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WHO The
Soviet Central
CARES? Asian Lepublic of Kirgiz has adopted m new speling sys.cm-its fourth in 30 years.
Western.
in MISERY LIKE
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Mr. MAUGHAM'S
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by George Malcolm Thomson
THE MAUGHAM ENIGMA, babies into the world. Wanting
Edited by Klaus W. Jonas, Pator Owen. 151. 217 pagos.
N
The
his eightieth birth- 0
01
£300 to buy presents for a girl, he wrote his first novel, "Liza of Lambeth." By the time it had carned the money he had for-
Some of the articles gathered in "The Maugham Enigma" are American anecdotes dating from this wartime stay. Those who think Maugham rarely betrays feeling will be surprised by the moving last section of his speech when handing over one uf hila manuscripia to the Library of Congress in gratitude for America's hospitality.
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of one who but Ands it
the threshold of gotten the girl.
Writing steadily (three hours Normally his writing is taut In 1024, they took over
day, Somerset Maug day), and persisting in spite and competent in conformity
of failures ha became
resolve a with its owner's wary Arabic alphabet, only to scrap
ham looks back, with an fashionable playwright, master not to be caught in the wheels it five years later in favour
life: the style the Latin because it was air of detached unhappi- of artificial comedy and highly- of
спе
"It's may
be brilliant By 1941, ness, on "mor:
considerable polished epigrams, e.g., !
not the politics were gelling a little hot achievement. He has writ- that make a good husband, but
saven deadly virtues hard to be great. and they tried the Russlati letters. They're sticking to It, but they've worked a unitorm spc.ling which will give a new look to most of the old words.
But hurdly anybody Most of the citizens of Kirgiz are literate tribesmen,
cares.
14
TOUGH The referee of mitch SPOT
in Italy be tween Novaro Torino thought fast when he saw hundreds of angry Novaro uns clustered around his dress- ing room.
ten 98 short stories, 18 the 300 pleasing amiabilities." Those who wish to see how
plays that he is willing to have remembered, another 12 which he would like to forget, and 18 novels.
Of all the plays, "Our Bettera"
probably his best.
His books have sold 20 million copies. Hold to have made three-quarters of a away from the glittering wares
million pounds. He has the wealth that sweetens fame.
Some time after reaching the "Officials stipped him a police-age of eight, Maugham seems to man's amtorm and some grease have decided
that life offered pats, and he escaped under
little but misery to its children. disguise.
When
popular laste turned
in his theatrical shop-window, Maugham philosophically wrote novels like "Of Human Bond- ege" which, published in 1913, was selling 12,000 copies a year 38 years later,
Whether from a cool heart of
neur greatness Maugham Ca come will wasto no time on the ifttle-tattle of "The Maugham Enigma," but will reach for "Of Human Bondage" or-a 10 chosen by Maugham memorate his 80th birthday..... "Cakes and Ale."
bock
CUTZ)
One-Man Attack
ONE-MAN attack on Mount Everest kept secret for two yeurs is disclosed by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research a shy temperament, he kept in a new book "THE MOUN- elenr ct couses, enthusiasms TAIN WORLD, 1953," edited by As the years rolled by, life did and doctrines. It was sufficient Marcel Kurz (Allen and Unwin, little to disturb that judgment, to watch life with a tortured 265.).
he smile. He married (1917); was TOO In Geraldton, Northern Inoculated against illusion.
I was made by a Dane, R. B. all the better able WOS
to divorced 12 years later; has a SLOW Onurio, reporters have |
.finally
observe and ponder the conduct married daughter, He acquired Larsen, who entered Nepal and tracked down of men and women,
without However the
a misogynist Tibet reputation of the man who threw away
badly they behaved, they were without losing his reputation as April 1951. multi-millian dollar fortune in
unlikely to surprise, disappoint a misanthrope. He travelled
widely in the Far East where Without or captivate him.
Europeans behave like charac- iers in Maugham stories.
| the great Manitouwadge copper
strike.
and
On
the
Until he was eight he was brought up, as the youngest son
In u happy
in home In
the first
war he was
A
.
V
permission
white companion and with only seven sherpa porters he took u short sut across the valleys and mountains of Nepal.
He is Fred Bergquist, a tall, raw-boned, 200-pound Swede who staked out 15 claims, but of six, dkin' register them within the Paris, his mother a beautiful British agent in Russia, in the legat 30-day Hnilt.
L British agent In He was apparently going to thirty-first day, three other men young woman, his father a very second
the solleitor to the Amerten.
the Surprised by the attack ugly man,
mountain by the moved in
re-staked the British
Embassy First his Germen attack, he had left the South Col, the route taken by ground.
beloved mother, then his father, Riviera in a small collier with Sir John Hun, and his inen lust All three are now millionaires. died; Maugham went to 500 others. The
passengers had year. He was so discouraged by Bergquist told the
reporters England to discover how cruel been asked to bring food for heavy snow that he crossed u he didn't have the $75 necessary life can be to a small, lonely three duys; most
of them 10,000ft, pass Into Tibet to try to register the claim. He threw boy with a stammer.
brought it in bottles, and the it from the north side, the registration papers
to Gibraltar lasted Д Intending first to be a doctor, voyage
At the Rongbuk monastery, After this experience, ahe went to St Thomas's Hospi- week.
on 10 the starting point of the British whatever Maugham went other tal, where (with
prewar attempts, he was wel- misgivinga) he
63 United States. brought
Comca
by
who the monks, protected him from the Tibetan police.
stove,
But he has modest fortune Ands in the area.
since
0:1
in the
made
ان
Unsung Heroes
HE DRIVES HER ALL OVER THE MAP WHILE SHE DRIVES HIM CRAZY →LOOKING FOR A PLACE WITH
WKINGZZ
"THE HERO WHO GIVES
UP HIS OWN ROOM
AND "TREKS TO THE
ATTIC POLAR REGIONS
EVERYTIME A GUEST
OR IN-LAW IS VISITING.
"ATMOSPHERE,
"I DON'T LIKE THIS PLACE-
CHEAP CURTAINS." ~
Ye Olde LOBSTER
TRUP.
COME, 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES
COMP, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
+
"MOVE OVER, PAL /`
THE INNOCENT BY-SITHER
WHO PLAYS ALONG WITH,
THE REDUCING E SSCOMPLISN
BY HARRY
EMPTY AGAIN.
DRIVES
WEINERT
A MAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE-
AMONG OTHER THINGS.
HIS SHIRT HIS TIE
He climbed 5,000ft, up ftu ftungbult glacier and spent tour days at the site of the British Camp Three while his supplies were brought up.
On May 7 he attacked thy
Ji
2,000ft. snow-and-ice-covere:t North Col, Dick zuscronea pitching his tent on top at 23,000ft.
There his luck left him. His sleeping-bags could not keep out the wind. He had no cour- er to melt the snow or heat his food,
His sherpas saw what sort di expedition this was going to be. They left him there,
Tho Dane had to
follow
the sherpas down. He then pàd to get out of Tipet and Nephi es
quickly as possible.
He force-marched basic along the route he,bad come by. he had not climbed the moun- Lain ho had become the first to attempt it from Lo north by starting from the south.
الانا
Who is Larsen? The Swire Foundation wants to know. The story leaked out through Pro- fessor Krenek, of Darjeeting.
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