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A good shot for any family album, particularly since it Includes dad, who too often. takes pictures of the family and
neglects
to. see that ho
ts himself In samo of them.
Get Into The Family Album
may
THE old family album I be the butt of a good many worn-out jokes but the fact re mains that there's no historian to compare with a wisely used
сатета,
Aste the average adult stien he first really started moking
23 Form of expression peculiar pictures and chances are his an-
to a language (5)
24 Chooses (5)
45 Ancestors (5)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Custom, 5 Refer, $ Repel. 9 Craven, 10 Fugue, 11 Saved. 12 Lack, 13 Rests, 18 Detest, 18 Parsce, 20 Geese, 22 Mass, 23 Pails, 25 Minim, 20 Earned, 27 Rears. 28 Steer, 20 Shades. Down: Cackling. 2 Seascape, 3 Ores, 4 Menaces, 5 Referee, 0 Eludes, 7 Exult, 14 Strained, 15 Subsides, 16 Dreamer,_17___Teljers,_10_Aspire, 21 Evict, 24 Sash.
You SAW CATS
CHASING RATS-ONE CAT WITH FIERCE EYES TURNED TO LOOK AT YOU. THERE WAS BLOOD
ON ITS FACE AND A DEAD RAT AT ITS FEET
swer will be that he really got Interested in photography when his children were born.
All of which only goes
to prove that you're missing a lot if you don't keep a full, pictorial family history
And that means
the family. One of my friends, an eager picture-taker, confessed to me several months ago that among hundreds of snapshots two dozen of his pictures--in-- he had of his family less than
cluded himself in the scene,
THEN YOU ARE ISSUING KNIVES AND FORKS TO YOUR SHIPMATES. THEY TAKE THEM WITH ONE HAND, TRANSFER THEM TO THE OTHER AND STICK THEM INTO YOU
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHITE MAN RETURNS, by cludes a macaque monkoy, four Agnos Newton Keith, guinea-pigs, four white mice, aix, telescople-oyed 'callco-gold. 15/-, Michael Joseph,
their eyes on the DORNEO la no pleasant goldfish
tree shrew,
fish that baconi-Sinmers
Bo
place by Western stun cat, a Wonk do dards of comfort, and the four white doves.
doves, two parrots, discomforts described in able to get loose at any incon
and und a honey bear, which is
this autobiography leave veulent time.
little to the imagination. The book teems with interest- But they are recounted with ing characters, all excellently drawn, Chinese, Japanese, and Buch optimism and humour Indien, whe populate the island that the reader will enjoy as well as the natives. All of every minute of the story. them come to life,
The
story
Through four years of sutter alone brings them to life, but for author adds ing and starvation in Japanese good measure the prison camps the author, with her own excellent llustrations. George, her Htle boy,
and WHITE MAN RETURNS is Horry, her husband, dreamed sequel to the best-seller novel only of Canada and peace, THREE CAME HOME, which
Than
six months afler has since been Almed. liberation the North Borneo Government cabled Harry to go
Harry back.
Toturned and twelve months later Agnes fol- lowed with George.
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FINALE
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BERLIN, Heinz
Rain, 15/-, Wornos
Lauric.
Around the stars the sky was
oppressively black.
There was
Much of the story deals in terestingly with the Impact of foreboding in the air; something Ves going to happen. A sound Borneo Hfe on young George:
distant at first, pierced the George in his tile hair above Berlin. wound himself about his sheet, terror to the hearts of those
It stru
eaten or otherwise absorbed his pyjama top, thrown away his glances upwards, seeing nothing. whe-hened it; they cast fearful trousers, and burled his head
leaped into
brief
thing he does seriously, and be- Ing awake is the same. George out of sight, at seven is either full-speed or full-stop, an incredible likeness of Granny at plus ninety-five,
"George! Get up!"
Of all things about Borneo the author hates the jungle most; George loved it, When asked:
So If you're the pleture-taker in your own home, don't forget to get into some of your shots. It's always possible to arrange picture, select your exposure, your lens and stutter adjustments, that then turn the you comera Cyer" to someone else to "he" Cross the, shutter while you "No, but look at the blood!"
make
"Do your leech, bites bother
where
hearing only the throb of icient- under the pillow. Sleep is eless machinery thousands of feet Then they into activity cfter their of wondering rear; sought what shelter they
moments could And in the rubble that was Berlin, before the bombard- ment started yet once more.
Berlin, during the last fort- night of April, 1945. Berlin, a night
German doomed
city, people still existed listening to the sound of gundre in the Euburbs as the British and Allied yourself step into the picture, George points proudly to dried tanks drew nearer; to the sound
streamers of blood which trail of aircraft overhead as
after night. on all the big days like birthdown from each leech wound to pounded night after night, night days and Christmas, But don't cake like red paint on his legs..
What "Is it lilce to live in a doomed city?-to suspect to re- forget that you want everyday
I'se after years of boasting Bes, shots
and if you're keeping
Dusun ngib,
native of that the war is Irrevocably lost, a pleture biography of your
our eighteen and George at eight see even though the maniac Hitler children you'll want these often things alike, the same jokes For young children grow 50 fast, change 50 quickly, that the picture opportunities missed one week may be missed for- ever.
Naturally, you'll make snaps
-John van Gulider.
-THIS DREAM MEANS: Impossible to interpret this dream without the collaboration of the dreamer and without knowing more of his siental make-up.
In generi term, the dream suggests a distrust of mankind; and womankind: A feeling that it is predatory and everyone on the hunt: and that people generally are against you.
The predatory cata may represent your view of women-out for what Bizy can get, ngardless of the consequences. Even your pals-whom you give the wherewithal to rat
-use to attack you.
(These are one, or two of the clues that a medical psychologist would have to follow up♫
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screams orders
they
and counter-
amuse and the same pleasures orders, promises and threats
They delight.
hunt In the
from his underground shelter? Jungle together:
"Dad....
Can I
hunting with Ungib tonight?. He is go ing to call a barking deer."
"He may call one-but, what will he shoot it with?”
"A rifle--your rifle, Dad. That
Here is the truth. Here..........is, what the hounded, frightened, war-weary people in that Gor- man city felt. It is stark and
story gripping. The
is seen eyes of Joachkn German deserter from the Russian front. It is
Is we thought we'might bor- 1.
row it. May we plense?" Harry groans;
the
д
"I suppose so-but don't ruin the story of his adventures as it And stay behind it, not in his mind is awaltened at last te front!"
the utter futility. of Nazism and "Harry, do you think he ought the fuil realisation of the down- to go? He's just a child-and fall to which It has brought Ungib's a moren!"
Germany. "Ungib knows hunting, if hå He realised that democracy
moron. George'll be all had more to offer as he stazed right."
at the unforgettable panorama On the second night they get of gulied buildings and broken the deer. Another day the morals, where men lived in hunters retum with tortöltes a holes and the city crumbled du:- foot across to carry home to a ing the last foririlght of its life. menagerie which already in-
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"AND DON'T MAKE ANY CRACKS ABOUT MY
WIFES FUNNY NAT.....I'VE COVERED THAT SIBJECT TROROIGULY.
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YOU HAD TO BRING"
‚ UP INCOME TAXĖS.
DON'T YOU KNOW
THEY WERE KOOKED LAST YEAR, FOR TAKING THEIR
RETURN S
Carrie
"WHERE HAVE...
YOU BEEN?
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