Scavenging with a certain grace

July 14, 2026 — 9:00pmIt’s not what you know. Jim Pollitt of Wahroonga recalls a Foundation Day scavenger hunt (C8) in the ’60s at University of NSW that “was won handsomely by the commerce faculty when one of the high-scoring items was a shop mannequin. One of the commerce students was a certain Michael Grace of the eponymous department store. A visit to the Broadway store, a pantechnicon and the rest, as they say, is history.”“A ‘lost in France letter’ to the Herald reminded us of a late evening in northern Paris, where we had walked a long way from the railway station with luggage, looking for a French friend’s place,” writes Donald Hawes of Peel. “Lost, we hailed the sole human, who was on a foot scooter, and asked, en francais, for the required street. ‘Are you Donald and Ana?’ we wer