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A British Crossword Puzzle
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113
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8
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21
124
125
26
28
27
ACROSS:
9 Supposed (4).
DOWN:
essing (1).
3 Imitates (4).
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1959.
THE NEW BOOKS
TYPEWRITING TOUGH GUYS FIGHT
FOR CHEYNEY'S THRONE
In
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND · PLACES ·AND THINGS
ON Sun - tanned Jawa Okur Helmer, Austrian Minister sory sale of the land adjoining THE dropped, Bling in the of the Interior.
the wall. Then all of it will centre of TILES
Nairobi, He has reminded them la come down for good. That Kenya's capital, 120 forceful terms that the wearing if the courts don't' intervene, feet up on the flagpole atop the of gold uniforms and decorations Colony's new Legislative Counesi is still forbidden by law. building, hung a green, leaty. Cue for the blast came at a SQUEEZED Fluanciat branch-surrender aymbol old Salsburg reunion when HOU QUEEN are tightening on down for Mau Mau terrorista. of old boys turned up
Egypt's ex-Queen warpaint.
full
•
screwa
Woo i the last, despairing
Narriman. effort of Dedan Kimathi, nwag-
Last week they squeezed off gering terrorist trader? Could
Farouk's wedding ring. Which the guna be put away? Was It HANNS' Hanns Elsler, 58- incans money-short Narrinan KISS ME DEADLY. By
had by GEORGE
his stomach, she
said, ali over?
SONG year-old composer has decided on a divorce, wants Arthur Mickey Spillano.
menacingly "Klas me, deadly." Squad cur shrieked their
of Red Germany's to hasten the slimony which the And Hammer's heart belongs to way through The MALCOLM THOMSON
beats divorce court crowds national anthem, which
will Barkor. 91. 64, 192 pagos.
ussuredly Velda, his secretary, "a benull-around the buliding. Their cut dally over the East radio, grant her. ful Jungle animal sizing up her rews, THAT would the late with two hare' fista on a type mate."
Kuns at the ready, was arrested in Berlin's West The wedding ring came off at clambered up the scaffolding sector the other day. He was a family meeting in the Narri- Peter Cheyney say, writer.
It
mate, helping her
the to the tower roof. Cheyney himsoit used to die beautiful Jungle animal
picked up off a pavement-well man flat. She put it in u box, if he could hear that
All they matches 5,000 words caught and tortured by the Greek having a
found was a little and truly drunk, according to signifying, as far as she's con- a struggle for his vacant tate,
drink. From police.
cetmed, the end of the affair. throne in the realm of If his secretary was not Mafia, a New York criminal the wrong end of a police .38
the A taxi driver tipped off u band he would compose to organisation. Readers will find he explained that it's an old cops after Eisler failed to And quick shooting, tough her over a telephone. And so it hard to decide whether Ham-Continental custom to ity o the faro. He explained later talking, no-thinking thrill- deeply was he embedded in his mer or Velde is the more fool-branch when the last tile of a
Win wer ers had broken out?
hinly or the more lucky.
marching Aroof has been nailed in place. And
his West Berlin dozen times a question liko
composer THE
OK 20 Wor ho that his own publisher, Mr
Nairobi sot Its Jaw, hitched friends, had gone on a drinking MAGNATE <ines nobody shoot its gun back to the quick-draw spree and
WES just out run Collins, was directing those
of West ordinary sort of bloke, one of Hammer?-teap to the mind.
the thousands of little men Hiller who seek a "new Cheyney" Spillane's methods are crude; mily to be swept away by the Poon and went-a-little-red-
the rapid low of incident Spiliane battling terrorism.
threw into the maelstrom of the to an Australian writer, he is content to inilate
a female obeys his own advice to
story- Bant Singer, while a second physical appeal of
character by
mysterious," a phrase like: "You tellers, "Keep publisher, Mr Burker, have to look at the covers of pressed Mickey Spillane's books and pick out the
like of here and there that mixing claim to "the mantle
bent."
1
Narrative porn (8).
3 Fight (5).
2 Den (4).
8 Skin (4),
4 Infer (0).
5 Law (7).
Brought
back
to
con-
for
Striking-block (5).
12 Outcome (6).
24 Certain (4).
10 Somethink speriat (51.
18 Divert (6).
19 Perus (4)..
20 Mes (0).
24 Artless (5).
26 Pick-me-uper 103.
26 Rank (4).
27 Fashion (5).
28 Cure (0).
YESTERDAY'S
Selousness (7).
↑ Artist's board
colouri (7),
in taler of Abyssiniu (5).
14 Sea-soldiers (7),
4 State grant (7).
#5 Full (7).
17 Bind 28
Bird (8).
19 Cad
(0).
21 Ripped (4).
22 Get up (41
2 Spot (4).
CROSSWORD.—Across; | Renson, Filly,
7 Severe, # Dilty, 10 Send 12 Creates, 15 Cedar, 18 Tare, 17 Ever, ID Revel, 20 Destred, 21 Slee, 23 Admit, 24 Hermit, 25 Drugs, 26 Atoned. Down; i Rezisted 2 Advances, 3 Ogre. Imitatére, fi Litter, D) Erresi, 13 Ike jeling, 12 Carex, 13 Tallsinan, 34
Selected. 18 Vendor, 22 Deft
--THIS
88
YOU WERE
SITTING ON A
SOFA HAVING TEA
DREAM MEANS:
This dream In of the dropping, falljag, being-pushed type: where you lose your balance and your power to help yourself. There you are pracefully relaxed on a nota having ient seated and therefore not prepared for at- tack: when some invisible danger from behind swallow you up.
The leitmotif or main theme of this severe anxiety dream is your feeling of im-
5
Cheyney,"
he
Mr Cheyney, it is would not be amused, ney's place in literature,” would probably say (for he In- vorinbly spoke of himself in the third person), "cannot be filled
current story that he would repeat the 5,000 words instal ment to the friend with whom why he was Junching.
even
you
party
-
it
faeed-back to
an Mike Hammer's detective BOUNDS Over
It has paid more dividends OUT OF
agency is over likely to do.
21
he had been out with some HOME IS Whon
marks.
of the Job
Wedding bells rang bomb- of the
bride
the scarred island
last Heligoland* Splitane (born Brooklyn 35
week for
decade when years ago) Jus sold 11,000,000 rst time in a In contrast, tertain.
Cheyney's Eng- copies of his stories. Horo at
two young Germans married. Dir 11sh detective,
Callaghan, least
Silly part is that the "Chey-
s something Cheyney
mainland retained a faint air of gentility would have respected.
came over from the after 1ነ።
with fourth two-
a pricet half an hour be- Spillane makes
£20,000
her spent fore the ceremony, compared book.
Built on the tried prin- fingers-of-rye. And
A hastly- with the proceedings In a Spll-
of elple lane epic, Cheyney's work has honileldal
single-handed, wedding night in
rigged up tent and beat it back and sx-studded the decortin
to the mainland next morning. of an amateur crusade ogalost criminals, Kisa draughts championship.
Explanation in
that Heligo- Me Deadly should not fall below Yet, basically, Mr Callaghan's this average.
land, by law, is still harred guiding philosophy is the same as that of Mike Hammer, the detective 20-called
who u clates in most of Spillane's pub- shed works; Enter the enemy's eitadei, ask for trouble trust to luck. Killing is better than clues - and more fun for the reader.
Killing is best
Cheyney was a jealous man, Nor would he have twen im- pressed by the fact that Spil- lane hammers out his variations on the sex-anel-murtier theme
SUDDENLY THE BACK OPENED AND YOU
SUPPED DOWN IT, POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING
potent powerlessness to cope with a danger you cannot sec. Evidently you have a presen- ament that your present staté of comparative peace threatened by this danger which, for the moment, you cannot...or will not---See. ·
To continue the symbolism of the dream. why not stand up, turn round, face your Wife squarely, survoy overy possible source of worry, forgetting none. Face the anxiety squarely instead of pretending it isn't there.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHAT'LL WE DO FIRST?!
THERE'S A SHOOTIN'
GALLERY!"
"I WANT'A GO IN THE
FUN- HOUSE!
"I'M HUNGRY.
and
15
un-
10 women,
•
power
selected for A
has.
irtol
the
how cour
chief's
alleged
Two
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OUT FOR THE COUNT circulation again.
The Count
is
•
of
"The Count of Eastern Front the Skeleton Last week, belatedly released Koys" is out of by the Russians, WILL come morching home again,...to a burglar large-size surprise. During his famous in the underworld for protracted absence the Welshuhn his bearing, impeccable, manners family he heads had gone up in and stylish clothes. He had the the world, cheek to uso notepaper with an
When Willi otopped over the cmbossed coat-of-arms showing German Edat Zone border he crossed was wearing everything he owned
In the centre
Akeleton
pel keys.
two
out
an ill-fitting auit provided by Palice caught him as he Was
his captors. That's what he having lunch with 4 smartly thought.
But who was this being helped dressed woman in a fashionable
of a shiny restauront in Rome.
new Mercedes the bill, limousine by a deferential chauf- The Count settled put on bls mcnocle, bowed reur? It couldn't be....Yes it his own Frau Welshuhn. deeply to kiss the hand of the was..
And, Gott im Himmel, swathed ledy and went off to gael,
in furs! Το
tenants
д
bewildered, hopplly- weeping Will, the family un- Councils and folded the tale. In the last days come of the war when the Welshuhas and go, but the led from the Soviet Zong, Frau GOES ON
"Battle of the W's brother had arrived from Cutteslowe Walls" goes on like America and set, her up with a rome raucous parody on Tenny knitting machine. he son's brook.
marked the turning point for It all started back in 1934 the Welshuhns, now the owners when the town council slapped of A textile factory with a workers' housing estate on the employees. fringes of the upper-crust re- Son Horst thrust under Will's sidential urea.
quivering nose more proof of the Promptly, the upper-crust Welshuhn's goldon
Chief white
for
It
had
nge....an
of YOU'RE WRONG. DEAD The
DELANEY, By Bant VALUE
money, and the grip rliual Atclean of Singer. Collins, 9%. 6d. customs are a deadly combina 253 pages.
tion. Far too deadly for un- BATTLE OF
Ramolefane, BANT SINGER, Mr Collins's suspecting Isaac
contender for the Litle of whom Chief Mopeli Mohale THE WALLS Cheyney's A spot of torture
an had evidently successor, Australian newcomer combining ritud killing. Hammer 1N definitely the quickness, tension, toughness Isaac's brother Molatoll coarser operator of the two. He and sex with rather more in- told bates crime the police, poll- telligence than Splliane allows accepted ticions, Communists; and he is readers, and with rather less offer of £80, payable in likes shouting people. He can- lickness then Cheyney allowed instalments, to hand over Isane not resist describing exactly himself.
so the chief could kill him. how they look after they are You're wrong.
Molatoll testified that Delaney has
Mohale shot and, if he has a foible, it the disadvantage of an
first
gave him is for shooting men in the eye: Euhinumble setting (Australian powder 05 "medicine"
a thick brick wall long advert plecard showing a row of "The other eye that was still
brother Isaac, who, the
chier built own); Singer overcomes "mall
the "border", forcing the council nifty feminine legs all wearing there glared at me balefully,"
He aisu Ukes killing women an effective
it by recording a man-hunt in sald, wouk! behave in an
tenants to make a long detour Welshuhn stockings. variation of hard- usual manner after taking it. (naked for preference). This boiled, ha
half-broken
Isaac did. He took blankets cut to the main road. proclivity has led some of his ex., he regards the word
from the family kroal and Four years later, the council severer erlijes
them into a stream. rent out a steam-roller to knock SUR to charge him superfluous; the reader wants to loseed with sadism.
being it down. The upper-crust took use the word. let him it it in Isaac disappeared after In his latest saga, Kiss Me for himselt. With a couple of sent for by the chief, returned them to court-and won. The Dendly, Hammer falls to shoot nest twists at the finish Singer later deranged mentally.
council bullt the wall again. A woman.
Then later, As Spillane
Then,
came the war, and army has rounds off a terse jobs in a well-
chlet again sent for Isaac who tenks lately become a Jehovah Wit- defined pattern. nats, this might have argued for
WAY found
R dead afterwards trapped by the wall. Down Without the polish of Chey- the softening influence
crashed. A few months later, ney, he gets along with legs with his face mutilated. new creed,
Maybe butchery than Spillane.
it was up once more at the dancing there. Nobody but
of local thugs couplo However,
Dlchard Aus- expense of the War Office. the last page, Singer has on
niche of his own BACK TO
waltzed up behind her, beat her. Hammer sets a woman (nokes, waiting.
trian soldiers MOTHBALLS
This week, the counell pulled over the head and stole her of course) alight. He had pro-
have been its trump card: It will use its handbag. WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED vocation. Sticking a pistol into
London Express Service.
rapped over the knuckles by legal powers to force compul-
of the
Fun At The Fair
WE'LL BET THE CLOSEST POP GETS
-TO-THE-MIDWAY- WILL BE MIDWAY BETWEEN THE NEEDLEWORK AND THE PRESERVES,
HERE'S WHERE THE FUN BEGINS — BY THE TIME THEY BATTLE IT OUT, IT WILL BE TIME TO GO HOME
COME ON-IF YOU
ARE INTERESTED IN PATCH-WORK WELL GO LOOK AT
THE QUILTS!
HEGIRLY
GIRLY
REVUES
4
month
·
un-
the
on manoeuvre
BY HARRY WEINERT
THE SIGN SAYS
IT'S. A
POLAND
CHINA-/
THEY CAN'T FOOL ME →→→
THAT MOUNTAIN
IS A PIG/
LE
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For London University
Christine gradoa.e Knowles, a sentimental PONT
Journey. Midnight 'and moonlight on the nursery-s027!!~ were famous bridge at Avignon.
But this time nobody
WDB
who
Dailuaioned, Christine made her way to the railway depot next day to pick up her bag.
"But, pardon, madame, your friends lifted it for you early this morning."
The thieves, ransacking her handbag had found the left- luggage ticket
For Christine Knowles every- thing was definitely "outes en wrong."
MODERN TYRANTS Graz, Austria, Were outanged when they saw Images of Hit- ler and Mussolini loering down- on them from the walls of the City Parish Church.
Church-goers in
They calmed down only when the priost explained that it was Church custom to portray - historicul characters in Its art, and that artist Albera Bircle had included the erst- while tyrants as symbols of the anti-Christ 111 * Crucifixion scene.
Explained artist Bircle: #T wanted to draw a parallel be tween the persecution of Christians, in old and modem times."
HE SPRINGS FOR THE BEST SEATS IN THE GRANDSTAND – AND EVERY TIME
THE AERIALISTS DO THEIR STUFF,
SHE HIDES HER HEAD.
"THAT NAG COULDN'T WIN
A HEAT ON A
MERRY-GO-ROUND.
A TWO-BIT WAGER AMONG FRIENDS.
AND THE HEAT'S ON
COM. 193 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. 11-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
9-6
WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE WON „A BASKET OF GROCERIES
WHILE YOU
WERE AT IT?"
A MAN 'WINS A DOLL, A CANE AND A *GEN-U-WINE' INLAID PEARL ""LAMP AND THINKS HE MADE AN INVESTMENT-UNTIL-
"MY B’LOON
IS LOSTED.
CITY SLICKERS
"THAT'S THE
THIRD ONE
WHICH WILL
GET LOST FIRST-
THE KIDS OR
YOU-
OR YOUR. PATIENCE ?
HERE Y'ARE
THE WORKS*
IF THEY GAVE PRIZES FOR GUSTATORY PROWESS THE KIDS. SHOULD GETʻA; BLUE RIBBON - OR A STOMACH PUMP.
NINETEEN YEARS
LATE
Naples Court of Appeal decided last week that barber Carlo Corbisiero didn't kill two cattle dealers in 1934.
The decision came 13 years after the real murderer con- fessed his gullt to a
Catholic
priest When the killer was executed by the Nazis B8- hostage in 1943, the priest de vealed the confession to the Judicial authorities,
Ever since, the courts have been mulling it over while Corbisiero has been serving his life sentence.
When he was released he had in his pocket $18-money 'ha carned by shaving his fellow Inmates for 10 years."
.NEXT TO GODLINESS
the right to
the
It was, the old, old squable about who has use the bathroom, when and for how long. But this time, aboard oteamship Dwarka, It took a tragle tuan. In the crows' quar tera
tempers were high. Bider had been taken in a quarrel over the use of the bathroom. Buddenly knives Mashed.
of
Within only 20 miles Karachi, fighting broke out. Deck passengers tried to breake it up.
When the salp berthed three at the crow lay dead of knife wounds, two Bomall and man-In- Bat Several,,; passengers had been injured.