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"That's all very well- but can he skate!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954.
By HAL
BARBS COCHRAN
TS hard to tell-guif is either good for the wind, or only long, talkers play golf.
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on to much speed way to meet
Putting attend is a good with reversex, '
The tax collector is a fellow who can make any business pay
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When two tive cheaper than one they feel that way.
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Chestnut season is here again. Whose are you pulling out ol the Are?
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Uniforms (8),
2 Army rank (8).
3. Avid (4).
4 Treachery (7).
5 Witherow
Dodges (6).
from 17.
Bombard (5)
14 Dore witness (8)
15 Props (8).
16 Grant (7).
17 Protects (7).
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CROSSWORD: Across: 3 Scum, 7 Pined, a
Agog. 9 Mars, 10 Denotes, 12 Sharts, Mruls, 21 Class, 22 Romp, 23 Elste, 26 Belt, Rare, 31 Visu, 32 Plain, 33 Peer.
A chafing dish is just another name for a stuck-up frying pan.
Politiciona niways plan to name names, and then wind up by calling them.
Statisties ghow that the over- who leaves horne is Be girl about 15. The average who stays home is post 80.
Why is it that mutha never anake the mistake of eating a patch?
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An Ohio detective caught two crooks when they thought he was drunk and tried to rob him. Didn't know he was unloaded.
An educator
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says that most of us are smarter than we think.
Try to convince your wife!
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The average dream lasts Ave seconds, according to a doctor. Even with all the new types off make-up?
Asking
of women # Group who is the eldest is the same as calling for silence.
What you don't know huris you most when you try to tell 1.
A scientist make a noise We've heardt too.
says that plants while growing. that children do.
It's a wise Woman who asks for what she can't have so she can compromise on what wants
A mattedl
Was the Doctor's journey The Savoy
(alone in a boat for 65 days without supplies)
really necessary?
THE BOMBARD STORY, by Dr Alain Bombard. Andre Doutsch. 12s. 6d. 214 pages.
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ID Dr Bombard have to go? He is an intrepid determined and Frenchman, with a well- developed scientific curiosity. the It drove him to cross
rubber Atlantic alone in dinghy with no food or water on board, save only a sented box of emergency rations, which the doctor did
not open.
£1
He also took with him on his a collection remarkable voyupe of literary classics and the score and 17 of two Buch Passions Beethoven quartets. As it turn- ed out he had little time and iesa inclination for reading.
10 watch was more exciting
as frigate birds and dolphins they hunted flying Ash in part- nership.
RAW FISH
by
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
But if the Izzi-
THE BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI, Michener, By James A.
Socker and Warburg. 76.
6d. 136 pages.
JOURNALISM with
x-
ori
they collected. Hodgendarn-van der Slat
already proved periment had it could be done it does not, of course, detrnet from the cour- age and endurance of Dr Bom- bard any more than it
shes the absorbing Interest of his story.
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By J. W. TAYLOR
good a
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OINCIDENTAL to the night,"
"perfectly sale, recent Savoy Hote! their movement sinoath, rapid
ann pleasant," a sense of
shure dispute is Sir
The Savoy has always been mission; fletion with its eye Compton Mackenzie's latest noted for its cuisine ever since
an over- book current events:
"The Savoy of Lon- the days when D'Oyly Carte set simplified view of the world; don", from the pen of one
of its over-dramatised version people-apply these qualities to who appreciates the
(or maybe half- things of life and has an Imaginary
episode dimin Imaginary),
from the wide knowledge and keen Korean war and you have The Insight of the London social Bridges of Toko-lit,
Vital to Cominunist
supply scene. This story of one of the most famous hotels in the world, from its rise 64 they
yours ago up to the present time, mukes fascinating reading.
salt fish and
After all, w
And for less subsist on. water, are hard enough to swat- low,
of gloomy there was no lack prophets when Bombard set off from Monaco on the first leg of his trip.
PREPARATIONS
It
An expert in life-saving told wife. "You will the doctor'
again. never see your husband
fle is Insufflelent preparations!
at sen going to be six weeks and be dons not even have n chamberpot."
In the end, Bombard crossed the Atlantie from the Canaries at diet of salt to Barbados 05 water and raw fah, I look just 65 days and he lost fair stone in weight. But did he really have to make the crossing?
He hart is wonderful story
the massively defended bridges raust be challered. Jel bombers of the U.S. carrier Savo are assigned the desperate task, Michener tells their story
hard, slangy idiom: graphi
11 in its truculent way,
"Harry Brubaker,
Seventy years ago hard Carte spotted derelict
20-year- old lawyer from Denver, Color- D'Oyle odo, was alone in a pot he had land between the Strand and the Embankment and was mitudded to to defend in a buiti an hotel there that would never Intended war he had not understood."
is an The Bridges of Toko-ti
lack of against angry protest
of that
war On his monotonous diet, understanding
Among those who. unlike Bombard suffered from depres- slary: last his flogernails; the Brubaker, did not fight it. slightest bruise turned septle. CHURCHILL AND His most frightening moment came when he jumped
an inflated board to retrieve cushion and found that his men- ancher had fouled so that the
over-
she tell. He had drmonstrated that coy was salting as fast as he
jobs but he's always working for the sunse people. the wife and kirts!
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In the wilds of Mexien they hunt ŸL ነዳ with motor Maybe beenuse pedestrians are
scured.
Poltteja
hnd
UT the s may change
senlife truth that there fre 200 times 4
many livink organisms in a cuble fool of sea as in the same amount of earth. He hatt disproved the sacient legend that men who drink salt
He water go raving mad. found that human beings, like whales can ward off
by scurvy adding plankton to their diet.
But could not the doctor have by found all these things out
and living on staying at home fish nd salt water for
couple Thal themantha”
sard, would not impress future # castaways in the same way an irtual ocean crossing with- But that is out food supplies. not the end of the story PREDECESSORS
seldom write their
possibly be- mervoirs, cause they're afraid they'll mts- quote themselves.
When
2 warmlugs ground her husband walks on a may cover a lot of territory when hunting seasoit is on.
Bolgals devote a great simul of time to cell life while crim- hal courts devute too httle.
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Add similes: as miserable is near-sighted onion peeler.
Getting credu where credit is The trouble due is not so bad. comes when the credit
15 Seums, 18 Pert, 19 30 29 Averted, Down: Liken, 2 Reposes,
duc.
24 Large, 25
4 Chasm, 5 Mass, Coma, 9 Mert, 11 Tere, 13 Heap. 14 Mess. 16 Smote. 17 Scub, 18 Pali, 20 Emerald, 22 Rave, Devil, 27 Exit. 28 Trap.
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Some elgarette lighters parently were made for people who don't smoke,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE TYPE OF NO-SHUT-EYE
DUE TO CLEANING OUT
THE REFRIGERATOR.
YAKITTY-YAK-YAK
A NIGHT OUT WITH THE BOYS HAS BEEN
KNOWN TO BRING ON INSOMNIA,
"DO YOU
KNOW MY
POP?
READ ME A
STORY/
SOMETIMES IT IS DIFFICULT TO SLEEP IN A STRANGE BED — ESPECIALLY AFTER. SIX A.M.
swim.
Florb's Concerto
Cine
go one better than the next best in the world. By August 1889, the Savoy Hote! had been built and opened and was a wonder to all who saw and beard about it. For one thing, it wes storeys high, most unusual HIS! feature. Edit-
CONTEMPORARIES. ed by Charles Eade. Hut builder by demanding the chinson. 251. 528 pages.
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walthy London society into dining out more at He therefore en- restaurants.
រប gugod, Arst
alvest the retaurant, but oventually to control the whole of the Savoy, the famous Cesar Ritz. He
171 turn engaged Escoffier na chet de cuisine, and the two laid the foundations of the Savoy's pination for good food. Bacter mwented Linzus dibes, including Peh Melba, after the famous singer. History relates that one night Melba gave a party #: the Savoy and suggested pechen Hambtes to finish off the meal. She was a self-willed who usually had her way, no bestied a temperamental artist the basking in perpetually warmth of public affection.
many the
woman
E:coffer, however, had also a will of ls own, and so far as his domain was concerned, his word was law. She could have
but not hot. peaches, would be served with e.com or they were.
They Ice-
And to the author entertain- ingly dweils on Savoy days, past and present, and sketches
cavalcade of celebrated the habitues, as sparkling as characters themselves, through the years of peuch and of two wars. The Savoy happily sur- bomb hits und blasts shocks during the last war.
PARADE
D'Oyle Carle astonished the in- clusion of seventy bathrooms, and the latter could not restrain en CHARLES EADE had
theruruiry as to whether amphibians miracle dis:
good idea of pattering into were going to stay there, pointing shipwrecked sailors need never engaged the anchor to me.
und out that the ush Victoial Hotel. volum ancedutes their despair but should keer
After 53 days, the deelor met
opinous ef Winston Churchill built two years before at a cost spirits on by reflecting
Liverpool merchant ship and
from the men who have known of half a million, had only four be learned to his horror that
him at different periods.com/bathrevens for its 500 guests, WAN 000 miles short of ats
Harrow School onward and position. AL extimated
that
vlved Quite a darlag feature at the moment, he nearly threw in his see him in diferent a pects:
Hitler Birch-ceny."Savoy was the introduction GI hund.
feci # disgust
for this type olcotric light
throughout the a deep However. After a hot meal
of unscrupulous politician," etc. hotel. D'Öyle Carte being (which
The worst gave him
Skinwell, the political oppon-prompted in this by his wife, a he pains of the whole voyage) set out again, leaving with the ent recalling him elf every few woman who had taken a degree captain a request that the BBC sentences to the duty of criticat London University, but never- theless liked to see the art of liv- man he manliestly likes. phony should Brandenbunt
Roosevelt, the urch friend-ing made as easy and comfortable possible. Visitors were told Christmas Day
He has a hundred ideas a day
"was so that the light switch of which at least four are guod,“
that the light can be Mes Thompson, personal secre- piacej tary: "He cannot tolerate paper urned on or off without one hav- clips and he simply abominates ing to get out of bed."
It was one of the most com- plis."
fortable and elegant hotels in the From many Impres ions some-world, eventually to become a thing like a portrait emerges. London's
leading hostelry. alike by kings, PLAYWRIGHT AT WORK. patronised
the famous princes, millionaires. By John van Druton and not su famous, and the heavy particular loathing for the bull-
123.N Hamilton, Hamish
responsibility of catering for there was the least of the
Not 6d. 210 pages.
to be borne by on anxieties
by on TF in were possible-but it is not always impercable management, When D'Oyly Carte Installed to learn how to write plays
But, this week, the rondmen's by taking good advice, what an hydraulic lifts at the Savoy, they Important book this would be!
were not quite a novelty, but deep-throated laughter floated
across the island. Full of sense about the drama, were regarded with some
appre- The visitors hension.
were It will recall to public memory the once-British author assured that the lifts, ready for Young Woodley.
use "ot all hours of the day und
y teוות:
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Dr Bombard's experiment had already been made, although
In 1943 not voluntarily. American patrol boat in the South Atlantie picked up a smull boat with three turpedoed sail- ors, Dominic Izzi (U.S. citizen). Nick Hodgendum und Cornelius van der Slot (Dutch).
They had been for 67 days (two more than Dr Bombard) without food, except the fish and birds they cought and rainwater
"THERE'S AN
INDIAN IN THE
ROOM
INSTINCTS
This the UBC duly did, but by that time Bombard was ashore Un the Islandi of Barbados, where the welcome committee on the bench quickly proved that the acquisitive instincts of the old wreckers are atil alive. Bombard, self-murooned on desert island in the smallest history, had survived his ordeal and quickly recovered weight, The story of his voyage cheer- ful, without excess of modesty, with a soft pedal on the grim- iner side, is an excellent
on to the true Adventure in the stories which, following
have wake of Kon-Tiki,
been so justly successful.
Insomnia Blues
"THAT INDIAN IS YOU,
MINNIE HA-HA...
YOU'RE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR."
TV OR DOUBLE-VISION INSOMNIA. THE RESULT"
OF WATCHING
TOO MANY LATE LATE SHOWS.
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COPR. 1941 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
"WHERE DID YOU GO ?
A SHOW...A NIGHT CLUB: ..
DANCING ? TELL ME -
MC.
ETC.
JEEPERS/ CAN'T YOU WAIT TIL MORNING ?
INSOMNIA CAUSED BY ROOM-MATE WHO FRESH AS A DAISY AFTER, POUNDING
HER EAR FOR HOURS, AS AN
addi-
of
BY HARRY
EVERY BODY
UP FOR THE
SQUARE DANCE,
LET'S GO!*
WEINERT
COOKING UP A BAD CASE OF INSOMNIA.
FOR THE FOLKS
* DOWNSTAIRS.
INSOMNIA INDUCED BY JARTIFICIAL
MEANS. OCCURS
ONLY ON SCHOOL DAYS.
GALLOPING INSOMNIA, MOST ATTACKS OCCUR AFTER READING REPORTS OF H:BOMBS STRIKE, AND PROSECUTION OF INCOME-TAX CHISELERS.
OLD SLOWPOKE where it's nice to lean on a shovel In the warm sunshine, they have little
mechanical use for. monsteri,
Dwa in Jamaica,
And the road menders have a
lozer and the steamroller. One the work of a of each can do score of men and jobs are tough to find.
Giant bulldozers, currying to finish the new "Queen's High- way," were just too big for the Job. They broke the back of a bridge, a vital link in the main traffic artery.
BOOM Mik :als in Copelown TIME ure scoring.
out kind
The dairies have turned am-re, non-fattening in four colours with flavourings and sugur added.
Adults and children alike are queuing for it.
Gerrard Glouster,
DETECTIVE OUT-DETECTED 30 year - ald self-styled "king of detec-. tives" is languishing in the local gool In Ferrand, France.
Glosglor ect up 凸 COTTES- pondence coursa tr private detectives; enrolled 300 house- wives, factory workers and even piano tuners at £11 a throw.
But the court found him guilty of fraud and sentenced him to 10 months. Here is a sample of his doctrine:
"Wear falsc boards and other diagulses. To prove adultay, inke photo of the couple in bed with a calendar over the bed showing the date."
The court just didn't think onybody ever slept under calendar.
EVERY
DOG.
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Dopey the fox terrier, way 21. His mistress, Mra V. H. Young, of Durban, thought that was quite something- cquivalent to a human age of 147.
So Dopey got a birthday pre- senta big cake crowned with 31 sausages. Ho wolfed the lot in a twinkling.
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COSSARD THE Eugene Cos
Bard was BO CONNOISSEUR
efficient as A plumber's male that he was promoted full rank and allowed to work on his own.
But householders began to complain..
Buzme spent all his time in the cellars looking for leaka and never found any, ..
Last week Paris police found. out why. Eugene was busy sampling the wine, They re- ported that he was a real con- nollenze. After tasting them all, she took, 'only, the best, JA, court sent him to, guoi-Jon