News form London of Ted Kavangagh, the brilliant Australian writer of comedy for the radio whose face customarily wears one of the saddest expressions ever seen above a typewriter. Kavanagh weighted sixteen and a half stone and a half stone and hadn't been to a doctor for 20 years when his friend Tommy Handley, for whom he wrote ITMA copy, died suddenly of a stroke.Ted decided to see a doctor, who after a series of examinations put him on a diet of oranges and reduced his weight to twelve stone, improving his outlook proportionately. February 26, 1951.