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   >   
   > He need hardly have been a fan of the _News of the World_ to recognize   
   > it as a national institution.  So also in Hoggart's _Uses of Literacy_   
   > (1957):   
   >   
   >   the Sunday smell of _News of the World_-mingled-with-roast-beef;   
   >   
   > According to Hoggart, it was actually read by a majority of the whole   
   > population.   
   >   
      
   Yes, sales of 8.4 million in the fifties suggests a very wide readership.   
      
   Picked up this penguin on the day the closure was announced   
   http://www.highflyer.f2s.com/images/clergymans_daughter2.jpg   
   - strange cover. I haven't read it yet, so no spoilers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)