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this one.
You know how it is when you his surname, but he is fifty
It will have to have people start telling you stories. years old and a London Under- a new bill." He scribbled some words in a notebook,-8 Top, 1 One part of you listening to ground Inspector. what is being said and another "Of course, rubbing out Exit. Westbound, Opp Guinnes. He went on. "A poster that part is pounding the old brain-moustaches on posters isn't my box trying to think out à better real job, it's just part of it" gave us a lot of trouble was one, it was like that the other he said. "My job is to see that "The Widow'. The public didn't day when my pal John was posters are put up at the right like her and did her in proper, telling a story. His was about time and place, and to advise ly." remember "The Widow," rond-basher-uperers.
customers on advertising posi-a pleture of a woman in black
a
"I was walking down White- hall just before V. Day.". he said, "when I spotted a little old man with
hattered. mildewed bowler hat set slap on top of his head standing at the kerb and turning his head quickly right and left like he
for was looking something. Well there was nothing used in that but all of a sudden of the road, whipped out he darted out into the middle ginormous hammer from his started furiously packet and hashing the road with it. was all over in a matter
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By CAPT.
C.W. SMITH.
Lions. Still if you're interested in moustaches you must come round with me one day." So it was that Lea and I went on a moustache hunt.
mourning looking very pale withi eyes that stared nut at you, tragic and questioning. Under- "Кеер neath a slogan rend Death of the Roads."
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"Well," Leo said, “I saw ont of The Widow and when they had finished with her she took-i ed a real treat-a picture of and health. She had powder I was a bit surprised when tongg on her cheeks, lipstick on Leo turned up,, He wasn't like her lips, and beautiful long eye- a moustache hunter J
pencil. at all, lashes drawn in with mind you I wasn't quite aure Didn't last long that poster." what a moustache hunter look- We got on another train and
fine. Ited like, but I was surprised went further down the of nevertheless. He was dressed. "Doodlers aren't the only offen- seconds and he was back on the in a prim black city' auit. ders, though they kerfi again. Well, he kept on white collar black tie and a worst" said Leo. "There's the i deing this up and down the black. Antony Eden homberg "Picker," for instance. He'll just und darting from side to side hat. Very neat indeed. I look lean against the wall, waiting, until he came to the end of ed around for his weapons but and he'll pick, pick, pick at, the Whitehall. Then he shoved his they were all inside his pocket corner of a past. Don't know huge hammer into his pocket, which scarcely showed 4 bulge, what he's doing half the time.
his hat Armly outo hard rubbers, soft adjusted
rubbers. Then there's the "Heel-dubber." his head and marched very Hig- ink rubbers, pocket knife and He's just the same, only he uses. nifed and businesslike into the razor blade.
his feet, and by the time he's House of Commons."
Leo's territory was the Cen-finished dabbing all the bottom That was the end of John's" trai, Piccadilly, and Northern of the poster has gone." story. Well, that was pretty Lines. We got out of the 1 blushed, guilty, for I am a good really, I mean it is nice! Tube at Leicester Square Stalabber myself, and changed the to think that there are. little | tion, evidently a station with subjert quickly." "What about blokes with bowler hals and very good "game" "Ag Leo stalk.service-men doodlers?" I asked. "Well, "Chad, I suppose is one huge hammers going arounded along the platform and cor-
the bashing roads, it sort of makes ridors I trotted at his side. All of their's. He's all over life interesting. But by the the time his head was shifting place. Wot, no beer and time he was finished I had sent from right to left like his neck things like that. And in one
was hurting. His eyes were mild place where there
a heart. If East then had to return but they were keen all right. brown paper on the wall Chad was there with a 'Wot No bill?
a club, South would be sure to Suddenly he spotted one,
see ise nothing in that sult, no mat Then there's Picendilly. That A little while ago 1 waiting girl's face plus moustache ad-
was a favourite of the Ameri-
Peter who had the club X. fel a train in Piccadilly Undervertising a make-up - powder.
the
But East, after the first few lead and make him come back; a primary cause of scarcity in ground station. I began walk- Quickly he pulled out a rubber cans and Canadians during the paring to throw him into
discards
diamonds, on
SAW into the jaws of a tenace. Natural-through the plan, and so protect France today is hoarding; that ng down the platform looking and got to work. He picked the War Used to write with
ly, then he wants to thwart the ed his side against It. From the hoarding is itself due to distrust at the advertisement postera right rubber first time and in posters, fixing up dates
moustache their girls. Sometimes, they'd play and considers tossing away diamond 7 on, as he discarded, the future ut the franc; and like people do, when I spotted a few seconds the
was off. We passed on and assay. Been waiting here half an the card with which the declarer he selected first a spade, then that if this distrust can be struck a picture of a very nice locking
You threatens to give him the lead. a shrew blows, hoarding will girl advertising a hair sham-he chatted to me I learnt quite hour. Am browned off.
can go to Then they'd sign His hope, of course, is that this card was his heart K and finally POD. I felt very sad because a lot about poster defacers. wease. 'There may well be same-
will enable his partner to take "Dondlers, I suppose you their names."
And so it went on. I learned the trick instead of himself. If K-9 and spade 8. West meanwhile the heart 9, leaving him his club thing in his argument. Certainly she was, as I say, a very nice
call them." he said, "but I ca the trust of the peasants in the leaking girl, but by the time
them a blasted nuisance. Mous that in the New York Under the partner has not the next-discarded so as to keep the spade had walked right down frane has been struck many
man on the job with a salary stitute a gift to the declarer. But held the heart & and his club Q-s of twenty dollars
It is not, as the trick thus forfeit and the dummy the heart 10 and learned that before the war ed is regained through-avoidance clubs A-10. If East had held the doodling was quite scarce, but of the final lead into the tenace. heart K, the throwin play would... now it was everywhere.
rease nominal wages. Two of the essentials to the success of a Jawroprice policy RIC that the public should co-operate to the jenem of offering and accepting ver prices in the free markets heer their cartar be even a įshow of enforcing them--and that production should make supplies
ore abundant so that the na- al tendency, af prices is to de- Jeline.
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two small clubs. His next dis-
hrewd blows in the past, and platform and counted five girls taches are their biggest line ground they employ a full-time higher card, this seems to con-A, hear! J and club J.
they have been taught by hard experience not to board frames, they will hoard produce. It must, however, he said that. Hoarding is not the only reason for the pre- rious position of the franc. Others, which leap to the eye, are the high rate of Government ex- senditure, the extem of the black market and the gloomy or bitter Frenchmen view which many take of their country's political
with moustaches drawn them, I really began to interested in the subject.
get
of trade, of course, but there are plenty of others. Teeth, for instance. If a face of a poster If there are people who draw has got no teeth then they'll moustaches on posters, are there give it some. If it's got teeth them then they'll scrape them out. people who have to rub out again?" I wondered. It was Then there's pipes and specta- a twist on an old idea of mine cles. Men advertising cigaret- that there is an opposite to tes will be given pipes, and good things. For instance, looking girls will have black most there are people who throw dog-glasses over them just to make erds away and there are people them ugly. I don't understand who pick them up; there are IL" people who whip things from |
sympathetically ather peoples houses and Just then we came to a real Except, perhaps, in the matter policemen who whip them in "snorter." It was a cigarettes of the black market, conditions in jail; there are mannequins who advertisement showing 20 plain France today do not greatly re-get paid for putting clothes on cigarettes sticking half-way out semble conditions in Belgium last and strip-teasers who get paid of a packet. But
were plan no longer, but cork May, when M. Van Acker for taking them off, and so on.
All right, if there are people tipped, for someone had touched- made an arbitrary cut of 10 per
who put moustaches on posters up the ends with lipstick, and cent. in prices with a
in Tubes, then there must be very realistic too it looked. which, if not complete, has since [ proved to be surprisingly great. Nor conditions in Hong Kong i where cuts have been equally
and economic future.
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Leo shook his head; "They use everything-pencils, chalk. ink, crayons, and nowadays lip I won't tell stick. I can't do anything with
to find out and thats how I met Leonard, "Leo, after the
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The Story Of
Arnhem
"In the annals of the British created by the, airborne troops,
which is believed to have the Army there are many glorious British 2nd Army planned a swift. Y
Washington, Jan. 15. getting the discouraging '5" from The second year of East, switched to the heart Q peace finds an, estimated The Atook it and South then
proceeded to run all of his dia. nérable.) 11,000,000 men and wo-monds. The heart K was marked If East makes an out-turn men in the world's ma-by West's Q lead as being with lead of the spade Q against the jor armies..
East. So the declarer planned to 5-Diamonds
himself against club South's wisest course of action? This figure is based on a com- prolect pilation made by Maj. Hal D. has shown a praiseworthy deter-!
Steward mainly from the U.S. manation not to subordinate
War Department's intelligence practical measures to political
reporta for an article in the theories, and that is a resilient 1. Take an intérest in every- 1. Study his tastes in food? current issue of the semi-official jumping-off ground. Everything thing concerning the house? It Give him the dishes he likes, "Armoured Cavalry Journal.”
living learn to cook them properly, Stoward stressed that the re- depends upon the co-operation of shouldn't be merely a
port, does not pretend to com the public. If this is obtained, it place which your wife keeps and serve them attractively. will be far easier to create the clean.
plete accuracy since secrecy and 2. Avoid tidying his desk or evasion cloak the strength of rency. These are a rate of pro- up, mind the children for an work bench unless he asks you? Some countries-notably Russia.
deeds. But there can be few drive to cross the Rhine in two you, but he knows where every world's largest army at pre- episodes more glorious than the days and tum East inte Germany. CENTRAL AIR TRANSPORT CORP duction which will increase the hour or two? She gets tired, It might look like a muddle, to
ratio of available goods to avail- too, you know.
thing is.
The attempt to carry out this able money, that is, higher pros 3. Give your wife her own
3. Make going out a real The five major powers have epic of Arnhem. Those who fol- diction per man: political personal spending money?. It's
your boat an estimated total of 8,600.000 after will find it hard to live daring operation is shown, in stability: resolute economy in humiliating for her to have to occasion
set. In the years to come, it will of which include the mass 'des- ese National Army. Covernment expenditure. No mere ask for every penny she spends. clothes and look as though including 2,700,000 in the Chin- to the standards you men have Theirs Is the Glory" highlights
4. Notice what your wife you're enjoying yourself. devices can, in the long run, breed
In addition, the Communists a great thing for a man to cent of paratrorps and gilder- borne troops over enemy-occupi- be able to say 'I fought at when she
4. Make the most of your in China were reported to have Arnheme."-Field Marshal Mont-ed terrain; hand-to-hand fighting the public energy, enterprise and wears and tell her
looks pretty 7.
Don't take her looks? You tried to make nearly 1,000,000.
in the streets of Arnhem; be- enfidence which are the cure for for granted. Women, hate in yourself attractive enough be-
"It is, hard, however, to obgomery:
leagued idlers firmly defying difference.
fore you were married, didn't tain any accurate figure on the In September, 1944, to British an ever-tightening ring of Ger-
Chinese forces as each war lord
Airborne troops, Arnhem was man alluckers and the last, 6. Keep up your intellectual lite his own army of undeter just a name on map....a lown desperate chapter, showing rem-
mined figures," Steward saiɖ. always have something interest numbers about 3.000,000-the
with a bridge 00 mites behind nants of the herole task-force interests? If you read; you'll| The Russian army at present the German lines..
withdrawing <ver the river un- ing to talk to him about,
On airfields in Britain, men der murderous cross-fire from largest of the five major powers, were being briefed for their part the enemy,
"Theirs is the Gl¬re" is a superb China is next, Britain third in the greatest airborne operation with
nited States fourth with Army of two American and one onderfulment'emen, who about 1,500,000, the in history. The Allied Airborne tribute to those "dirty, grimy, 300.000,-Associated Press.
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PARIS PRESS STRIKE
Paris, Jan. 15: Evening papers were snapped
to
British Airborne Divisions under a dropped from the clouds the command of Lt.-Gen, Brown- fight where they stord. It was ing was to make surprise land- Brought to the screen by Mr. J. film ing behind the eriemy lines, Arthur Rank, the British capture the bridge over the Maas,magnate, entirely without the the 'Waal and the Lower Rhinejose ot studio sets or actors. 15. and hold cpen the gateway to the Every incident was either ex- perienced or witnessed by the 8. Remember, to tell her 8. Show sympathy for him up by news starved Parisians plains of Northern Germany.
when they re-appeared today The lat. British Airborne Divi-veterans of the action who ap New Delhi, Jan. 16, Mr. K. F. S. Menon was once in a while that you love in his troubles? If he's wor after settlement of the six-day ston would land north of the pear in the film. One year after printers Lower Rhine to scize the bridge the battle was fought the sur- named last night an India's her? She might know it, but ried, listen to his problems. old dispute between
Don't try to laugh them off. and employers."
of Arnhem-the northernmost vivors returned to the actual Ambassador to China. Mr. she likes to hear you say so.
The dispute was settled early key point of Field-Marshal Mont battlefield emid the ruin ot Menon, in Oxford graduate, has
re-enact Take 10 points for each back; with 50, you're not bad today after a 90-minute moet-gomery's daring plan. To the Arnhem truthfully to been. Indian Agent-General "in China since 1943 and was
honest "Yes" (no kidding your either; with 40, you're like ing, at which both parties South, American Airborne troops this most gallant action in which delegate to the San Francisco self). With 80 points you're most of you sex; but with 39, agreed to accept the decision of would seize the bridges over the they gained the admiration even and New York United Nations a model husband or wife; with
The film cpens at the King's his proposals within Ave days. Grave. conferences in 1946 and 1946. 70, you're pretty rare; with 60, 20, 10, 9, pull up your socks, the arbitrator, who must make Warl at Nymeren: and Maas at of the entry.
Reuter.
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