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A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
2 Fale (8).
3 Stew (6)
1 Monkeys (4).
4 Width (7).
B Vain (4).
D Gloomy (4).
10 Obvious (7).
11 Pit (4).
12 nap (4).
14 Coward (7).
17 Bedeck (5),
10 Kind of saw (5).
32 Withdraw (?),
26 Narrow road (4).
27 Quatz (4).
28 Sporting dog (7),
Fo Ship's company_(4),
30 Clever ($).
(31 Withdrew from (7),
32 Girdle (4).
DOWN
4 Mixture (3),
5 Disclose (6).
12
U Financial check (5),
7 Purport (5).
12 Urbiascd (4).
13 Plunder (4).
15 Indian coln (4).
id Finished (4).
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10 Agree to (0).
20 Chooses (8).
1 Attacks (6),
23 Run off (0),
24 Extent (5).
.25 Weary (5)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Dzenmp, 5 Again,
& Eazer, 9 Result, 10 Ranch, 12 Treal, 12 Chum, 13 Tiaro, 16 Modest, 19 Elated, 20 Dosi, 23 Kiwi, 23 Aitie, 25 Chide, 20 Volume, 27 Erred, 28 Tears, 29 Deceit. Down: 1 Directed, 2 Costumes, 3 Melt, 4 Patriot, 5 Aerated, 6 Gratis, 7 Incur, 14 Attitude, 15 Accident, 10 Masters, 17, Derived, 10 Lender, 21 Ochre, 24 Code,
-THIS DREAM
MEANS:
Another cl these childish pleasure dreams: Ilka flying thro' the air will tho Ereatest ut ease. In adults. they usually cocur great burden sommard
after
aan finados been
taken off your mind; or
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD KHAYYAM AND
Campfire shots like this aro ossy using modern photo fash
PICTUR
equipment.
Campfire Pictures
ICTURES and plenies go. together. This is true day' or night, for campfire pletures are easy to make with modern flash photography.
So whether toasting marsh- mallows on the beach or lis- stories tening to someone tell by a fire, don't miss the chance to
scene capture the manently in pictures. Even the simplest cameras can give, you excellent shots.
nor-
Most of today's new cameras have built-in Bath syreh:ehbea- tion. But even if your camera lacks this feature, you .con make Hash shots by setting -it- on "time" and using a separate Flasholder. All you need do is set the camera on a log or firm support, open the shutter, trip the flash, and close the shutter again.
US
Whichever method you however, few suggestions may prove helpful. You'll want, for instance, to have someone
WHEREVER YOU GO
YOU'RE SKATING
when you are elaled for any reason, The elation gives you a feeling of silky power and Immiediate control: "smooth speed and tkill." Skating dreams also occur in people who are prone to mood- swings; either up in the stratosphere "feelin' high" or sunk deep
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHEN A PAL TELLS YOU HE WOULD HAVE LOANED YOU THE MONEY...F HED ONLY KNOWN”........ TELL MA YOU STILL COULD USE A LITTLE
EXTRA CASH.... AND OBSERVE THE FAST FADE-OUT,
"WELL/
nt
YOU MOVE WITH SMOOTH SPEED AND SKILL, THOUGH WHEN AWAKE YOU KNOW NOTHING OF SKATING
up
the Victorians
H MODERN excopted,
the most
A Book of Verses underneath
the Bough.
A-Jug of Wine,
our
An-
tn
JOMAR KHAYYAM: o now medan blackguard," But the thundred The version based upon recent rophet
Bubalyatoradeally found ya discoveries. By Arthur publio. I breathed, Strathjer Arberry. Murray, 15. 159 than preached, a gospot of hedonism and Indolence, pages.
appealing to Btrangely TTYMNS ANCIENT AND strat:-laced, hard-working
cestora.
They tried, sometimes, thumbed, mis-
justify their interest in a post quoted quatrain in English
80 pagan by pretending that poetry is:
Omar was really a mystic, using symbols like wine. Jugs and pretty girls to convey spiritual truths. It would not dos: When Omar spoke of wine, and tong, he was mystically roferring to carthly pleasures.
The Victorians toyed dreami- ly with the idea of themselves folling under GEORGE MALCOLM : 0 palm tree, wine and THOMSON on BOOKS ganion within reach. Then, Omar Khayyam (died resolutely taking their top hat
Diso 1123, a centenarian;
from the peg, they would march off and put in another twelve hours at the office.
В
Bread and Thou Beside me singing
Wilderness
Loaf of
In the
Oh, Wilderiets were Paridae.
Cnow!
Thought
belongs (more
or less) to Persian astro-
nomer and
mathem, D. -
tician
in-
each edge of the group you're shwoling hold a match or flash-vented clay scarecrows and re- light while you're lining formed the Persian calendor). your shot. This way you can check your camera's finder to be sure that the whole group is in your picture:
Again, it generally helps to try to pick a camera angle so the Light From your flash attachment will strike the faces of your subjects from about the same angle as the firelight. This help to make Your pletures natural and reallatie. It can be done between by chooing with the fre you and your subjects and a bit to one side, Or, if you are using hand Blaiholder not attached to your camera, you can trip the shutter with ere hand while holding the ftach in Desion with the other.
Exposure for campare Ash thots need not be too critical. Recom- mended exposures, for other types of dash shots, based on lamp-to-subject ditance, generally can be used ïus. erituly if you drape the Flasholder with two or mare thicknesses of a This will reduce the sufficiently to retain the night- time, firelight feeling which you wish in your finished print.
--John van Guilder
common-pocket handkerchier: don
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down below sea-level. If you” are a mood-swinger in a buoyant perlod then the dream may remind you to slow your tempo of living somewhat so that you won't bump too much on landing.
Try It Sometime
WHAT DO YOU THINK I PAID FOR IT?"
" $12.98
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BU
KEMP
Words were translated from a manuscript in "purple black ink, profusely powdered with gold,' 500 years old, in Bod- teisn Library, Oxford, by Ed-
ward FitzGerald,
Now try it this way: These simple things if they be
minc-
A loaf of purest heart
wheat,
A thigh of lamb to be
nicat,
For thirst a flagon, of
wine:
women
amlable:com-
But no Victorian plenic for two was complete without a Book of Verses"--which does not appear in. Omar at all, but only in the ingenious fancy of FitzGerald.
The casy-going adapter of. of Omar's epigrams, was a deren- dans of Oliver Cromwell my and the Irish Earls of Kildare.
He was the last e-centric mem-. good ber of the family. Els father Jest most of his money digging And if to cheer my wilderness for coal under Manchester, Hia A maid refusing not my kiss, brother John was an evangelie That were a life of perject Bliss who, in the ecstacy of preach- No sceptred multan can possess. ing, would take off his shoo
Thought, dill Omar's Warda, and stockings,
Pro- by Arthur J. Arberry,
fessor of Arable at Cambridge, FitzGerald was a bachelor by from a manuscript 750 years nature and a married man by old, which arrived from misalce.. His marriage was later.. Teheran at Cambridge Univer- brief and disastrous. sity Library in 1950.
The Rubalyat, of Omar Khay- FitzGerald or his wife--.
all.
allowance.
Jew and devoted himself for
Omar. He struck up
the
mental gush,
yam, in FitzGerald's version, with a handsome fell (In 1850) оп strenuous, earnest Victorian England like years to
not a thunderbolt, but a soft, a friendship with a handsome, heavy, perfumed cushion. intemperate falloren
It very nearly did not fall at Suffolk const whom he called.
"Pech"! (real name Jon Published at a shilling in an Fleicher), and on whom he a great deal of senti- of 250 copies. Filz- wasted Gerald's masterpiece found no buyers and, after two years, With Omar, FitzGerald had a Its way to the penny box out- masterful way. "It is an amuse- side Quaritch's bookshop, where ment to me to take that I was discovered by Swin- liberties 1 like
with these burne and Rossetti, who ang Persians."Yet he had the gift Its praises, forcing the price of being completely wrong en up to fourpence.
roints of detail, yet faithful to Swinburne's copy fetched the profounder meaning of the 9,000 dolars before" the war. original.
Carlyle had
different opinion: "My. old friend The result was not acom might have spent his time 'pelent rendering of a Persian much better purpose than with poen, but a new English: porm the verses of that old' Moham- of the first rank, "grasping with sure psychological insängt. the kernel of the original.".
"WHAT'S A MATTER,
DID I DO ANY- THING...OR SAY SUMPH
WHEN SHE TIRLATENS TO SCREAM IF YOU DARE TO KISS HER.TRY HOT KISS- ING HER AND SEE WHO'S TIE FIRST TO GET BORED STIFF,
¡COPA, 1952 BY GENERAL FEATURES.-
CORP. THEWORLO RIGHTS RESERVED...
A
STARRETT
Professor Arberry working on duller earlier text than Fitz- Gerald, provides a 'new' transla- tion in fluent verse. It can be read with pleasure. It hardly challenges FitzGerald."
*
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. By James Jones. Collins. 181. 766 pagos, pe
IF novels were
written bv
bulldozers, this (which "swept Amarica ten months ago) would be a classia, It has great length and no shape, abundance of weight, and na insufficiency of depth; By duli obstinacy of repetition, it makes an impact which art and selec tion could have made. In 14nth of the space.
Its scene Is Hawolf In the months before Perri Harbour, its people are American "regu- lar soldiers, particulary one private who falls in love with a prostitute: ono sergeant "who' has an affair with an officer's wife (who has had venereal disease).
VIEN A FRIEND SAYS SHE'S AFRAID HER. HEW GLASSES MAKE VER. LOOK OLDER AGREE AND FIND OUT HOW TO' LOSE FRIENDS AND INFORIATE FOLKS...
HOT A
WHEN YOU'RE SHOWN THE NEW DIDS AND REE EXPECTED TO AT LEAST PRETEND YOU THINK THEA EXPENSIVE...TRY UNDER-EST- IMATING THE PRICE .....AID CEE WHAT HAPPENS TO AJJOLD FRIENDSHIP...
KOP, JEST AWFUL! MY - NERVES ARE ON EDGE.... CAN'T SLEEP,CANT EAT DIZZY.... SPOTS...
GOOD
LIKENESS...
VERY POOR
AID.
PAINTING,
REALLY
WHEN TOMEONE WANTS YOUR HONEST: OPINION,LET THEM HAVE IT...MAND THEY'LL
BE AS CORE AS A FOOT FULL OF TACKS.
ALDON AND ON
AND ON
WHEN THEY ASK HOW YOU FEEL...TELL'ER
IN DETAIL AND YOU CAN ALMOST BEAR THEM LOSE INTEREST.
* WHY DONT
YOU GIVE UP?
HE MIGHT
BITE YOU
AGAIN!
HOW,2,
BOY!
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TAX MOKEY.
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TO BUY A YACHT AND A STABLE &
No thought (if "thought" is the word) of ignorant and stupid men is left unthought, no word fert unuttered. Typography almost disintegrates in a splut ter of dashes. It may be a 1---- good idea to uso a bad, word once in a while for the enke nf atmosphere-but soon the nosa gets accustomed and smells it no
more.
From Here to Eternity has the anger and staying 'power of self-pity, Givo Jonea, his due, his pages" "throb "with" industry and resentment flaring up in «tinging dramu at somʊ éxpep- Monally brutal or vicious" a0T- He paints a world of dreariness, Just, sadiem and futility, In which mon pacillate betweź barruek-room,
bordello and "glarehouse," ">botwennustipri animal instincta and fowar:idens.
With an oyo,
on nar, and fr knowledge of shorthand, a writer ran demonstrata to anywho doubt that such 'n "world" EXIS But novels beglis" whore "phork- hand ends. Realism femora than a kind of squalid reporting...
10 And it is really a mistake för u novellat to have his bar to cibse to the ground that begit [only hoss the molzesie | sawers.