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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1954.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
Ardrid
That's what I always
Paris
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meant danger
... to the modest buccaneer
THEN St. Malo was rotakon by the Americans and Its German garrison of 85 hud surrondered, the town, with its historic treasures, utterly destroyed,
WILA
the of
BOOKS
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dian filibuster of the reign Poking about among
Louis XIV, Captain ruins, the scholarly M. Louis-Adhemar-Timotheo le
local architect, Golif. Hemar,
fallen masonry. Inside were three battered manuscript volumes (824 pages) which, to his delight, proved to be the memoirs of a West in-
came upon An old trunk, M. Hemar showed his find to half-burned and crushed by M. Alaux, un artist,
who carried the precious volumes off Paris and called in M 'Sersteves, a novelist, to help ไป in the work of edlung. M. Ainux cut down tedious accounts of naval actions and Improved the M. t'Senstevens apolling.
Indulged in further amputations with the pitiless surgery of the professional mind."
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE AUNTS AND UNCLES TELL HER IN A HOPELESS VOICE THAT THEY HOPE
SHE'LL BE HAPPY.
former were scarec among the buccaneers, Aayo only among
We
PARADE
Alfred
the English who, being heretics. TO THE Tho shipwrights of necessary paris built right into Britain discovered the frame. The nearness of the abnormally "Iascivious. | WOODS
last week that the microphone to the ear, it is le Golf in tha "How." noks gust, can one remain on good wheel had gone full cycle. They claimed, gives greater offlelency.
Not only
were right back where hoy Built-in batteries have a life of terma with heroikes?"
in King and started
the more than 300 hours. did they pillage churches
Great's daya
Experience building
has shown molest monks, but they insisted
deafness can speedily having the better part of the wooden ships again. provisions for themselves.
age, it cyonlight, and vice versa. aims at preventing The famous pirate Teach or
trouble. Blackbeard (a Nonconformist) would have found little favour with
French his
confrere. Would he have tolerated Cap-
Kidd (Presbyterian)? seems doubtsui,
Inin
It
Even in the atom seemed, the Navy could not get aid by without its wooden-walls.
that affec
This
such
•
In
Zoo
London
Guy
the
Gorll-
ning weighing 18
The Lord of the Admiralty, Mr J. P. L. Thomas, told the GUY Worshipful Company of Ship- DISLIKES wrights at a formal luncheon of CAMERAS the Navy's plan to revert to material for wood as building its coastal and Inshore mine- sweeping squadron,
Modern magnetle-type mines, this necessary.
The last section of his story makes sedder reading. After killing and robbing so minhy
ho
cx- naturally Spimlarks, pected roward or naval com-he said, made
He Ch mand from his king. celved neither.
his Going to Paris to presa THAT HORSE The Trojka cnn, he was robbed by tls-
ACAIN
Horse is enun- creants, who promised him an
Ing trouble nuclience with the king. He
agnin-in Rome,
American concluded that Paris was more
Bun director dangerous than the Caribbean
Robert Wise has decided he the French and, when
navy doesn't like the 20-foot wooden suffered a series of defents, had
horse designed by Italian no need to look far for the ex-
He is carpenters.
planning to have a special team come from plunation.
and boastful. Hollywood to make the Brutal, lurid And
wild exaggerations, for the new picture "Helen of filled with could
lles and Course Troy." downright comedy, the memoirs of this But Italian Jabourers say French buccaneer are an elo- they will go on strike
tribute to the literary quent skill of le Golf and his editors.
declares-and his
be
His surgery spared numerous incidents whien minorous brought a gentier note into the buccaneer, sombre lite of the Nothing, he word
accepted-win added to the narrative. It may
said that, in colour warmth, le Gour's story hardly be excciled by the most picturesque piece of Aetion.
Although
parish registers reveal no traco of le Golf's existence, he emerges from his own story as a vivid and forth- right personality.
Overcoming a "modesty when is on the first.of my talura Virtues," he admits to be the foremost man in attack, the best the Anericor, swordsman1 endowed with "Tuy which From one side of the Caribbean Sea to the other was a weapon than the largest more feared cunnon or the Lord God's own. | Thunder,"
Was bul
Born about 1840, he educated for the Church, had the misfortune to get with daughter of a local Monseigneur the Bishop "was pleased to see i this that my calling was not as cerinin as could be desired."
child 'the Hinen-draper.
Lako
Hunger drove him to work is an indentured labourer in a Santo Domingo plantation, from which he fled to join the buccaneers, unable to endure his treatment by a brutal employer. The murder of this wretch is
ກ described with
unde WES he squeamishness. First, forced to blaspheme and then thus ensuring was butchered; that his departure from
coincide with world would
arrival in holl.
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SURPRISE,
Three
SURPRISE
Becker
horse
it he
years and nine months ago,
hove fun
Onions
arc
nolice
and years old
liken to stone,
cat he likes to
hin and bad for warns visitors not to feed them to him. But there is no notice telling them about Guy's latest has which he with prank caught many a photographer.
When Guy notices a camera
with
water. anouth he Alla his Then he poses no sedutely close ne the of Guy #
up to the bars, but
out clicks camera mouth comes a stream of water,
Not many have taken
plcture-most
Guy's
ex- an water Jet drenched for
have collent study of a
and have been
their pains,
has
de-
Schalde
WELCOME History was made
lost
iho week in STEP:
age-old battle be- tween the guardians of Britain's
official
self- morals.
and constituted, and the publishers.
Up 38-year-old Ante
to now the same yard- stick set of on her horse
been used to .. A Villa in Summer. By
Furio to ride the 17,000 mile termine the obscenly content of Mortimer. Michael
novels serious
anct from Buenos Aires to Ottawa. Penelope
d. 270 Jopoph. 12s.
pages
.did the publication The other day she arrived postcards...did Young married love and young after a world-record-breaking in question tend to deprave and
in
corrupt the reader or viewer? married Jealousies occurring ride.
stretch of English A typical
The streets were lined countryside, where the mansion choring citizens, is in the clutches of #
But the cheers Kressive school and the toca}
her, Sir Winston Churchill ar- pub is full of Alm directors in rived the same hour. search of the Soul of Britain. Mark down for your pleasure a first novel both sensitive and witty
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with
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Not unnaturally this enraged writers and publishers alike.
D
LOVELY When the name of
Misa Cook
trying was ANKLES
10 called
receive
•• Tha White Desert. By arst prize in a Lovely Ankles John Glaever. Chatto and competition at a Bedhampton Windus, 259, 304 pages, The (Hampshire) church fete, Mr J. account of 15 men's lives during Cook stepped forward.
He had borrowed his wife's two summers and winters in the Antarelle. A risky but success nylons and shoes, and with 24 ful experiment in adaptability and women stood behind a international co-operation. Gia under which only ankles ever's expedition was composed | visible.
f British, Norwegians and
The judges disqualifed Swedes. Amity reigned under and the the snow.
• No. But I Saw the Movie. By Peter de Vries. Gollancz, HEAR, HEAR 12s. 6d. 248 pages.
Vries TECHNIQUE
WOB
this
his
of
Unlike most gentlemen fortune, le Golif had no love of gambling. but devoted hig leisure to women and wine. The
Kissing The Bride
JUST A WORD OF ADVICE-YOU HAVE TO SHOW 'EM FROM THE START
THAT YOU'RE
THE BOSS /
EVEN IF YOU ARE AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY,
BE REASONABLE — DON'T HOLD UP THE TRAFFIC.
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ONE OF THOSE
SINCERE SALUTATIONS
WITH
SOUND EFFECTS.
MACK
WITH SOME MEMBERS OF THE
WEDDING THE BRIDE HAS
TO REVERSE THE
PROCEDURE,
COM, 1954 BY GENUAL FEATURES
COLF, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
Dutch
screen
Д
ut
And, they argueil, too often the wrong wus in the mind of the readers, something no writer or publisher could allow for.
Last week Mr Justice Stable.
well-known firm publishers
an vn
obscenity out of charge
the arising
novel, laid publication of new meaning before the jury:
First, that sex in itself is not necessarily evil; second, that it may be that an intelligent com-
la entitled to have of the way which it actually
Lives
third, that adolescents will and out about sex in any case and that high- priced novels aimed at Intelli-
adult readers gent
wore not likely to accelerate the process,
The jury agreed,
were recom
bim
to prize went
the
runner-up.
for
**Olasses hearing" this latest 12 the America, from
which
be psychologisis revolutionise tech- dentness treating
for
De brought up in a
Idea Calvinist community; now con- tributes to the New Yorker. He doctors and writes accordingly, Starting life love will
in niques inculcated belief with an Total Depravity, he has found and eye trouble. little in life
that to disturb
These special glasses have n dogma but enough humour to hearing aid complete with bul- microphone and All make it bearable.
BY HARRY
Leries,
WEINERT
MAKE IT SHORT AND
SNAPPY WITH
OLD FLAMES — THERE'S NO USE FANNING THE EMBERS:
A COUPLE OF ALSO-RANS.
BRIDE HAS 10 DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE.
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A HEADACHE NATO's head- FOR NATO
121
quarters Naples and Smyrna received an urgen week ciphered message a few ago informing them that the Third World War would break
out any moment.
The message was marked "Comic"
1
П
classificationA
several grades higher than "Top Secret." As NATO's informants had visualised it, the Soviet heavy cruiser, Admiral Nakhi- mov, would torpedo the Greck flagship
cruiser, EIN, IB the Gulf of Salonika. And on board the Elli were King Paul ut Greece and President Tito of
Süta Yugoslavia. They were ing from Athens to Salonika to watch there a spectacular Army march-past before Tito's return to Belgrade,
J
The
alort came from the Grock Admiralty. A top priority signal had reached them tron the cruiser Elli reporting that one cruiser and two destroyers of unknown nationality had been
horizon, sighted on the following the cruiser Fill.
It was immediately assumed that they were the Soviet war-
and
ship Adeniral Nakhlmov her two escort destroyers, which had, a few days earlier, Dardanciles Into crossed the the Mediterranean,
The Greck Admiralty im- mediately signalled NATO's Southern HQ to alert the 8th U.S. Fleet, since a Soviet at- tack against the Greek flagship would have meant: war"."
After taking all einargency measures the prudent officers of the Greek Naval Staff In- structed the Elli to proceed with the identification of the "suspect" vessels.
nows
It took several strained hours before all concerned heaved a sigh of relift when the came that the Soviet· cruiser turned out to be Marshal Tibo'a two warship, the Galeb, and Yugoslav destroyers which had been
to escorting the Elli Salonlleu
#
STONE William James Kelway DEAF Toms, of Wellington
in Somerset, made fortune out of his invention and manufacture of the. Zamous strlags, noted of topo, but he
amona hle customers from all over the world the cream of Internation-
#Tume"
for their
was stono
Ita
a) stringed Instrumentalists in aluding: Krolalar and Kubelli
left no will when he died
He left
recently but a
but a fortune of £91.- 142, almost half of which has gono in death duties,
No one knew his; nocent of making his violin, strings. began playing the violin, at ten. When deafness, 20 years later, spolled his future: usɛa; player ho began experimenting with the idea of perfecting violin and other steinige for," variety of instruments; He was 69 when