George’s friends seated at Ben Buckler are probably hiding from the purple prose of Man magazine December 1937 ...
To-day the beach assumes due colour and importance only when the Australian girl beats time to the music of the surf with a damp and lovely leg. The fit of her costume is a marvel of skill; world’s belle-honours may be claimed for the Australian girl — the brightest of all the gems which a benevolent Providence has flashed across a dazzled world.
31 March 1940