A British Crossword Puzzle
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958.
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.
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DOWN
Precise (5).
ACROSS
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Recluse (0).
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Tooth (5).
7
Attendant (4).
勃
Fraglie (5).
Culamitous (0).
10
Divert (3).
3
Wealth (8).
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Catalogue (4),
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Grows old (41.
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Resolute (10).
Apart (5).
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Tidings (4).
Jolas of work (3).
10
Puil along (4).
Evade (5).
19 Portrays (10).
Bring about (8).
22 Merit (4).
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Tapestry (5).
Free of charge (6)..
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Unemotionat (5).
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Phuck (5).
23 Sour (4).
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24 Student in a military endege 18
25 Correspond (5).
20 Get up (4),
27 Unexpected (8).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,—Aerons; Occurs, 4 Spill.
7 Annuis, 8 Leave, 10 Onus, 12 Curates, 15 Strap, 16 Rise, 17 Iden. 10 Ripen, 20 Ordinal, 21 Sear. 23 Avold, 24 Result, 25 Flags, 20 Spread, Down: 1 Oratorio, 2 Confused. 3
Roll, Prepares, 6 Levics, 9 Pupil, 1 Stalbing. 12 Carat, 13 Tincture, 14 Serrater, 18 Drivel, 22 Keep.
YOU HAD BEEN MARRIED
A FEW WEEKS AND YOUR
WEDDING RING FELL OFF AND WENT ROLLING
DOWN THE STREET
THIS
DREAM
The. 'riot of the English stage'
is a tradition that a clown, off-stage, is a de- pressing person. Јонерһ Grimaldi, reputed to be the greatest of clowns, often made his audience shed- tears, because he brought his Innermost feelings to the boards.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL · ABOUT PLACES AND THINGS
PARADE PEOPLE AND
THE REAL
her.
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Hermann Melncke, A The Arat Alm? Says, the com- The bottle rwung forward, the policy. He managed to hide taflor by trade, aston- pany: "It is about young people champagne bubbled down. the himself until two minutes after ished the world a year in love. And who belter should hull, the crowds cheered and tho lirilt. THING
than ago with his claim ho be portrayed
Then he shot himself through. Party all the speakers bumbled on, and could produce a first-rate syn- netivist
his girl, shock-
girl The
was 24-year-old the head with a revolver bullet. That's Christine Onassis, daughter of tholic diamond at a fantastically worker In a factory.
millionaire Aristotle Onassis, low price. He said he could what the aim is about,"
JUST CALL Peul McGuire make £11,000,000 worth of After many lovers' quarrels owner of the $5,750-ton vossol. sparklers a year at a cost of and setbacks, the two
The ship was named after her HIM PAUL has had his bags over-
she
packed for daya -and come everything and find happi- only £1,000,000.
was supposed to launch it.
-waiting to take up his new job Hermann enlised the backing ness in the factory.
Ambassador But waiting to press the as Australia's first industrislista. ot West German
butions was just too much for in Dublin. But it doesn't_look The Bonn Government supplied
as if he's going anywhere for a A chartered alr- READY
while. him with a bodyguard as a pre-
liner landed caution against. "foreign kid-
at BULLET When Francesu Australia and Eire can't agree Hermann nappers." For
had MARKET
Ndolo airport, ON TIME Roblollo took out on his title. On one occasion he sang in a
sa'd
been rescued ne had
In Northern Rhodosia, 10 preity
his £50,000 life Austraila wants to trio called An Oyster Crossed in
Berlin when the Russians were girls stepped out, and every insurance polley, in ftome, he "Ambassador to the Republic of Love. He sat on the stage with
about to carry him off to the building within a mile was paid special nitenticn to the Ireland" to keep the distinction the lights full upon him, be-
emptied a flash,
and between Eire although Soviet Union to make his dia- anci tween a huge oyster
a plot for a tragedy,
monds there.
The girls were telephone This said that, if he commit- treland, which is part of the cod's head. Ils countenance, it would not have been new.
The news of the "diamond woeful in the extreme, caused He had begun to perform at
and maker of Bonn" spread and the operators, brought from London ted suicide within the first two United Kingdom.
to staff Rhodesin's phone years, his beneficiaries would' Eire Бауб he must be called the "stulis" to shed
of two fears, the nge
receive nothing. After that, they "Ambassador to Ireland." song was absurd. though the
monkey world's diamond markels start system. playing four months,
two com- be almost would receive the full sum. Grimaldi, at this time, could to his father's Clown. Between ind worrying
But the girls can
fida suggested taken have
up tragic cung engage
he received
Then, West German Minister dead cerinin they
He knew he might need the premises: "Ambassador to Eiro" won't be
Southern with considerable success, for education at a boarding school of Economics chubby Professor telephone operators for long, clause to protect his wife and and "Ambassador to
Ireland" but Dublin fired back is said that John Kembie look at Putney. After leaving school Ludwig Erhard was invited to They were the second batch of family.
he had regular lessons from him in "the art of
engagements, see the first tiny
He was busy embezzling A niade-ins 10 down out by the government. subtle and graceful gesticula- tion."
Behind it all there story that would have
Wan
f1 mande a
and what the plaque BAYK.
AND THOUGH YOU
CHASED IT FOR MILES YOU COULD)
NOT CATCH IT!
MEANS: suspecting that the dog and the bowler-hatted man throw some light on your subconscious Judgment of your man..
It does look as if you do not anticipate a successful marriage with whomsoever you now have in mind; after a few weeks you find your- self trying hard to keep up the appearance of a real marriage but without success, le.. you chase your wedding ring for miles in vain.
To interpret a dream adequately, one must know the dreamer well, but one cannot help
A dull dog possibly, content to sit at home and ruminate on the hearth; the bowler is a common enough symbol stodry respect-
ability.
It does want thinking out, whether you prefer romance or security If you cannot get both; but you must make up your mind now.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"I THOUGHT YOU MADE THE RESERVATIONS.)
YOU SAID YOU WOULD
TAKE CARE
OF IT!!
"SO SORRY,
The plaque farrowed)
engagements
усата
with
rulelde clause.
two pany.
before
call <
hlm
Northern
Aus-
a flat nothing doing.
Officially, the Elré govern- ment doesn't recognise British
the me-imit on land.
and in 1805 he was in the com- Germany diamond--named after Or the first contingent which vast sump from a textile com-
and Charles him "Ludwig the First." pany of Thomas
arrived a year ago, only Dibdin, after quarrelling
The dream didn't last. are still on the job. The others The crime was discovered five sovereignty over Northern Ire- the management of Drury Lane Scientists soon established it to are all married. Rhodesia hus doya
In 1800 at Covent Garden he established Mother Gove 03 a feature of the English panto- mime.
At that time, according to a contemporary writer, his "eyes and sparkling. i.ge, globular rote: in n riot of joy.
Colleagues Marvelled Crimaldi was the riot of the Engih stage for more than 40
years
C
be a very real natura diamond. cnly 881 European women for They claimed It had been every 1,000 men. Nearly all are, smuggled Into the "diamond narried. machine" by Meincke's niece and assistant.
A Corunna OUT OF Now,
Hermann 40-year-old is an Iriul on charges uf de- THE DEEP frauding his Chanelers of near-
with
incisors.
mon
THE CRUISE OF
THE DAPHNE
By John Taylor
Scientists at the Vigo tubora-IN THE WAKE OF ODYS- simpler to experience its natural-
earlier
clue
SEUS, Goram Schildt, 15/-, Staples.
be
ness; a journey necessary,
went for a swim out and come of his one
prehistoric ly £130,000, of wrongly us- suming academic tiles and of encesters in his arms.
The creature, about 13 inches false pretences. To keep it in the family, his wife, brother and mammallan skin and 10 leth seven wide, has a long and His colleagues marvel- the niece have also been including molars and four sharp led, for hey knew, towards the charged. end f, is career, that he had
is all that is Arthritis Me to joke about wus pping his vitality: Covent
OILY Troops are clubbing tory say it is probably related Garden refused to give him
Italy, as the author describes and benefit, although it was there DEATH 250 penguins to death to the coolecantha vital every day I Cape to the links between fish he had
played
this LEW most of his suc-
so it, is Italy at peace, where the voyages could Town's Table
Bay to keep maminals-found
pleasant and interesting as Ruiety of the modern Italian is from dying a lingering 3 of Madagascar.
magic back- Despite its namnvalias cher the summer cruise of the tiny seen against this Then he lost both his son and hem
With the with lo iragle clrcumstances, death.
Oll cascaded from the Dutch acteristles, the creature breathed motor yacht Daphne, right down ground of history. 01
west coast of Italy from help of a small motor cycle that Grimukil, the singer, Joc
Rapallo
is carried aboard, the voyagers wiem his father had set much tanker Sliedrecht when her hull and apparently lived like a fish, the
Bay, near Genoa, store es a coming actor, turnel was ripped open and now forms
NOT ALL' Frantisek Sicily, through the straits of see more scenery and places of in deink, and ended his life in a scum across the bay. It clings
Munk
# Whs
Messina,
to Greece, Interest and meet for more people eastwords ni a of delirium
and back than would otherwise be possible. to the birds feathers, Impeding MILK on attack
in his southwards to Crete hero in Pitt Street, swimming and allowing water AND HONEY pubile-house
As the author and his town, again. home Tattenham Court Road.
to reach their bodies.
wife trace the course of the my- Pystluni, in Slovakia. inter Two
Mary They die from
they "recapture pneumonia
For five consecutive years he thical Odysseus Grimaldi, wife of the elder Joe and exposure,
coliceted prizes Ds "Slovakia's for a new generation of readers
Calling at the volcanic island of best dairyman".
some of the spirit of the an-
Ischia where the local sights include the skeletons Last week, he was sentenced jelent adventurers,
of nung, At last a love film to 18 years hard labour by a made in East Ger- People's Court. He had
The scenes of history are des on to Capri, where men of twenty been cribed in
all their enchanting wear boards and old women of naturalness, rather than in the ever
seventy tho briofest of shorts; of pictures.
Amalfi, Borcality
where in We and
in spite of While orators accustomed
are
violent thunderstorms, recognise festivities were 10 33, Southampton (now Calshot)
rumbled
at Christ as a
taking place, as a statue, the Bikini Street, Finsbury.
the launching of explosion as a
as a photograph, death salled the Daphne, Ahead was a His health improved, although title of the Alm: "Little People AHEM.
the
170-mile stretch world's
to the spot cept, and to know Goethe Sas e concept, he remalned a a helpless cripple.with Lots of Lựck".
Cinemagoers have been pro- forgest tanker in Hamburg, only
reluxation
as a dead poet rather than as a where the rock of Scylia and the get httle girl in a white lace dress man, like other men, who blows the small crath The currents in whirlpool of Charybdis awaited raffee-room of the Marquis of testing in that they never
Now : forward and gave the buttons his nose, speaks of the weather the Straits of Messina are more Cornwallis, in Southampton any love stories in Alm,
Something Street. Dally he was carried by they have been told that "after controlling the champagne bottle lives in a house.
once-over quick
with her similar can be sald of the George Cook, the landlord, from many lacussions" plots will be a his home to the inn.
Parthenon, except that it is much
years
died.
She had never recovered
trom
death.
the shock at her son'a
LOVE
Grimaldi was living in George IN A
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Street, Woolwich. He wanted to return lo town, and a friend FACTORY many!
Proudly the Com- watering his milk. obtained a house for him at No. munist-run East German Film 'AH, ER, '
His
tho was
Company
changed.
hay
announced
the
Then Came The Fireworks
"CALL THE OFFICE — TELL 'EM I'M SICK-
I'M BURNING UP-1 HAVE CHILLS
DRIVE TWO HUNDRED MILES
THEN THE FIREWORKS.
"HERE YOU ARE —
FRESH FROM
THE LAKE /
"ER-
HOW ABOUT CLEANING
'EM
A LONG WEEK-END UNDER A GOOD, HOT SUN-
THEN THE
FIREWORKS. SHE'S THE COLOR
OF A BOILED
LOBSTER-
AND HOTTER THAN
| A FIVE-CENT CIGAR!
SHARING HIS CATCH WITH THE NEIGHBORS
· UNTIL THE BIG EXPLOSION.
"ED DROPPED.
HIS SUITCASE
ON HIS BIG TOE,”
THEY CAN'T...
MAKE IT /**
COPE, 1963 BY O DICEAL FEATURES COFF, IMWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED..
AFTER CLEANING ALL WEEK—— SETTING. UP EXTRA COTS AND SPRINGING FOR, A
BIG ROAST.
WOULD YOU MIND TAKING CARE OF SAMPSON FOR THE WEEK-END? HE'S NO TROUBLE.
NO MORE TROUBLE THAN INT.
SMASH!
nista.
WAIT TIL YOU SEE
HIM/
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2
BY HARRY WEINERT
| SMACKED IT THREE HUNDRED + YARDS-WHAT A
DRIVE/
THE BOSS WALKS IN
ON THE
· POST-HOLIDAY
BOTTLE-NECK.
DEPARTED GUESTS
OH HOW SHE
MISSES ́EM!
"NO DANCING ?"
"GOSH-DON'T THEY EVEN HAVE A
ROLLER COASTER?
THERE'S BOUND TO BE FIREWORKS, IF YOU SUGGEST A QUIET TRIP TO THE COUNT
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than trancherous; at times they are apt to flow in the direction opposite to the usual one; long after the Daphne had passed through the straits, the currenis bogan to suck her back again,
The voyage trob here to Greece that Look Odysseus seventeen days was covered by the motorised Daphne in four.. The author and his wife were A welcomed by the kind Guiscardo We people, who, poor as they were knew how to enjoy themselves.. At Ihoca they found, quite who by chance, an old man
forty years earlier had enter- tained their friend Emil Zilliacus, the well-known Finnish author.,
A journey through waters that were heavily mined during the war and still dangerous, brought them to Patras, a port where they quickly learned that there were two Greeces the old ปา western pensant Greece and
spont
with incompetence and Levan- tine business methode incor- porated. Lengthy, negotiations for a petrol permit lea only to nil the the information that petrol statione had boen on siriko for three days.
Engine Milures followed.
Greek hotels, with outdoor beds add interest to the Journey; interest of a kind different to that of seeing dead Olympia, and, near to the ruins, the Olympic torch stone that is still used. Also still in use is the staric Roman-built Corinth canal. Neither of these two monuments capture quite the personality of the ducal Palace at Naxos, owned by the richest man in the whole island"""Doesn't be aver come here?""No, not
No, not sinco the war." The war, referred to took place in 16881
This is a world where Among the people a consciousness and
unconsciousTIONS
OL.
an
of time seem to go
the
bursd
Passing In almost oVELY: COM-
in
manity there is a man who has lots his retive land to go to America, where he has found his in order to return, Ho chloved his ambition back to his hono and his people. The reader, makes his Imaginative journey back to Greece, and back into the past, for quite different reasons, but the reasons are no lom vald,
While it would, be invidious to compare the chronicle of the new voyngs with: the" vietic
well - Velikeri:
- masterpiece: the modern bikin
chem rand - Evelinam enjoyed,an, the experience Soul
tively and spDY