David Sayers of Gwandalan wrote in about his late friend Doug Bower, a chief steward on Australian ships, who arrived in San Diego behind an Australian Navy warship. The warship's captain, seeing the Australian flag on Bower's vessel, hurried aboard and explained that after ten months in the US, they could not buy Vegemite anywhere. Bower gave him three and a half boxes of the spread, and the captain departed with a rating carrying the booty. He was popular at breakfast the next morning.
Graeme Finn of Campsie observed that the opening animation for Bewitched was produced by Hanna-Barbera, the studio behind The Flintstones, and that Samantha and Darrin once appeared as guests on an episode of The Flintstones.
Two readers recalled dining at the Chelsea restaurant. Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest described an opulent evening where menus presented to ladies bore no prices, causing shock when one male guest saw the actual bill. Peter Olsen of Hornsby noted that he took two different young ladies there in the 1970s; the second became his wife after he proposed over the phone from Sydney to New Jersey. Daniel Low of Pymble thanked a previous letter-writer for introducing the word 'shevelled' to describe a well-groomed appearance.
Carole Dawes of Randwick lamented that the NRL grand final's use of 'versing' as a verb has migrated to the Rugby League World Cup, where she heard 'New Zealand verse Australia' on the radio.