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by OSBERT LANCASTER
"By the way, Jennifer's new boyfriend paints!"
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THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, - MAY
-1955,
MR LEAHY GETS A SURPRISE FROM THE STONE AGE GIRLS
less outcasts.
not as
GOLD-PROSPECTOR peopled waste, half-hidden selves. On the outward journey Wahg wives are responsible for they won awe as visiting spirits, working the family plantation, was drifting down the in rain-cloud and fog.
Returning, they realised that for porterage, for cooking, for sombre waters of the
con- tending the all-important pigs Purari in New Guinea. They propsector was Michael familiarity bred vicious
are still one form of] Cagney-faced Irish tempt; local leaders had de (piga Suddenly he met with 4 Australian formerly a railway Bounced them
envoys, currency in the valley),, new, uncharted
An alert from spirit-land but as worth-" river clerk in Queensland:
Altogether it is small wonder flowing
Purari man, this Leahy-for not long
that into the
long engagements ter, in January 1933, he noted after cu
In Stone from the west. And bobbing a
popular with wemers stretch of cloud particular
Age valley. Small wooder that on its broad stream
were midway along the Bismarcks
nat the
prospective wives postpone, the corpses one with dark costern wall. It was
usual massy mountain cumulus, skul cleft open.
day so often that most marriages the kidnapping of begin with but the lighter cloud which "
the reluctant bride-a shotgunl rises from grussland.
marriage in reverse,
This "token of tribal war held a special mystery: for, the unknown river camé from the Bismarck Moun- tains and the Bismarcks were held to be, an
A British Crossword Puzzle
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1 Heat (6)
ACROSS
9
12
16
4 Money offered as an induce-
ment (5)
7 Musical instruments (8)
8 Side (S)
10 He
He's (4)
12 Wander about (7),
15 Purport (5)
16 Weary (4)
17 Tribe (4)
19 Has a meal (5).
20 Bird of prey (7)
21 Daybreak (4)
23 Intends (5)
24 German (6)
25 Grown-up (S)
28 Rejects with disdain (6)
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21
1 Bird (8)
16
un-
Unfrightened
to
dls-
bad
Valley-
Later, violence
Several times before they could reach base Leahy's 'party were forced-under a squall' of stone-pointed arrows-to answer with ric fire,
Swindlers
KFD
Succeeding contacts with ateed friendship mingled with THERE'S a wild poetry in the
great swingers, of Whitaker
Take
of lives
the
case
It was the prelude covery. By April, acting boldly
duced en these clues, Leahy
mis- sudden violence. Two found
the Wahgi
a pro- slonaries were murdered; a country which time a spector was found on the cres; Wright, who swallowed cyanide
of half a country gotten, B
the of a ridge near his camp. He and died in 1904. million people still living
had a single-barrelled shotgun Some of the money Whittaker Stone Age.
with the hammer cocked, Wright milked from investors
his hands. There The story of their discovery, clunched in of how they met the impact of was an arrow in his chest, just spent on building Lendon's Bakerico Lanc some was spent hay man,
gone over the heart. The body was modern
en Canadian development; most strangely untrumped. It is still warm."
Thus the familiar was spott on Whitaker Wright, told in full for
pattern seemed Bet;
Lea Park-his houre'in Surrey. for gradual white en est £250,000, plus £400,000 croachment, for en for improvements, forced civilisation with its two-edged bless- ings. But
the
Arst time by Aus-
One Lea Park attraction, was
a huge room built under a lake. a glass roof, visitors
the Australian Through
Government had other could see. fish swimming above plans. Land purchase them, by, whiles was restrict
rolian travel author
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Colin Simpson in his Adam in
Plumes
NEW BOOKS
(Angus & Robertson, 213.).
Agc
men
First of the Stone
to
greet
naively
by Pitman Robert
clothes and pink skin.
plumes bristled from their head- civilisation. dresses: they were collars gleaming pearl-shell and carried carved, ceremonial spears.
of
DOWN
2 Sailing meetings (8)
3 Colour (4)
5 Softened. (8)
8 Badinage (6)
9.Danger (5)
14 Sentry (8)
12 Pattern. (3)
13 Calamity (8)
14 Remains (8)
13 Myth (8)
22 Retain (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Strangle, 8 Toiler, Ridicule, 11 Informed, 12 Spct. 13 Remus, 18 Darts, 19 Ebon, 22 Socrates. 24 Retainer, 25 Demure, 29 Relieved. Down: 1 Strip. 2 Tiffs 3 Serried, 4 Trim, 5 Arid, 6 Grumpy, 7 Events, 10 Dernur, 14 Mason, 16 Stirred, 16 Tergor, 17 Portal, 20 Stout,. 21 Ashen, 27 Sire 23 Čede,
Leahy were unfright- ened. tall, curious at the, sight of
Ld: the best tribal' customs -stimulated;
The
tale of Wright,
od
London Begins To Grow Up
By TONY WHITE
London.
ONDON does not want to be like towering New York. It wants to stay much as it has been for centuries, squat, sprawling, year by year stretching farther out on both sides of the muddy Chames, growing out instead of up..
But as its millions pack tighter, architects are publicly saying that soon the city must change; it will have to climb skywards or Soon there will be little room left for it to grow in.
Their reasons are practical. Building out, they say, uses up far too much valuable space in a small island where land is being built upon at the rate of 30,000 acres a year
They say suburban development is eating Into the country "green belts" which separate London from Home County towns and villages.
They say there must be more space in the city to solve traffic problems alone.
And there are the economics of it: in these times of rising travel costs, people must not be forced to live farther and farther from the city's centre, where they have their work. Building new suburbs, widening the bread perimeter of Greater London, is no good. London must bullà mère multi-storey fats ncarer its heart.
Many Londoners oppose their ideas. And their reasons are primarily gentimental,
There is St Paul's Cathedral to consider. Its 386 foot-high beauty would be sh- literated by brussy skyscrapers, they say, And so would that of other churches and cathedrals and, old buildings which tower a paltry few hundred feet into the city's grey skies.
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All the architectural treasures öf London and at any other city would be lost in the bright, slab-sided incongruity of towerw ing medern blocks of offices and fats.
No, Londoners say,' we want to remain as we are.
They are proud enough that the nation's Highest building, Salisbury Cathedral, Is 404 feet high. And it does not matter to them that it is more than a thousand feet shorter than the Empire State building...
But some architects are sure that soon the Government will have to pass some kind of law to permit them to plan higher. They do not want Manhatten-siyle buildings, but, merely pigmy skyscrapers rising 30 to 50 sicreys.
Slowly London is beginning to mow up. Already a 29-storey building is planned for the Thames South Bazic. And flats of 15 storeys or more will go up elsewhere homes for hundreds on third-of-an-acre sites.
PARADE:
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Three out of every four are in daubed aboriginal medicine men SEEING The tiny Dutch town
of Oirschot, will be the
"Ane had been group which has
using DOUBLE
double secing
this grooves"
to penicillin and "pointed pre- similar For low month.
on "May 21 jections."
a score Bottomley, Hatry, and of other" adventurers
j
A wealth of bird-of-paradise the people were left to choose france is recorded in Very hundreds of pairs of twins from The prints of the smallest
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Q
centuries
antibiotics for
A species of native, mushroOT), Private Enterprise by Aylmer many parts of Europe will 'go
"European group, to which only one person common around Adelaide, could What has been changed? The Vallance (Thames & Hudson, there for a two-day
fcr Twins" Congress
to talk in 50 belongs, are characterised "yea, she said, another icind of feads have been outlawed. 155.).
Bfe-saving drug. serious about "the
problems by a great many fine grooves. Tuberculosis, malaria have been
Mr. Vallance is clearly a dab unique to this category di But it was their plain-clad checked, Harmful tribal prac- wives who startled Leahy tices e.g., self-mutilation, cut at Agures and air beck is citizen."
in bursting with balance sheets," Anger-joint, Screeching between tears anding off a
debentures and quid assets. laughter. they embraced his mourning-have been followers, claiming them as dead aged. relatives returned from the
spirit world.
after
discour
What has survived? The
of stil the land valley is The valley itself,
the plumes. The missions do not drabnces 23 a symbol dank New Guinea coast, was insist on paradisaical — a Switzerland of Christianity. And the Wahgi under the Southern Cross. And Valley is still the people too had planted
It se:ms perfect bedtime read ing for cry crime fan who is à chartered accountant as well.
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Horses...elks
the spinster's Elysium; the unmarried girls FINALLY, I recommend:- ornament groves still strut about adorned with bright with flowering shrubs plumage and pearl-shell; the ta fringe their tribal dancing
claborate
grounds.
These people are artists, not savages!" the wondering ex- plorers told each other.
und amid burned huts they found a
by ground ravaged dancing marauders, its trees ringed to
Bays of Elk and Buffalo, by
girls not the mea-ill take Florence Hayes - Turner" (Arco, the Paliative in courtship: and 12s. 6d.). the girls play the dominant part
BULLETS Seventeen
Cairo be- YOU CAN Yes, And outside conference hours
Buenos BEAT HER
divorce court Aires doctors are.
ruled last week, the twins all of them over 15 IN BRAIN wildered years-will take part in com- puzzling over the strange case you can beat your wife. But on petitions for the twins who look of Antonio Pilato. Thirty-year- no account can you slap her. most alike, those who look least old Italian Antonio got into a
laid down the alike, the fattest pair, the thin- lover's quarrel month ago. He principles of legal wife-beating nest, and the funniest,
wound up with three bullels in when granting a divorce to
22-year-old wife whose husband, his train
had slapped her.
And for the best looking, the title: "Twins of Europe 1955."
Officially he ought to be dead. But he doesn't even feel sick. X-rays reveal that the bullets
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The court
a
Declared the court: "We are agreed that a husband may beat
his wife only with the aid of a
cane no thinner, than a finger, and must not strike more than one part of the one blow on body.
But on no account could ha strike, her on the face-"which reflects the beauty of a woman,”-
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TONGUE South African Dr are still there. Yet the X-ray
Bernard Squires plates are the only sign of any GROUPS
has found another thing wrong Miss TurceT was brought up
division in, the human race- in the festive kanana trency in Colorado amid horses, comic people are divided, he says into fuss about....I feel great.”
Says Antonio: "What's all the an official, highly-stylised routine
a great tongue groups" of firtation with young men relatives, corrals, and
quantity of elles and buffalces, from neighbouring clans.
For a year he has been Marriage? For New Guinea's She now recalls these delights, Stone Age girls it means the end Background le Murder, by laboriously collecting "tongue" JUNGLE Scientific researcher Nancy Atkinson death with stone axes-the work of fashion in parmes, the end of Nigel Morland. (Werner Laurie † Prints and sorting them accord- DRUGS
came out of 15s). A plain retelling of the into the number and type of
caser, from "Tooves" which appear in the Australian outback last week NAPOLEON'S Chidding- fold villagers best-loved murder
after a six-year study of Austra-WILLOW, prints.
here
are split Lian plants and
and fungi Kabe Webster of Richmond
over the fate of the willow tree There Wallace et Liverpool, Unoriginal
are four groups, he reported:
Life-saving penicillin will find it re- Lezys Just as in blood groups,
was on the village green. Should It but devotees verost,
most people belong to one group, really
paint be singled out for public atten
tion with a plaque, or jest to be just another tree?
of a rival clan,
adornment. By Wahgl standards woman is fashlly Such feuding, the constant a married bloodshed, was, they learned, overdressed if she flaunts much
And more than a fibre skirt. the staple of valley life.
the soon they were to sample
Marriage also means the be- labour. them- ginnbog of a life c warring temper same
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
JUST A WET SUNDAY —— TWO KIDS AND A’
PUP (THE GOOD-WATCH-DOG TYPE)
to
Wanted--A Desert Island
—AND WHO DO YOU THINK WAS IN IT? THAT FELLOW WITH THE CUTE MOUSTACHE WHO WAS A BIG STAR BEFORE WE WERE MARRIED ETC.-ETC.....
A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE-LATE SHOW AND WHO CARES ?
PON'T EXPECT SOLITUDE ON THE FIVE-FIFTEEN- SOME CHARACTER WHO CAN'T TALK AT HOME OR IN HIS OFFICE IS SURE TO JOIN YOU.
COPR. 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP. BAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
HEY!
YOU CAN'T. PARK HERE
THIS IS BOUND TO HAPPEN ANYWHERE WITHIN A MILE OF WHERE YOU WANT
TO GOT
IF A DESERT ISLE IS TOO RE
CAVE, OR AN OLD CLOSE
WONE
*
nothing Tew:
BY HARRY WEINERT
IT'S A GIFT BEING ABLE TO SHUT ONE'S EARS
TO A HUSBAND'S STORIES ABOUT WHAT A BIG SHOT HE IS IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
"DON'T YOU THINK
IT'S TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT YOUR INCOME.
TAX
"IF YOU WERE ON A DESERT ISLAND YOU WOULD BE SQUAWKING ABOUT THE MOISY SEA GULLS
the
moment
צבח
General feeling at the
s against bid to- distinguish the willow. For memories Ary this quiet corner of England are long-and the willow came from
a cutting of the tree planted on Napoleon's first grave
on St Helena;
It was given to the me
by
a descendant of the British doc-
for
whe attended Napoleon
when he was dying.
Says Parish Council chairman Mr A. Clare Robinson: "People have told me they can't under- stand why we have accepted: this testimony to England's greatest enemy bar Hitler."
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LONELIEST If you were PUB
order cne at the Lord Nelson Inn at Barton Hill's No. 1 clearance. ares, Bristol, you would be having a drink at Britain's loneliest pub...
Hundreds of houses on all sides of it have crumbled and vanished, leaving the Inn like a rock, in an ocean. Only because of its solid construction has the pub escaped the demolition order.
Landlord Edgar Henney and his wife stay on in the centre. 01. this biggest property clearance scheme Bristol has ever known, waiting for the day when the
· customers come back. They will one day when the new 15- storey flats are built next door. Mrs Henney's family have run the Lord Nelson for nearly 79 years. None of her bears visualised the day, would come when all the terraces of houses on every alde of the Inn would disappear, «
There is still a little trade, at the Lord Nelson, and Mr and Mrs. Henney courageously stick it out waiting for the new flats and their tenants to keep them company.
SAUSAGE Hefty (300 lbs): Sir Roy Welensley, de- CHAMP
puly premier of thi Central African Federati
claims as new title
sausage eater.
The first title?
booding Chamioimm Rübúdenias,
Tha: second: A knighth 1959
Now comes the other misht one-time
baker, bermany / starel
gineer, trade union lead
Welensky ato five footbis girin
of compára-beon
Lata cumonfira estinzi
...