During the '70s hard-working staff at The Australian Women's Weekly would break the tension by throwing a tennis ball around, with the injunction that it must be caught with the left hand.
One staff wag cut the head off a life-size cardboard photo of Ita Buttrose from the rest of her cardboard body and during one vigorous tennis-ball-throwing session, he raised the cardboard, life-sized, Ita head above a glass partition for all to see.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
