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THE CHINA MAİL," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1954. ́
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[POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
sex
"When i was a girl we might have had no instruction at school but frust we knew which
was which !”
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PARADE
A COLUMN Or the UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES. AND THINGS
for a girl, but a man has to bo kicked about by a lot of women before he knows his mind."
not written a line since 1997-be anid "I got tired of writing the same story over and over again."
OLD
Every Saturday or pefice, prosperity or crisis, it FAITHFUL night hundreds of has gone on the air every Satur- thousands of Bel- day evening for 21 years, and fona switch on their radios Jn in that time some of the Asiced why he retired-ho has time to pick up the strains of composer Erle Coates' "Knights- bridge" march. The music fides Into the background noises of Plecadilly Circus. A stentorian veles belowe "Stop!" And "In Town Tonight" is on the al
114c, prorsuming - Krathine consisting exclusively of interviews with newsworthy visitor to London—so much a part of the British way of life .bat even comedians inve stopied guying it.
But I has achieved “ኒ dis- #nelion won by no other indio programme in the nation.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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greatest figures in every sphere of life have stepped up to the misrephine to my why they have gone to London and what they think abṛut it now they'ro there.
Today (November 20) il cele- with bentra ita 21st birthday,
for every algn of currying on another 21.
EAST MEETS In Brussela WEST
niet
the heroes of Sovlet Sport the charms of Western Culture--and the For recently it was
Tesult verged given a fresh leare of life when the BBC deelded to present sintillaucously on TV and radio,
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War TRIALS OF A
TALL MAN
Here is
ate of a very
4
on chacs,
Mr Montagu's
Wives
● This wayward grandsón of a duke had four wives--- simultaneously--as well as a harem. But he was also
a diplomat and an outhority on Oriental languages .
by
M
in the swish Plaza Hotel, the stern-faced inen from Moscow's Spartak football club stood in the lobby with bouquets, walling for the traditional exchange of the flowers with their Belglan ponenta,
THE NEW BOOKS
George Malcolm Thomson
Portuguese vineyards,
R MONTAGU has n (4) To work for two years in
posthum.ou# grievance against publishers op-blography." It
Serica entitled
1
al man. Then down the marble stair Rogues' Gallery.
Peter HawES
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Kowns
one
and
of his Appears in Tho
опе
Now admittedly he was 31 wayward personality; something of a rover and no little of charlatan. But to cail him roque! It seems harsh.
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ani of
way camo three models--one Crtmwell Road, Peterborough blonde, one brunette, and 16 feet 6 inches and he knows redhead wearing off-the- all the amal que dons, spoken, thoulder
format and unspoken, about tall men. milles Peter sea then addressed him and answers them, but
muh
poilt ca he has had his visiting cards printed I am 78 inches high; E follows: 252 lb. in Wo ghit the prZDÁLE of size 14 feet. I m not; the cold la tallest man
world; The up here.
ICRC my taller a headache: like three good meals
One by
the Russians stopped, turned, and guzed with More undisguised admiration. mannequins arrived, ond nore stares followed.
Valtors.dy. ganizers footballers. Determinedly,
בילי
to tried
Rus
move
cr- the the
sportsinen stayed,
I
The organisers ordered
them
a day: make you look small. do not like: low doors; over to get their coats, The athletes shor blinds: single just grinned, nudged one 211- hading beds. These are stock quea- ouer and pointed. Lens," says Petc.. "Ary others
wintry
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HIDDEN
Buswer
MEANING
A
fascination
brains
Edward Montagu Wid ccccntrle English aristocrat the eighteen century, with more than balance. He had (simultaneously) four wives and (consecutively) three religions, He spent some time in prison and
that occasion, waa perhaps not so innocent as he cialmed.
מס
But he wis abo an MP. મ FRS, soldier who behaved tolerably well at Fontenoy,
diplomat (to his personal profit If not to his country's) and an eminent authority on Orientat languages.
At soventeen he married a Lorton jaundress named Sally, whereupon his mother her hands of him.
washed
Through the influence of his relative, Lord Sauowich, he got himself naned a secretary to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapellc, from which he returned cover- cd with diamonds and dripping with guinces. In thosa days, alplomacy was a business well as a profession.
Returning
自然
to a wild life in London, Montagu became the boon companion of a handco and fashionable. highway man named James Maclean, the sa of one Presbyterian muister mud the brother of another. Macasın, Imitating his social betters, nad * fat in S. James's opposite White's Club, and A love-aust tor hi girls 1.. Cholson. Al last he was caught and intɛden. to death (with half the members of While's lu me court, as apccintors),
Montagu, loyal friend, called vell, on him in the condemned where he found two wild, well- If he needed
born excuses for a
and lovely worth wero vagabond life, they could be
consoling the last days of the found in plenty. He came from Presbyterian outlaw: Carolli a divided home;
ot his heredity Lady Petershamn, daughter wits bad. ilta mother, Lady Mary the Duke of Gration; and Miss Wortley Montagu, was un Elizabeth Asho, believed by
bluestocking:
some to be the daughter of hijs high father, Mr Wortley, was a suc- royal princess: father unknown.
cessful miser. Today. Montag
MARRIAGE CEREMONY
Eventually, they were literally dragged away by the Party men, still looking backwards.
But not one of the mannequina -ол their
to a fashion way show--30 much as turned her head.
·
STATUS OF In the Vatican, MARTIANS DOncern, na ni-
wys
was with matters--really higher
for the hidden meaning behind upp renty skample facts prompts 1 Parts nowshound to report that according to the latest Agues. 23 out of every bundred Frenchmen still go to bed in a nightshirt, 20 wear a pyjama mutters this time.
The Roman Catholle full pyjama out, and tep, 40
has been pondering the official status of Martians assuming, that is, that there are any. Jesult Investigators have elded that Maruans don't come witam the jumadiction of Church.
15 nothing.
WISTFUL ARLEN
Michael Arlen, the society novelist of the Twenties. 13 visiting London. Since 1923 hr has made his home in the South of France and in America,
There's no one left in Lon- don for me to ring up now," he trid “Valustine. Ca feroze bas gone, Richard Girandey's gone, vid Freckle Lonsdale's gone,'
Arlen at 58, is as dapper us ever. But he has just had 1 major lung operation and can- hot risk going out in the cold. I'm not allowed to spoke," he told me (he used to go through 00 a day).
Church
THE HIGHWAYMAN
ocventrie
school; born in 1713, he should would be sent to an approved have been put into the Navy. But he was despatched to West do-minster School, where he was
consistently flogged.
Reason: either Martians (not having any Adam and Eve) were never involved in originat sin, or else they committed their own original sin.
Before he was fourteen he had flect from school four times:
(1) To become
London chimney sweep;
COM
Lady Potersham tall; Miss Ashe very
There goes love,"
E
very
shori,
sax a wit "the long and the shor: of iL", The short of it was, very soun
her
to Paris way
0.5 At any
ralo Montagu's wife.
had Where
been # Marriago ceremony in a Mayfair chapel, although it did not prevent Muse Asho inter occasions and living, quito happily, to the age of 84,
he was confined for Montagu, Gold 10
Paris
dungeon over, a gambling uspute, after which De went to Egypt,
Thero obecane enamoured
(2) To encol himself 'at Ox- ford as a student of Turkish and Perstan and to share lodgings with a charming landlady. "Th most ungovernuule iltile rake that ever played truant," for his mother;
If the former, they are per- fect and have no need of the Church,
If the latter, they were either left damned ever {and so are beyond help from the Church) or God pro- Thames-sido vided
a special salvation for them.
In any caso,
their salvation
coud not depend upon Christ- which leaves them outside the
a Unite, 9
fold. 18 Pursue 20 Ended, 20 Sterne, o
YESTERDAY'S ERONSWORD,--Acrose 1 Create, 3 Speck, Javert, to way, 11 Nive, 12 Pale, 13 konum, 10 Pedine. Seene. 22 Eute. 23 Seif, 20 Clema, 28 Fader, 27 Park, 2 Suste Down: rules, 2 Envelop 3 Tern, 4 Entlees, Posneta, 7 warm, 14 Fruption, 15 Spectres, 10 Presed. 17 Duffers, In Unoste, 21 Colan, 4 Basit
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
I'LL CARVE
IT, DEAR
MOTHER COMES TO
THE RESCUE
AT THE
CRUCIAL MOMENT.
ALL RIGHT, SHERIFF
GO WAKE
THEM UP
SUDDEN ABSENCE OF ALL HANDS WHEN IT IS TIME TO WASH
THE DISHES.
WHETHER YOU CALL IT
"STUFFING OR FILLING, YOU WILL FIND IT DOES BOTH
THE WINNER
AND STILL
CHAMP
Then a touch of phliosophy. "My son wanted to marry
the Concluded the Churchmen, o.her day. Thank goodness he "our jurisdiction is limited didn't. Twenty-one is all right the earth.”
from
тапуни on tive
A
the
13) To sell Asi in the slums, Very shrewdly and successfully, Re- proached by his tutor, a clerat-
Lamin man, for conduct Il-being When the consul went note on the grandson of a duke, the boy
Montag
reloved that St Peter had sold business,
fish;
10
Edward Wortley Mentapu. Jonathan Curling. BERİTOLE. 231 pages.
Dv *Jx.
Turkey Day
THE WISHBONE EVERYBODY WISHES TO MAKE A WISH.
BY HARRY
NEVER A DULL MOMENT -
LAST MINUTE PRACTICE
BEFORE THE BIG SCHOOL GAME
AT LEAST WE
CAN BE THANKFUL FOR THE MEMORY'
Wenez
"
I WISH
MORE
THERE WERE
WISHBONES
THE GOBBLER WILL GET YOU
IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT —
n
KRE 15:
THE NEXT DAY – RIGHT; BACK ON THE OLD DIET
WHO
WHERE IS YOUR
BIB, BUSTER ?'
WEINERT
211 Consul
wife in Alexandria.
eVicence that
htt urowned in ine North Sea and married the "widow.**
Next he became Roman Catholse, i was not, however the end of Jus spatial pligrimage,
Hardly had he received the certincate pronouncing that ho W03 "freed of all taint of heretical depravity" than he began to set aside part of house for his womeniolk na it 11 were a harem nimi, still more uisconcerting. insed what his Italion wite should share these apartments with a dusky beauty
amed Ayesha.
LAST YEARS
It WIS not
long
before
Monagu was demanding to DO initiato, by the usual rate, into the mosiem religion,
The last years:or this uncon-- ventional Englishmanh
werd
spent in Venice. Ho posed as a son of a BulGZ), Wouring the jeweled nigroké of an Skoman prince. In the coldest wesider
was tunned WILL DORCOSE. pitumes; in the bragues aun ught he was escortug through the streets by torchbearers, all the time be WELSI sending learned communications to the koyal Society.
The young Duke of Hamilton, taken by his tutor 10 visit this astounding personage, watched open-mouthed as kontagu p furned his beard (kopt in curi- papera unul noon
every day) with aromatic smoke.
Móniagu summed up his life: "I never commutted a small folly
Ho deserved to bo remembered in small book of, mayko half the length of ·ME Curling's blography.
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