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SNAPSHOT
DES
GUILD
Proper. Focus-U ESPITE the fact that proper focus is an essential of good pictures, niony snapshooter falls to focus carefully for cach shol As a result his pictures are fuzzy and unsuited for en- largement oven though possable contact prints may bo made from the negatives.
of
course, where Exed-focus cameras are used, focus presents
no problem, Box cameras, for example, are made to pleture any subject six feet or more from the camera, Only when working at close range does the picture-taker need to check his distance, lest he shoot too close to his subject.
Similarly problems
of focus
are lessened with cameras hav- ing automatic focusing devices. Range Anders, coupled with the camera lens, provide a positive focus. So does the ground glass used with press, view, or reflex
LAMITOS.
But with
thousands of cameras it is up to the picture- taker to estimate the camera-to- subject distance and focus for this distance by adjusting a focusing ring graduated in feet. Here's where troubla starts,
"A... British Crossword Puzzle
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Attractive (8).
Nobleman (5),
福
Small places of glittering material (8).
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For 10
Near relative (0).
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Properties (7),
Ancestor (4).
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the untrained eye can rarely 18 Judge distance accurately.
was
several months lined
Stronghold
ca 18 Cut short (7),
Meadows (4).
Closely packed (7),
Part of a compass (8). Toples (8),
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Corpulent (5), Insertion (0), Taverns (4). Embedded (8). Absolute truth (0), Summary (6). Outcome (5), Confections (5).
Have confidence in (5),
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14 Quiet
15 Sword (5).
10 Drive off (5),
18 Shut (8).
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Vestige (5).
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Theatre attendants (3).
As a result the wise picture-18 Laker
trust to Judgment. 20 doesn't This is particularly true when 21 slipoting
from 15 feet or less. 20 Because of the "depth of field" 27 of lenses which herc
4520 Lances 20 feet or greater may bo estimated safely. But when focusing on subjects 0 to 15 feet from the camera, It's a good idea to pace off the dis- tance before you set your focus, or use a small, pocket finder calibrated in feet to provide the camera-to-subject distance for setting the focusing ring on the camera.
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-John van Guilder
-THIS
DREAM
MEANS:
Rather looks
| AN if you fancy yourself as д spell- binder: you Dan produce anything from уант mouth from a yarı grand
to
plano. Indeed you feel per- haps that you, are well able
to provide
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YESTERDAY'S
Wander (0).
22 Reposes (5).
23 Perfect (5).
24 Give way to (5),
25 Dregs (4).
CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Rumpus, 5 Islam,
8 Stump, 9 Settee, 10 Panie, 11 Detër, 12 Open, 13 Terms, 10 Delude, 10 Eludes, 20 Dudes, 22 Weep, 23 Steep, 25 Pause, 20 Nectar, 27 Erode, 28 Reins, 20 Sildez Down: 1 Restored, 2 Muttered, 3 Used, 4 Steered, 5 Impetus, 0 Spared, 7 Axiom, 14 Resented, 15 Supports, 16 Dusters, 17 Legends; 19 Lossen, 21 Usage, 24. Peel.
YOU WERE PULLING
MILES OF STRING
FROM, YOUR MOUTH.
for yourself - 'Just by talking alone,
The dream suggests you're in love with the sound of your own voice; with the "shleamanship" idea; with the idea that you
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE GUEST WHO'S A'BORN COMEDIAN' YULL. OF TABLE TRICKS, JOKES (IECALLS THEM) AND LIGUGH ANIMAL SPIRITS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A NERVOUS BREAK-DOWII.
SLAM
THE CITY ALAN VIO LET MIMSELF IN FOR. LA COUNTRY WEEK END, )WHERE THERE'S NO' "PHONE, NO BOOKS, 110 SUNDAY PAPERS, HO
TV. AND NOTING TO DRINK NOR EVEN CARDS.
“TAIRE'LL BE GUESTS
MIOTAKE AN HOIR, OR MORE TO SETTLEDA
| DOWE POS, THE NIGHT
AFTER KEEPING YOU UP TIL ONE AM,
YOU ALSO PULLED, OUT BLANKETS, CHAIRS AND EVEN A GRAND PIANO
Dr. VIPER
I nominate him for the title of the
most quarrelsome man of all time
DR. VIPER. By Philip.Cosso, Carroll. 21. 332 pages.
ERRETINGA
among 18th-century records, Dr Gosse has flushed as, rare a specimen of the ever English Eccentric as delighted those who meet him only at second hand.
A strong claim can be made for regarding Philip Thicknese (born 1710) as the most quarrel- acme man who ever lived,
"He has the stupidity of an the owl, cald Samuel Foote actor, "the vulgarity of a black- guard, the obdurate heart of an assassin and the cowardice of a dunghili cock.""
"A bolsterous ruffian; a poor, crafty, superannuated lunatle,” said Lord Mountgarret..
IRGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
Library List
THE NEXT MILLION YEARS, By Charles Clive Darwin, Rupert Hait-Davie 154% 210 pages. Anybody who thought the first million years would be the wors? "can read Darwin and wigs that catimistic grin off his face. Ho dips into the future far as humary eye can tow. Not an encouragin aight.
NO IDEA. By Rand MacColl. 120 64 255 PRESE Sahity, all about the pilicial
Urifats in America, particularly members of a Frult and Venta Procuming a Mission Written, with evident pleasure, by one who is not blinded by lays of his subject.
QUEEN ELIZABETH. BY MŰrom Waldman.. Collins, 7 day 159 pager. A well-balanced and most eloquent short life of the greatest Englishwoman
gallstoned was so enormous that the doctor had accepted it from Both men
had been friendly him in lieu of a fee, with Thicknessed with both he had quarrelled. Foote wrote a play which the Duchess of King- gone
had the temerity to make this rash attempt, it proved to be Lord Pembroïte! His lady proves with child-the thing is likely to be hushed up."
Thicknesse was happily married to three wives in succossion; and had eight children,
In spite of gallstones and a
· lifelong addiction 40 oplum, hò Ilved to be 13. One of his last outbreaks was to challenge.ofrea captain, aged 81, to a duel te
His Hfe story, assiduously pieced together, ̧· Is „told "bý' Dr Gosse with a drý humour,which does not, exclude sympathy for an add and foolish rogue.
BARALDAS, By Par Lager- kvist, Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. 133 pages.
As a youth, Thicknesse had NOVELS on New Testament to the new colony of themes commonly fall into
ston considered a slander on her- Georgia with the Wesleys, with one of two disastrous classes: (1) self. An acrimonious corre- whom he quarrelled; and, in the "reverent"; too pften this means affected. (2) the "popular": spondence followed. Foote, to his Jamalca, an an officer, (quarrel- too often this means vulgar. indignation, found that the ling with his messmates) had In the first, the author seems Duchess's letters were written for helped to put down the rebellious to be waiting in thick woollen hor by his supposed friend Thick- Maroons.
gloves and with water instead of nesse. He rewrote the play and
ink in his fountain pen. In the He returned "Dr. put Thicknesse into it as.
to England to second. he is liable to produce Viper."
clope with one heiress and, after Quo Vadia,
Barabbas is a Swede's attempt her death, marry another. With Thicknesse claimed to be an his second wife's
money he to avold both disasters. authority on medical topic, bought himself the governorship rhetorical
He purports to tell, with no flourish, no striving at the after here," the later lite was his boast that one of his own of the Landguard Fort
mouth of Harwich Harbour. of the
who was set fres This post he held, under a singu- when Chris was crucified. larly easy-going War Office, "for
Barabbas, a tree man, exultant and astounded_goes to see an 18 years of unending turmoil. He sold his governorship for exactly twice what he had paid for it.
especially on gallstones.
It
pan capitalise your charm and get profite out of your insincerity, It suggeris also a state of egotism and conceit which will need to be remedied before you can hope to be a really like able chap gather than a short-term charm merchant.
Week-End Notes
WHY DON'T YOU PUT SOME FLOUR IN THE GRAVY.. NO GOOD WITHOUT IT........ AND IF.
I WERE YOU I'D WASIL. THINGS UP AS I WENT ALONG...IT CAVES
CLUTTER... YOU
OUGHT NEVER
PUT
*
ETC.
PICTURE OF A PROSPECTIVE HOST WHO HAS JUST LEARNED
THE GUESTS(WITH DOU) CANT COME.
Occasionally THERE'S
A GUEST WHO IS DETER-
· MINED TO MISTRICT YOU ABOUT PRACTICALLY EVERY THING YOU DO FROM COOKING TO ROW TO MAKE A BID OR HOW TO WASH THE DISHES... BOT SHE NEVER OFFERS TO DO ANYTHING
VOILD YOU RATHER. HAVE
· ROTRAHKK? "NOTHING S
Fow of his investments were
after that, he is pursued wherever execution, says Lagenkvist; And
he goes by the memory of the man he watched dying on tha
so successful. How, then, did cross. Thicknesse live? By journalism,
Finally, Barabbas an old ex gambling and a little blackmail. convict, sets are to Rome, mady seeking to forward the cause of Obtaining some indiscreet letters the by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, e. He is caugh, and crucified. man who had died in hib
"When he
felt death ope
| he ran off a thousand copier ori
a private press and sold them to proaching, that which he hast Lord Butc
he
always been so afraid of
He loved gossip, and fall joy- said out into the darkness, as fully on titbits like the dreadful though he were speaking, to 41: nceldent to poor Lady Pambreko To thee i deliver up my soul." at Wilton: "In the dead of night A strange, dignified story. It her ladyship's door was suddenly falters on the way; in the end it broke open and a man jumped, is moving. undressed, into her bed! She rang
the bell, the servants came and, after examining the person who
Bo. KEMP
STARRETT
SOONER OR LATER, YOU'LL GO TO ONE OF THOSE QUAINT OLD-FASHIONED PLACES WHERE EVERYTHING IS JUST : PAS IT WAS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS
AGO, AND TWICE AS UNCOMFORTABLE.
COM 1957 ES GENERAL FEATURES. CES IN WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED
WE'VE HAD HOSTS WHOSE CAT HAD A LEASE ON THE GUEST ROOAL BED AND WOULDN'T BE DISPOČCESSED
16.
·OR THE ONE WHO CAN EAT EVERYTHING AND DOES, CLEANING OUT: YOUR REFRIGERATOR EVERY NIGHT,
★
TUIE first official account of the
THE
manded
part played by British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African and Indian forces in Kore, s ́his been--published by HM--- Stationery Office, It_la"? "OUR MEN IN KOREA”, written by Eric Linklater, the Scottish author and playwright, who was commissioned to write it on be half of the three service depart ments, by the Central Office” of Information. It is Dlustrated with 24 pages at photographs and several sketch maps. At one time private in The Black Watch, Eric Linklater cont
the Orkney Fortricas, R.F., during World War Two and also served in the Director- ate of Public Relations at the War. Offico. After: studying official reports and records, Mr Linklater went to Korca in the summer of last year to obtain first-hand Information about land, sca and air operations from the men of the Commonwealth doroes. His, dotatled narrative not only giver, vivid ́ ́ descrip- tions cf the heroism and humcur, the hardships and triumphs of the fighting men of the Commonwealth, but enables the reader to measure the achievements against a frank and shrewd judgment of the organisation, moralo and battle tactics of the Communist forces. The book closes with an account of the ceremony, at which tho three Commonwealth brigadea were formally united, on July 28, 1951, to bring ine 1st Com monwealth Division injo being: "But a feeling of union, an awareness of common cause, à common sentiment, had existed. long before the official union was celebrated on the little field among the Immiin hills. The silver. | bugles blow, or summx bredzo filled the five standards, and the division turned it back on ceremony to face the northi again. At Kaczong there'was tailc about. a truce, and on one ride at least come hope of peace, Bujino,one had much faith in the Chemy ta good: Intention, and it - baftia camo again before the winter, the division was ready gory.. The soldiers had
of the entry not in despite him.
themselves : šoku÷Qodir
સાવ નાની લી.