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In the 1930s, Lennie Lower was considered one of Australia’s foremost humorists. His novel, Here’s Luck<\/em> was first published in 1930 and is considered a classic of Australian humour.\u00a0 It has been reprinted many times since and was illustrated by his good friend and colleague, Wep with the 1955 edition.\u00a0 Wep and Lower were closely associated\u00a0from the time\u00a0Wep first started illustrating his column at the Daily Guardian<\/em> in Sydney and later at The Australian Women’s Weekly<\/em> when that publication\u00a0commenced in 1933 cementing their notoriety throughout Australia.<\/p>\n

Lower was reknowned for his drinking and in the winter of 1938, Wep and his wife Jess were accompanied by\u00a0Lower for a week’s sojourn in the Snowy Mountains region around Jindabyne and Cooma.\u00a0 Lower was to write a series of columns for the Daily Telegraph<\/em> and Wep was under instructions not to give Lower any more money than 2 shillings.\u00a0 Lower went to Cooma with his two shillings and returned rotten drunk with seven and sixpence change. He’d gone into Cooma and told everyone who he was, and that he was there with Wep. No one would let him pay for a drink and actually pressed money on him thus defeating the other instruction to Wep to\u00a0“sober him up and keep him sober.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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