PEOPLE magazine ran this two page article about Northern Teritory News editor "Big Jim " Bowditch in June 1957 , surprisingly calling him a London cockney . That is him , fag in hand , examining the newspaper , the front page quoting NT Administrator , C. Archer , calling for February 19, the Japanese bombing of Darwin , to be a day of national observance .
Seated at a typewriter is reporter Bob Greenberg , formerly of Sydney , believed to have also worked for the ABC. His wife, Margaret , was also a journo, and could have later been involved with Better Homes and Gardens magazine .
The article includes a photo of production manager Allan Rabjones working on the noisy old flatbed press in the News factory , with a photo of one of the 20 paper boys , Noel Humphrey , who could earn up to eight pound a week , including tips , selling the News , good money then, nearly as much a s a cadet reporter .
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The PEOPLE feature on Bowditch follows a five page special on Aussie swashbuckling filmstar , Error Flynn , with some details about his early adventures in New Guinea and at sea .
