Umpiring in the 1946–47 Ashes series out. One English pressman wrote that this was Bodyline, to the anger of Vic Richardson, Alan Kippax and Clarrie Grimmett who had seen the real thing. Clif Cary wrote that "the placements were sufficient to cause the batsmen worry, although they did not justify one journalist describing the attack as "bodyline" to lend colour and expression to his cable". The England bowler Bill Voce and the reporter Bill Bowes did not comment on the matter, but Harold Larwood said that Bodyline was less dangerous as the batsman knew what to expect - bouncers on the leg-stump - but here they
Bowler hat that contemporary fancy dress outfits for this character reference the bowler hat. There was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California known as Brown Derby. The first and most famous of these was shaped like a derby. A chain of Brown Derby restaurants in Ohio are still in business today. Many paintings by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte feature bowler hats. "The Son of Man" consists of a man in a bowler hat standing in front of a wall. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. "Golconda" depicts "raining men" all wearing bowler hats.