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PORTSMOUTH ARCHBISHOP thriller writers produce two London says that 800 crime in startling detail, the effect that To
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It won't wash
Mr Huxley thinks that thin drug or something like It may be the thing we are all waiting
for.
.
What dangerous, cranky, John Creasey claims that
rubbishy talk this fal Can you the thriller is also an im-
Imagine us swimming to our portant British export to
Apparently Mr Nichols offices through a haze of visions, seeing sometimes with the eyes Europe. There, only the was set down one foggy of the prophetle poet Blake Belgian Georges Simenon night at Lyons Airport, sometimes with the mind of the and the Norwegian Axe! He was right in the city mad artist Van Gogh? Kleland have made their centre, asking for the
crime mark де
writers. Champs-Elysees, before he Apart from these two, realised that Lyons wasn't says Creasey, all Con- Paris. tinental crime stories are by Anglo-Saxon authors, in translation.
The popularity of the common or gallows thriller is on the increase. A leading lending library in
Life Expectancy Rise Ending
A New York doctor belleves that unless medical men dis- new methods, they are COVET nearing the limit in increasing Iffe expectancy.
the
At once," say Mr Nichole, "I decided to write
a detective Blory."
Alus, it needs more than a will of steel and a nice new line in private eyes to achieve this ambition.
I don't think that's going to help us to keep the home free, burning.
-“Tho' answer most probably that the development of the Port for national defence was due to its geographical location and its harbour Find
facilites, but a document Just une ribed from
Xbrary the
Storerooms answers
This
the
that 1610,
Portsmouth WHY "more favourable and better affected. to Mars and Neutune than to Mercury, that is, to war rather than to trame"
Camden gives a "chorographi- description of the most Hourishing kingdoms; England, Scotland and Ireland," and de- votes a chapter on "Hantshire." There is a 'reference to “people flitting into the faland of Portsey about 14 miles, being at every which taketh in circuit
full sea floated round with the
much
Nevertheless, the awful thingsalt waters, out of which they is that I should love to take boil salt, and by a bridge, that
hath a
a fortress adjoining it, in at a grammo of arth-tenths
united to the continent." mescaline-just once.
1.
Hair-raising
IN refreshing contrast comes Mr Nichols has indeed thought ON TOP OF THE WORLD of new and chorruing detec- My Adventures with my tive, Mr. Horatio Green, with a Mountain Climbing Husband by. highly developed sense of smell Patricia Petzoldt (Collins, 158). who sniffs his way happily from clue to glue.. But his plot
Mrs Petzoldt was a student at the University of Wyoming although I deeply enjoyed it as B straight novel-just won't when she fell in love with a wash as a work of detection. professional mountaineer. Over a bowl of a lemon drink and It's easy enough to belleve soup he told her the story of that Mr Nichols could mistako his life. Then he went to stay Windsor, with the Dean of
to
П
This island Athelftede, King of Edgar's wife, had given to the new monastery of Winches ter, and in it, at the very gullet or mouth where the sea entereth in, our forefathers built a town and thereupon named it Ports- mouth, that is, the mouth of the haven-a place always in time of war well frequented, other wise there is little resort to it.” Mention is almost made that in those for off daya the soldiers kept werd "garrison
and watch both night and day at the gates." There is also
to reference
the county as "Hantshire"
and "Hamihire" and to Portsmouth's neighbour-
port
"Southanton." Ing Among
the maps disclosed is one of "Sussexic."
Dr Ferrin H. Long, Professor Lyons for Paris if he had just of Medicine at the State Uni-got out of an acroplane. But you Then she married Potzpidt and
agree that a shared his perilous existence. me can't expect versity of New York, sald increase in the le span has regular Londoner would mistake
Portsmouth
Indeed, for King's road,
It is a hair-raising been achieved mostly through
Chelsea,
There Apart from anything one.
are wonderful the control of infectious disenges,
elag, Fertamouth smells quite ascents of mountains, magnic- But that method of preserving
different from London, Mr cently described, there are feat- OVERZEALOUS Ilte has, about been worked out, Nichole Mr Green would be the
India ful journeys across
In REFORMER Long wrote
first to point out.
third-class railway carriages, *. Medical Journal.
Life expectancy at birth has risen from 48:6 years in 1911 to 68.4 years in 1951,
in
the
Illinois
"It appears quite clear," Long nald, "that we have almost reached the maximum of in- crease in life expectancy which can be gained by control of in- fectious processes.
"in 1951,
{
No, no, Mr Nichols, it won't
What a pity." quite do.
But just the same, I hopo you stay among these criminal alleys and don't go creeping back up the Garden Path.
Cranky talk
Some
Gaston
Ribaux,
half-blind
49-year-old reformed Porii Into was slapped drunkard, pokey last week-because he tried to lead too many of his fellow citizens down his `ibotny
Finally, there is an episode where her husband, who has become Involved with quarrelsome health cranks, tries to defend one of them from 'an- | path. other is actually tried for Gaston would settle himself murder.
69 In a bar beside a solitary drinker buy him a drink, and announce; "You are killing yourself with alcohol:""
To prove it, he would put a powder into his guest's glass.
the The powder was doctors had used to CUTO Gaston of his bad habits, Bút Gaston always poured in 10
Apparently Mrs Petzoldt de- cided to write this, book when she was snowed' up' for six HUXLEY'S THE weeks in a shack in Wyoming at 418 the temperature (Chatto & Windue, Ox.) descritjes, degrees below freezing point.
* 14
about
20
21
percent of deaths occurring in A DOORS OF PERCEPTION with
LDOUS
but
individuals under 18 years, were due to infections."
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HERS A
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UFF
times the "safe" dose.
one
Polled caught up with him after 20 "converts had been carried off to hospital in agony,
WORKED Bank clerk Lucien
* Beaudouin sadly OUT
admitted in Paris 'that he will have to find-a-new- hobby.
He has spent all his spare time for the last 14 years build- ing a scale model of the French cruiser Dunkerque, out of matchsticks,
Three feet long, it is com- ploto
revolving turret, cranes and Anished. And
lights. Now Lucien sila - around the house (mournfully wondering what to do. next. He is 00, and this doom't think he'll have time to
With
finish another warship,
ON THE.. Paris police had a SCENTA rare catch last
weak. They figure they've got
got the world's oldest con man under lock and key,
They described him thus: Name: Alexander Niclayer. Age: 100. Address: Uncertain but usually in the lush playboy country in the south of France.
Alexander claims to be an ex-Czarist general, and says he runas perfume factory, Ro présenting himself
aged and respectable perfumler. he took orders from a string of beauty shops, v
Follce got on the scent when the beauty shop owners claimed they hadn't received any.
DEVIL'S
WORK
Italy's pickpockets are getting religion A-And their seeming
conversion-fa, a matter for alarm
rather, ihan rejoicing' Felergy/
not for madifation:
In short, the
premeditate