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Oh, how Amanda would have hated me...
O RARE AMANDA! By jack from sunstroke, were trying Pavilion ut Lami the Loudan, Chatto and Win- to
righton in icing sugar. But dus, 15%. 200 pages.
Ananda speak for her- MANDA MCKITTRICK self, in the opening words
ROS wrote novels like at her first novel:
the world began.
lot
At Homo always to the honourable
Mrs Amanda M. Ros,
the
12, 1955,
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PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND · THINGS
familie V gavo 고 Garden Party at century in New Zealand, but it "What Are Buckinghon Palaco to greet all appears that the end of the road or the beginning of the taste is still not in eight,
MONEY Acting on
BEFORE theme,
Perfect TA Parintiship?",
LOOKS Requirements of surviving VC modellista.
Marriage Research the
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Spanish to MARIA
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strange claim
maladors Her prejudice against lawyers Bureau in Vienna has just can- EATING A town with a
farme stemmed from a tedious lawsuit, varoodhousands of young girls FEATS
Is colourful APPLIES ayla
the
bullring to become over a Ume-kiln which she and only to discover that no one of an
stors and her husband had been left, tiem balleved that love was all- Spanith Mondonedo near
The Alm was north-west tip of Spain,
21-year-old del Pinar Ramirez 19 locala beast that more gastrono- Marin height of the litigation important or even that it . AUTHORESS.
Amanda would drive
necessary to marriage. ench
mic feats are performed within Germined to fill the gap.
* Noting that
Dominguit, market day to the offices of the Instund of love, Austria's fair the ancient walls of Mondonedo But alas, not everyone offending lawyers. Producing a sex instuted "teleney
As than anywhere else on earth. Lité, and Julio Aparito had all no other novels sineV Sympathise with me in was honourable: in parti- toy trumpet, she would blow a breadwinner" as a more vilal
turned to the movies (Aparito In support It was as deed! Ah, no! Cast your cular, Amanda had reason dorisive blast or two and, unfurl factor in a "Dream Husband."
of this claim all ghts, but anly part times," if a confectioner, suffering sympathy on the chill waves to delest lawyers
Mondonedons invite you to look Schorita Maria applied to the and a banner declaring that she was over 73 percent of them, in fact, at the breakfast menu of 4, Spanish chief for permission to
decided that they would rather of troubled waters, fling it literary critics. Loudan, her being ahamotessly vicumised.
igwnsman. Ramon fight bulla Afty ex-
have a bushand who could win typical on the cases of futurity: biographer, lists
She bad as this suggests, Ath.m
"Good Mendez, who starts the day off prosperous
The chief is nonplussed. No cash it against the rock of pressions of contempt hurl touch in ordinary correspond-Morning than one who
with 24 eggs. Or even Alfonso gitt has ever appiled before.
But Maria адуа there's gossip: or, better still, allow ed by her at the latter (e.g. enee that was brisker than the only kiss them an affectionic Cigarran, who every day drinks
before nothing to it. She has already Lo remain within the "daubing erals, hogwashing flowing style of her novels,
killed 14 bulis in private rings. whom false and Tarthless bosom hooligana, egotistical earth-
Anglo Italian,
"All you do," she says, "Giorgino One of them was Osbert Sitwell calls of buried scorn. Such were wurms".)
your cyca between thio as singled out for special op in answer to his admiring letter de Dragonl," received from her of probrium
"St Scandal- a reply which began, "Dear Mr ings," because he had sag Glorgino de Dragont, Your name such it can be called-is Working tip FL fine gested that a baronet in one-
unfamiliar to me." of words, Amanda of Amanda's novels wore un-
Her favourite authors were wrote novels (Irene pressed trousers.
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father Ros
about persons of The highest social standing, und books of Verad (Poems
of Puncture), of which Westminster her lines
Abbey are typical:
Holu Muscs!
look:
Take a
Flesh decayed in eriry
nouk,
rare bits of bratt fe here Mortal loads of beef and
bear.
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↑ Stak (4)
DOWN
2 Deposited (4).
4 Regiment (4)
5 Couple (4).
Internal (5)
7 Dizzy (5).
1 Assessed (5)
10
Sedale (5).
12 Best part (5).
14 Seoit (5).
Is Shy (5).
19 Timepiece (4),
17 Altude (5).
20 Land measures (5).
21 immense (1).
22 Midday (4).
23 So be It (4).
24 Appointment (4),
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOR D.--Across: 1 Stumps, 4 Risks,
7 Pines, Clag, # Regret, 11 Ernerald,
13 Prepare,
Supery, in Tulor, 19 Examined, 20 Right, 21 Endure.
Down:
1 Super. 2 Miner, 3 Shelter, 4 Rescue, 5 Separule, & Stupid,
10 C ung, 12 Message, 13 Putter, 14 Arrest, 16 Pried. 17 Budge.
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Before long, Amanda's re- markable style began altract connoisseurs of the unusual in literature, Amanda Ros clubs sprung'
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could
"Good Night!" Ohers were on 50-60 glasses of beer the look-out for "good-natured" lunch as an "appetiser" awbands or "really clever men."
Other locals are not so thirsty
Lucus their Less desirable qualities, it as Alfonso and, instead,
bull's shoulder blades, thôn appears (through femine Aus- particular "appetisers
follow your sword through as trian eyva anyway), are gal of 80-90 sardines eaten non-
you plunge between the horns. lantry, good-looks
and talls strong stop-head, ins
cluded. muscios.
own.
and
consist
1 prucilsed for 10 months-and
I only got hurt twice."
she hasn't received
门
answer from the police chief by
To try and make the headlines A number of girls revealed that they hope that when they by way of a banquet is not un- finally found their husbands they naturally difficult in Mondonedo. next month, she's going to the wouldn't be beaten or have fur- So difcalt, in fact, that when Azores to flight bulls there, the allure thrown at them or be left one bridegroom served a whole Portuguese have no objection to bull fighters-par- to do the housework all on their roast ox at a family dinner and women
Instead of roast potatoes served ticularly, it seems, if they're reparato roast chickens, the Spanish and pretty. The Research Burenu revocis, family cleaned the fable and however, that there ere some then went off to a friend's house Auflun girls who are easy to have a meal in celebration. to please These girls wrote that they would be sausfied with any man provided that he MYSTERY After more than a Amanda wrote NS à devout premature grove through
quarter of a cen- institution. was blond.·
In Austria, any- TASTE Predictian, bora and baptised attacks both on her works and way, it seems that indics
tury of research, tube in Batlynanden, Co. Down, in person"). and Oscar Wilde, prefer them.
dairy scientists chronic deficit because of the 1861 "By birip, she wrote, "I am whom she called "the Lante an Irish woman, though a dash of tragedian,"
Alice in tierman blood piebalds my Wonderland she "could not re- HITLER'S velas, my father traced descent call one redeeming feature of from Sitte, King of the Danes, elegance." bul such Antiquitestas tracery admest obliterates relationship."
but
by
Hearing that an American col. As a strapping, spirited young lector had paid 15,400 for the be trulteacher khu arrived
In manuscript of "Aliee," she was Larne where, on the very first incredulous. Was Alice, she usk- day, her eye fell on the red-
ed, an accepted eliste, like frente bearded stationmaster Andrew
Jadesleigh? Ross whom in 1887. she married dropping the second "s" in the
name for reasons of style.
touch
of
on the
loo
-
reason
flavours.
"why
ON THE in French slang, Kei- EYE ung something "on the eye' ta somoining for nothing. it's a great Frenen The Paris bus and
servicea
In
tradi
are
the conquctor won't even. Look at him for his fore,
Lust
to
There's a draw-
New Zealand have just announced that they hordes of passengers who man- are stl baffled by what they age to travel "on the eye," ór Next year will be describe as "The Great Cheese pretty, near it. Any policeSTLAN, ESCAPE the centenary of Mystery--the mystery, that is, or instance, can hop a bus and
the Institution of of where the tasto comes from.
Cross the Victoria
by Quoon Victoria. Since then
The above may sound a minor 1,344
week Paris Municipal Thomas got Victoria Crosses and three bars problem but to cheese-makers it Councillor Rene
lu A constantly recurring choterle because he'd had to cut have been won.
headache. If, say the cheese- up nasty before he could get in First to receive the
modal makers, they could discover the free week-endk foolbalt was Midshipman C. D. Lucas
cheese
tastes matches for bravery during the Crimean cheesey, they could then greatly Promptly the Council voted war when he picked up a shell help the
the customers and them- "ea
eye" places for ali deck of his ship and selves In 1938, this original with the throw it overboard.
control by quick
for of grounds
Councillors and their wives. untu corect poetry 'One holder of the VC, Cor- wasted her cull, which Cume poral Henry Tandy, of Coven- If this is not enough to con- soon,, to the heaveny munsions. try, won the medal in France vince you that the cheese taste NO ROOM "Thoova i 1 get sapped into a in 1915 in the defence of a post mystery is a real one, Dr H. R. FOR JUMBO back to the dus
Zealand's the Whitehead, of New where at Merrin when
tinotion of being 2121411 sug oungalow there will be plenty of in- enemy was Hitler, Tandy, who Dairy Research Institute, re- the biggest elephant in Briam,
cently told a
meeting as Indian-born Jumbo in Harry pera-and
writing pans, I will successfully held the post with
ner considerable rout, capturing several machine "obsessed" with the search for to
ventence. Huer the mysterious taste. guus, has related that bio-could have been bayoneted to "IL 13 pocsible," SAYA
Naturally, Dr
at 05, she ans for a chemist Maintaining the social
greply-which, not unsympatne-death but was let off. because Whitehead
to developed a muadle-aged spread, style Some uf the rore appropriate
dist from cheese the substance as betits one who touches use 10 h novelist. ucally allows the facts to speak he was n wounded man. venturesome
but scales at the wrong side of four enthusiasts Amanda drove to Gardenmore for demselves—will doubt that
Tandy said: "It only I could which produces ita flavour Church, Larne, Amanda, de the pilgrimage to her Presbyterian
writing us
feels have looked into the future, I'm it is impossible to identify this tons, and her girth is hardly in she
keeping with ino Dhor · concep- Sunday on
flavour chemically." daraned if he'd have got oif.“
tion of the ideal waistilne, it home in Northern
und us she does not feel, Ireland, every
phuelon with a young man in
The last organised meeting of Cheese-making has been re- measures some tive lees, which to match
Victoria holders of the Andrew preferred to have a style
Cross duced from an art to a science is no help when it comes so occasion.
was in 1820 when King George during
quarter of
mding logings der ner,
Judo came up against this Ising on her recent visit to
up in Oxford and London. First editions of her novels. Left much to herself 23 A husband's heavy cherished. were
Her aut of her mirers included Lord Ox. al eemmements in the even-
Amancta ing
took to writing ford, Sir Edward Grey, Lord novels which dealt with scenes far removed from Ponsonby, Lord Beveridge, and events
1.arne, although " recurring Sir Desinoud McCarthy and Aldous Huxley, who called Phrase like the pit of in- temperance may reflect # Delina Delaney a "master- doniestle anxiety. pieve. "
In consequence, Amanda had fivery. a card printed:
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"HE LOOKS LIKE HE
COULD USE A GET-WELL GARD /*
E HAPPY RECIPIENT OF
"DOESN'T YOUR. ROMEO GO FOR
walk.
smart
ue ontent."
No reader of Loudan's
will any
With Hearts You Win... Or Lose
PEANUT BRITTLE ?,
ENDER GREETINGS FROM ONE
HE DIDN'T THINK CARED.
"YUM YUM /
WHEN CUPID TWANGS
HIS BOW THE
“WHOLE FAMILY
GETS INTO
THE ACT.
WUNUT
COM, 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES
COMP. TH-WORLD NIGHTS RESSAVEO.
CUPID ON A RAMPAGE-
THE
VALENTINE PARTY.
"DON'T TELL
ME YOU'RE
GOING TO
COMIC VALENTINES.
SEND
"THAT
THING
"
"OH: BROTHER /...
THAT. FITS }
YOU TO A
"GOSH, THIS STUFF
IS AS GOOEY
AS THE
VERSES."
one
of
nine men and put the enemy in that he had come Coay's Empire Circus is nag
the last
BY HARRY WEINERT
MYSTERY. SUSPECTS SUSPECTING
SUSPECTS.
(FIND THE ONE WHO SENT THE ANONYMOUS VALENTINES )
"ALL THE WORLD
LOVES A LOVER-
PHOOEY!
(HMM-1 WONDER- "WHAT HE'S DONE THIS TIME 7.
incon-
Darlington Hippodrome, where sne gave the "speciany shorea- up stage a reni test for a week and hud tao stage hanks in agondes of despair, host círéus proprietors are aute to hod, àë- commodation for The .oud elephant in the stables of some paduc house, out one Darlingwa jandlord after another drew the unc at housing the biggest elephant in kiritain. Jumbo was much too big even for the
argest of pub stables,
land-
And of course, some lords were not too sure that it was altogether wise to biliet an elephant in the pub precinct. As one host put it: "CustoLCTS may get bit worried ir ey SAW
"an elepant-eveli a grey one-on licenced premises.”
*
DIFFERENT Joha MUNI
upper-crust
Pool, legendary figuru of the -Britan spart of 10x-
bunung, would most acfimwny never have approved of this particular fox hunt.
O nunting nur, *YOINE, tally-ho,"
yapping fox- hounds, no galloping horses Just shabby. raincoats of nien footing it through the bramble, and instead of bounds, rifles.
Foxes in the Godhurst part of Kent are getting hungry, seins there aren't as many rabbits around as there used to be, the luxes have been picking off | sheep instead,
.
This week farmers went our after the
the foxes, determined to got us many of them could before the Spring lambung, season starts.
they
The fooung foxes were ariven towards a line of guns--the way they
catch
Ligers-py: 120 beaters who combed 2,000, acrés of forest.
Tho day's #core: clever Probably a lot better than f. ever managed in ana wuting.
SEVEN-YEAR The pretty cóle LIMIT
Jeene who work. as air hostessen with Aer Lingus, the Irish go- |line," are, unhappy,
Lost would the management anbounded that they must: stop flying after meven yeoTE: ||medical advice?(90) SANA
But the hostesses, whoes, ngad
Svaruke 23, think it's just
blarpey
conwhat the company really. nearis," said one, “but in atradi
to say, is that it fears -- After NOVINKA JEDNE our, glamour, wear, of A
an" artberopt, toxing, the charter on beauty.22)