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Crisis In Men's Clothes
"Dressing for
the occa-
sion" is going to be the theme of a men's clothing campaign in 1951, according to an article in the Decem- ber issue of Style for Mon.
It says there is a "crisis in men's clothes" which is not dva basically to purchase tax or high wool prices but to the slovenly, aloppy, and untidy clothes stan- dards of Englishmen.
Ono reason for this, the writer says, is "a reaction against uni- forms and a
to 'cockr
a snook" or re
Titin
Ls particularly
have
unfor-
tunate at a time when "British women
nover looked marter and better dressed." Women, he is convinced, would welcome a revival of smartness in men.
The article deprecates the wearing of aannel trousers and sweaters on theatrical first nights, and asks: "In the trade ou to accept this appalling national carelessness? We can fight and defeat it it we act with a clear sense of our immediate objective. This is to get men Interested in clothes. Considera- tlon of "the finer points of style" must come later,
RECORD IN
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BRITISH CAR PRODUCTION
British motor production JERRY WALD HENRY KOSTER and exports continue to rise. Statistics, issued by NEXT CHANGE (3rd JAN.)
the Society of Motor Manu- facturers and Traders show that motor vehicle output in October reached a weekly average of 11,350 cars a record figure-and 5,470 commercial vehicles.
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This compares with a week- ly average in September of 9,908 cars and 4,897 commercial vehicles. For the nine months from Jan. 1 to Sept.
NO SNAPS IN THE ALBUM SHOW GRANDMA LOOKING LIKE THIS
Dress rehearsal for Chelsea Arta Ball by Croydon Art School students. Their show was a skit on the last 100 years of fashion.. Left to right are Rita Diamond (1851 Bustle), Rosemary Jacob (Naughty Nineties), Wendy (London Crosley (Bustle Girl), Ann Disbury and Esme Ketley (Suffragettes).
Express Service).
SMALLEST POLICE FORCE
AWAITS NEW
By J. W. Taylor
POSTING
The smallest police force in the world is likely to get a new posting
30 the in the near future. It comprises two sergeants, and eight constables sup-
weekly figures were 0,904 cors
BOYS AND
MAGAZINE
A Bull That Was Named Horace
-Ho Belonged to Punch's Grandfather-
By MAX TRELL
VES," Mr Punch was say-
"YES
ing to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names, "you may talk all you like about Ilona and tigers and other wild ani- mals, But the wildest animal
over know was Horace." "Horace?" said Hanid.
"Who was Horace?" asked Knart.
Mr Punch smiled. "Horace was a bull. He was black with white spots, Не belonged to my grandfather. He lived in n big feld behind my. frand- father's house. There Was high fence around Horaco's feld. That was to keep Horace from taking a walk outside his field. I always felt BOTTY Ho ran
Horace, In the meadow,
zallroad
on the for Horace because he couldn't tracks," replied Mr Punch, “and ever leave his field. Finally I walled for the locomotive to spoke to my grandfather about come up. I yanked on the rope letting Horace out. But grand- around Horace's neck with all father said no."
my might. But it did no good. I couldn't get Horace tracks."
"Why?" asked Knart.
Vory Bad Tamper "Grandfather
sold Horaco had, a very bad temper. He was sure that If Horace got
off the
"And what happened?"
A Loud Noiso
"Horace and the locomotive
out of his deid he would cause met," Mr Punch said in a sað a lot of troubic, like pushing voice. "There was a loud noise. things over, and making peo I shut my eyes. When Хорсп- plo climb up trees to gel out ed them again, Horace was of his way, and bellowing and my side and the locomotive roaring and snorting up and was lying at the bottom of the down the town. I said I was hill. I
hill. I certainly felt sorry for suro Horace would behave that
that locomotive Horace. you
had pushed sec, Grandfather said, well, Then we went into town. I tled a strong rope around first thing Horace did Horace's neck and held on to knock down several lamp- Horace with all my might, and posts and telephone poles. He kept him away from China did it accidentally. They hap- shops, in that case it would be men he chased
to be in his way.
man all around
all right to tako Horace for a little walk."
it too hard.
The
was to
Д
the
police- block.
to бау
Knart was about to ask why Horace only wanted Horace had to be kept
away
hello 10 him,
but
the police-
from Chinn shops. But Mr man didn't understand hun. Punch took a deep breath and Then
went on.
Horace felt D little thirsty, so
into he went
asked for a
1
Ы
and
"That afternoon I got a good drug-store stout rope, opened the gate to glass of water. Everybody ran Horace's field and went in.
out of
of the drug-store. That was Horace was eating some grass
Horace
didn't into the
at the
other end of the field.ouse Ho
He looked up when he saw me through the door. He went in coming but he didn't say any through the window. thing. He didn't snort, or rour, worst
thing of all happen or bellow,
when Horace passed the anything.
He when
was alled and let me shop.
or Just stood there
They have a distinctive uniform of
and 5,020 commercial vehicles. plied by the General and Municipal Workers' Union to keep law and
October exports were highest in
of
shipment
of
530 vehicles sent abroad were worth £6,200,000, word
Interests
of
the industry's his-order at Billingsgate Fish Market. tory for the value any their own and carry truncheons. single monthly
As far back as 1947. it was Billingsgate even has its own commercial vehicles. The 13,- This fish mart, the most
During the ancient market belonging to agreed in principle that in the poets who compose and print the satisfactory | the Cockney verses which ap- of that ex- the Corporation of London development 30,780 cars were
part of pear on the stout paper bags agricultural and pivot of Britain's fish the City in which it was situated, hanging in the fish shops. This
business has been carried should be moved. the market new record supplies, has long caused A more recent alternative, not for a century by the Hancock
that a family. and chaos be entirely rejected, was
be built at the Sep- congestion tember and 0,356 as the cause of its close proximity quay should. average monthly production for to the traffic streams in the the Arst nine months of
London Bridge area. year.
month
ported.
Production of tractors reached a in October with 280-against 10,871
total of 11,-
for
the
A British
Crossword Puzzle
123
24
26
ACROSS
3 Incarcerate.
8 Mask.
9 Place of residence
11 Tormented.
12 Artifice.
13 Evil spirit.
18 Appointments.
19
A songbird.
22
Helped
24 Entire.
25 Disclose,
20 Rebate.
1 Revises.
2 Sting.
DOWN
3 Prevailed upon.
4 African mixed race.
5 Incursion.
6 Mettic.
'Required.
10
Earn
14 Dance.
16 Mila
16 Gentle
17 Vagrants.
20 Scatter.
21 Confuse.
23 Volco
23 Overwhelm
SATURDAY'S' CROSSWORD: Across-3 Seraphic, 7 Overt, B Eclipses, 10 Propel, 19 Secedes, 15 Fice, 17 Violent, 18 Wastroi, 20 Aye, 21 Refutes, 20 Nature, 27 Dissects, 20 Trito, 20 Resolves. Down Roamps, 2 Modoc, 3 Steed, 4 Acid, B Hustle, 6 Coa- set, 0 Clever, 11 Repay, 12 Felta, 14 Silent, 15 Flout, 16 Enter, 18 Warder, 19 Senees, 22 Fasts, 23 Tulip, 24 Sewer, 25 Poel.
FERDINAND
market.
Most favoured solution at the mament is to move it to a new site in North London. This is kely to be near King's Cross and
which Euston Stations, handle most of London's fish supplies.
The name Billingsgate is tra- ditionally believed to be al corruption of Belin's Gate, Belin being the legendary King of the Britons who rebuilt the clty wall and put gate in it,
on
HUNGARIANS MAY NOT RUMBA
Young Hungarians
are
providing the only opening being told by their Com- giving access to London on the munist leaders what, and
south side.
There is little doubt that for nearly two thousand years
fish market has existed on the
what not, to dance. This is
to ensure that "imperialist
cast of London Bridge influence may be driven When building excavations from the social pleasures
site
in the hundreds of tons of
were made in the area
of Hungary."
chells were found. Ex- Guidance in given in the perts decided that they had Hungarian magazine, Cultured been dumped there by
the
to make the founda People. It classifies dances ar Romans tions of one of the earliest follows: landing stages at Billingsgate.
COVERED UP
As the years passed the stalls
Waltz and polka: tional, democratic."
Tango, foxtrot, slow
Tradi
foxtrot
of the fishmongers trading in and English waltz: "Reflectiona the area were superseded by of the capitalist decline which the more permanent structures cannot be classed with American of sheds and shops, and up to dances. They may be danced
12
TE
bother drug-store
But the
all with plates and dishes and
(as all
und
put the rope around his neck. China shops are)
as a lamb. I and glasses He was a gentle know he was going to behave cups and vases and bowls and himself
jors. Horace just ran in to look
them....G
..Grandfather Was
never
"And did he?" Hanid want at ed to know.
right. Horar
Mr Punch sighed. "It wasn't bave really Horace's fault. It was Punch. just that he didn't know
should
Cut
gone in," alghed, Mr
"When he come how again, everything in the China was. Wc started shop was broken. And all he did
In and strong be walking down the road. All of was just to run
run no around, and a sudden Horace heard some-
right
out
No
one else snorting and roaring.
ing. again. Poor, poor Horace.
I guess he thought it was one over
another bull like himself. But walk ar ook him for another
It
19 Punchi,
"Mr wasn't. It was a locomotive
puffing up the hill with a lot really true?”
this story Knorf demand-
of cara behind it. Poor ed. But all Mr Punch would do Horace!"
"What did he do, Punch?"
was to sigh deeply again and
Mr murmur: "Foor, poor, Uttic
Horacel"
Rupert's Autumn Primrose~13
Inside the cottage Mr. Dear primroses in it she would give the other one to Edward, so I must mares in bewilderment at Rupert's
hurry and look for somt."
What I prize. "Gracious, I've ever seen
Primroses in autumn?
12′′ miles his anything quite like that!" she
Mother. But Rupert has already **Isn't it lovely says the
On the Common a started out, gaps.
little black dog passes him. little bear eagerly. "There wer
**There's only two of them at the Fair so it "Hallo," he thinks must be procious. And the Gipay Jock the Soete. Where can he lady said if I brought it bacle with have been?
ALL RIGHTS REJERVED
a century ago the market was with taste. They cannot fula SIDE GLANCES
still a mass of these. It
Inevitable that business expan-the aims of the workers, but it to fight against sion should cause covered is too early
market to be bullt at a cost, in them.
1874 of
of £270,000.
Of. the
at many curiosities
Modern dances-swing, sazba, Billingsgate quite the most in rumba, conga, boogie-woogieo teresting is the porters hats and the like "are tools of Made by one man, they are
constructed to enable the porters
aggression let loose by the
to carry two hundredweight of bosses of
America against
fish on their heads. Each hat human culture and progress."
made of five pounds of hard leather, 400 brass rivets and 300
nx, the af
complete wax, headgear taking eight hours to be born make. The brim is permanent Communists
"It is insisted that a now, Communist danco culturo must on Soviet lines. The
deprecate
12 is not ly upturned to catch the water tremism: They say
and necessary for Hungarian youth dripping from the boxes, the crown 14 padded with to dance "In overalls and with a special paper, soft but strong, hammer clenched in the hand." daviation." A hat costs a portor £5 10s, This in a "Leftish
must find "happy but its life la from 25 to 80 Dancers years.
medium."
By Mik
By Galbraith
ODEN, VIRS STYRKA DESUDE MÀ. 7. IN MES, VI, NOR, OFK
"Could you givò a sermon about businessman who never take their wivan anywhere?"