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
Moya Bowler autumn 1968, Bowler was producing two-tone shoes, using material combinations such as snakeskin and suede, and had introduced what was described as a "medieval slipper" with ruching along the vamp. Her shoes were also being retailed in a new Sloane Street store called Sids – owned by an American called Lawrence Copley Thaw – alongside models by Ronald Paterson, Leslie Poole, Adele Davis and Simon Foster. All of them were RCA graduates and Bowler was responsible for creating 60 per cent of the shoes in the store. Sids' men's range was popular among visiting Americans – some bought six pairs