THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.
ICES
Protect Your FAMILY'S
PROTEIN
VITAMIN B
HEALTH
RIBOFLAVIN
Youth's call to youth-
First damping of ardour--
Nightly vigil at her
First success--
window
Second damping of Wishful thinking-
ardour-
Fact
First instalment-
NIACIN
REGISTRAR'
OFFICE
FOOD (NERGY
The parting-
GILES
T'he pussing Hari-
The reunio
Second instalmeme--
presents a story to strike a
chord in many hearts
it
You could call
"The Graduation of a Husband--- from First Stirrings-to the Full Burden
THE
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
About that extra bit
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THE
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Her parents (third damping of ardour)
Third instalment~~
Ripeness ( all (Now start again at No. 1)
THIN MAN sets a new MYSTERY
This desire he translated into a series of jobs for which he
suited;
was
wildly un labourer, factory hand. stevedore, anything he could find.
NEW YORK. Man Thin Vanishes. It might be the line for the
chapter ia th stranze if and times of Dashiell Hammett, a de-
The work was brutal and veloping. fascinating saying. Whether he is writ he was frail. and to this the Biographs with no touch of ing again nobody knows.
period is attributed The man who once was
several fiction in it, though packed
tuberculosis which ted with
situations misolverl
"Private Eye" himself times in later years
the Falty Ar almost taken his life. Sam Space hiaself would the was on
buckle case years ago barve Powerl
of pudding!
COLUMN
MAT
people di sorve
Far front
more sympathy
spex Charles Baker
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their doctors than they Gus: Hospitai
have been getting.
Record-
1
ing to a medical report
day,
tha
Do: to s at.but near?. adi aling for
GE S
Baker
tobo
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do pkg of e4 p. his thatch of electric snowy-white hair oth to of mat no
bristing as defiantly as ever "Natine
have the still-black brow - otteet en tu
man Andings "It helps in car ent at ng on was sad mousturhe. the
rated by many lovers of it clea
ize
good whodunit as top operu ve: weigol who st
sake." NX
discloset
tay make
there
must
Choke k
and wasen
14:
them.
12!!
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1:
When there the huh, censties, anak been
dors and mentions for instantive of them all, stepped the other day out of the Federal help colit
eating more th is goed it will oftus stimulate and wa
gaul in Kentucky and disap peared as totally as any his own imagined suspects.
These are
unfortu-
Sur
When there GOVE DET sleep.
the- simulation, as in physical
x.is, it will eunjort, pani er anx
caling effort have
not the uple folk who fitness
Banduar trauble They ne
h:. ! !+$ pigedly
Athl hung overweight
The fine balance betweets. Else fort you not at the found you
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causing dyspepsia, e pically certain susceptible peupte boly www-whit determines new experiments at Birmingh
that athlet what happens to your weight have
justified Falty regulating cooches are governed by mechanism in the bain yien for hidding runne's in zmoke.
The chiscovered have
But for o: Jivery people suck ing has little effect on heathing. Numark has Lathe to do with it
and only slightly in vasra work of the healthy heart
The regulator 1 highly sens Live to changes in the strength of the sugar dissolved
in
FIZZING
blood-s ruumi. Be blood-sugar★ A SCIENTIST
the
strength falls,
Ta han
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son is out messages, which auto- surac bottles of beer 127 violent-
mucivaly (nerva, e tu?
appetite, ly an ove flow a
are oprnet.
suck a the.
with
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for
The world-famed Pinkerton
and mn le Agency}
1
has
Pinkerton His days as a
between 1917 173277 Can fortune Betionalising the und 1922. That work wits
death business, now udds a too hard for his heaith. new riddle to the great un- answered one he left behind
the when
prison gates a clanged shut: How did man with his brain get em
in the first place broiled with Communists?
Fame's Lightning
THE change seems to have come in middle life at
his after
the
time,
пож
Hammett had served just wo months and 18 days of the six months' sentenc.. they gave him last Septem- some unperceived moment
(along millionaire Leftist friend. Frederick Vanderbilt Field) for refusing to tell who put up that 26,000 dollars bail hond for 11 convicted Reds.
He ha proved that the be| HER
Some prople reem by le bon with the appetitgulator out in the e buutes invariably con-
of adjument It is
Live that it
so insen: trens daggor-shape crystals
they can rwy be fure the minute that Coes not fveling of hunge
then the gh the powerful efe wiern
↑ in microscope.
The
blood-ugar level high
Such paste
are still an US when they have coton all the
[noxi they nerd. They go on rating to satisfy their hunger and put on the extra feat us TEX:
Once they have got lot the amount of food they need falls, because they tend to take less exercise. But their appelle re- mains as big 39 (ver So they got Pater and fatte.
Doctors coll this exaggerated appetite bulimia. The only effective way of treating it seems to be by giving drugs which :e- duce the appetite,
from the Anyone suffering reverse complaint--chronic lack of appetite has always had the doctor's and everybody else's sympathy. Now it recs that the chronic over-caters, who have been dismissed as gluttons, may be just as deserving.
SMOKING
"IF THE lives of snicke's are a trife shorter, perhaps they may also be that more the merrier." That is how
HAVE FUN
heart
2952
Arty Quarter
17 years ago, when the fertile pen turned sterile and more sharp-edged thrillers to join the golden cavalcade.
came
"I would have been firedt, anyway," he once said, "ex
literar vept for a certain
quality in my reports.”
He has just left prison
with
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Dashiell Hammett
"It is all yours. I have got what I wanted.
But he only thought so. From misdir thirties to 1949 the Hammett (at £500 a week) toil- et in Hollywood's sunlit gave- yar:
For a while he did pon- Characteristically, they dis
not use him as a writer but a pous literary reviews for a
York a technical advises and tinkerer- New defunct newspaper. Then he drop-in-chial for the scripts of others. ped from sight.
now
hightning But in 1929 fame's
His Arst novel-length struck.
detective yarns "The Dain Curse and "Red Harve!" came cut in smash hit.
book form and were an intant
Then came the lung proces. all; the sion, money-makers iterary soirees, tra-rup la hand, the for copies autographed gushing dowage:s.
It was early apparent--or
Hammett loathed and despise 3 now that the it But he wasn't oblivious to so it seems
Dashiel life of
Hammett the happy clangour of bookshop cash registers all over the world. ERE in New York, was not to follow the cou
ventional paths. where for years hi has lived
in A quietly modest second-floor flat Victorian house in the estab the Greenwich Village arty pority N start off a chain-reaction, rap,!- |
As in the quarter, he has not yet been y legal the
seen around any of his old ber, he beli; ver
The problem he is now tuck-haunts. If his publishers, Virag is how to get righ of the lawyers and crystals.
-London Express Service)
NANCY
In 1934 came the bigged bem all: The Thu Man And his then-Hollywood celles. A 14, surprising parents not at all, he sud- the denly walked out of Institute Polytechnic Baltimore.
at
He wanted, he announced, agents know to get down to the "bedrock where he is they are not realities of life."
"Cents" of Security
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NANCY?
TRYING
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OF MIND
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the time Was
He wrote a play, but it found no suge
£500 a week
ROM then on he professed he was not intreded in writing again There was, he used to say and unhappily it was true-no point in werking when men pro- using ready-made radio shows on wax wrre willing to hand him £ 200 a week just for using the Thin Man Sm Spade, and i others of his works.
the dis
same
night-club
at least a werk With £500 from usio alone he lived well.
little, shot a shed pheacam, round.
Jammett L
Was this the time when the haring a fat with a man friend
May be. the married and was divorces always-questing brain turned to yes ago. His wife, had nurset Left Wog dialectic? ham through: a TB attack and But that again is a mystery only
the Thin Man can unravel. they had two daughters).
When the Hollywood telegram came he waved his hand around the flat and shouted joyously:
By Ernie Bushmiller
BY LIVING WITHIN MY
INCOME
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