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by. Artie
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"Come on, make up your mind which boat you want to tako, Rita Hayworth!"*
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955.
Mr Lewis finds Faith PARADE
SURPRISED BY JOY. By C.
S. Lewis. Geoffrey Blos.
15.. 224 pages.
F
OR Professor Clive Staples Lewis (Medieval and Renaissance English. Cambridge) there is no doubt what is the most important event in his life
of 57 years.
11 occurs On
page 223 of his 26th
book
where
driven sunny
he writes, "I to Whipsnude morning. When
Was
one
we
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20 Legal right (4)
27 Calamity (8)
6 Elegance (3)
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10 Doctrine (5)
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a trip Zoo
-on to the
set out ! did not
17
Lowis.
reached
the
that Jesus Christ Son of God, and when reached the zoo, I did."
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WBS
believe the
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stages.
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16 Purport (3)
12 Let full (5)
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19 Clear (5)
20 Nominates (5)
21 Supasses (4)
23 Lake (4)
23 Way out (4)
2 Warble (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOILD - %199s; & Purkure, 4 Suvsil, 7 perendor, Ususe, Leader, 11 Pyroid, F "ecluse, 15 Abated. 16 Mei 1 Re- Lev. 20 Scene, 21 Solder. Down
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13 Rumpus, 11
by George Malcolm Thomson
sincere and emotional. Once in Meased College Chapel, Lewis moved himself so much that he had to have the pulpit for a little to recover.
bad Backed by eleven hearts easy colleges, he was beaten in 1951
by Ceel Day Lewis for
con-
For some time before
he had beeni version,
uneasy about his atheism, although agreed admirably with his dis- like of ritual. vcclesiastics and church-going. Looking back on it now. The pokes easy fun BL his own pompous patronage of
the Christian myth.'"
'I GAVE IN
He began to fulk airily about the Absolute, then of "God," distinguishest sharply. from "the God of popular vellgloss,”
This be was led struggling and kicking, to the moment he In the Telnily recounts thus
af
the
¡ETS
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Two former dark facade vanished. In is place is gleam- purposes,”
one
RAIN OF A fine autumn rain a month. Nothing more drastic nothing. Whenever I have worn
I get a new Last than scrubbing brushes and cold out a pair, began to fall MONEY
weck on the villag water has been used. But the from a Paris frin-as long as I
tho
return the old ones, What for? of Talisaieu in
Ain effect is starling...
them has They use
for advertising department of southeast Fruned rain of, £60,000 in good |British_nroney.
ing whiteness. The Royal ArmS Mention Britain to any of the stand out with, now clarity: 383 inhabitants and they volun- pediments, particoes and pillars MAU MAU Girl friend trou- teer "Glorious country! Noble appear with unfumiliur fresh-
has landed right-hand cleaned
men of Mat Mau's two top
Mra
of
just
Paul
were
Mes and
31,
GIRL ROWS blo the
of
спра while out new women com- for his chief.
nights in haystack and beneath years ago hedges
over
women
people." In Tallssleu's one cate ness. there's a constant, clinking
The Palace avas last glasses us the white wine toasts only in the 1930's. It has taken gang-leaders in gol. General are raised
"Viye l'Angleterie! less than a quarter of a century Nynga, closest lleutenant
of Fint for Bravo for the Bank
the building to become Dedan Kimathi, the dairy clerk spent Sundays as he spent week-land."
crusted with grime.
AVD3 turned bandit king, garden. For the villagers have days, working in his
There can be few more strik-
of the tured by loyal Kikuyu demonstration? But on Sundays he gardened Inwon a three-year tussle Ring
rpying alighty MITC respectable | fortume lett to them by Mes poisonous smoke of the London
pinions for Full, Presbyterianism dies hard. Louise Allen
of Muswell H. atmosphere.
General Kahinga Wachanga, From Kirk, Lowis passed on North London.
No. 1 hatchet mat for rival to Oxford, to
died in 1952, 1914-18 the
Ailen
•18 war.
guerilla leader Stanley Mattenge, where he "took"
09. German Jooving £60,000 of her £250,-
shot dead his 10-man gang and prisoners ("that is, discovered 000 estate the village where KING OF Andre Billani,
from surrendered to the Gloucesters. Frenchman When TRAMPS to my
great rellor that the she spent her girlhood.
Bordeaux, clatins to
Jealousy
has 62-year-old crowd of field-grey figures, who the Mayor,
In 30 he be the king of tramps.
Isalved the four-map appeared suddenly
from no Mounet, received the news,
125,000 now
hierarchy ruling Kenya's terror- municipal years he has welked the
village where, all had their hands up"); called
visited miles,
five continents. Ists." to the philosophical pre- councillors together.
been the guest of exotic royal- Is
The original split occurred twờ made Trim occupations which
The village was dying on
of spent thousands
when 34-year-old "the most dejected and re-feet. The young people
Kimathi discarded Mathenge's Tucand convert in all England" deserting it. The land was going
sister. Lewis has sacrinees his fe-sour for lack of care: those who
Furlous, the conceited story in order 10 describe the stayed behind were living
He was in Vienna the ber is stmisery--and the village trea-
day. He had just walked from henge, aftyisk pilgrimage of pas who
"This legacy Germany and was making his Army corporal, led his 300-man sury was empty. "surprised he did not become a
the Levit Atheist, siric Intel- is going to save us," M. Mounet
way through the Iron Curtain gang into another part of of the type
Hungary Aberdare Mountains to opirale all tok the councillors.
for the Balkans-vla rules burred But exchange
and Rumanin,
on his own.
Berles of When the seconi transfer of the money. Other
The colourful og book he surrender taiks were Alarted legal snags upped up. "To the
the
with early this year. Wachanga was with all
banking keeps of his wander devil
of ometal stamps spokesman M Mounet sake, "I'm its hundreds
for the and signatures--Including that delegation in the forest glace going to get that cash."
of the Mayor of Moscow-ly his where Government officers and his baker's He left
He had passport. which hos nover yet teriorist leaders mot. travelled
Tints. 10
Who of bankers.
international lawyers, failed him. And he is sure that the blessing of Mathenge.
He read up it, will get him across the Iron
was eager to surrender.
But the talks came to nothing the law and regulations himself Curtain as it has got him across
of them the every other frontler, including when Kimatni heard and found a way th
and
some slaughtered the Egyptian-Israeli border banks agreed to accept,
Wachangu the time when those two nations vere at war.
techu
Oxford Chak of Puelry; it was his only academic selback.
Many readers of Surprised by Joy will regret That Low's deckted, at some stage in writ- ing it, to tell the story of his
fe as a preparation for his con- know." version. For he has gift ordinary
mundane autoblo- graphy. His ploture of his school Wyvern (Lewis was at Malvern for a year) during a bad phase in its history, is admirably and frankly done.
"for
JM
THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT, by Jim Bishop, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 18. 264 pages. JOUR-BY-HOUR account
rudes."
He paints an affectionate but Good Friday, April 14, 1805 exchange experts.
candid portrait of his father, Beifust solicitor with a declama- tory manner, who, having sent his sons to u public school, was
twn when
potilalle
schoolboys were duly rafurned
te him.
Tera of 1820 I gave in. a tinentitled admitleri that God was God, and knelt and prayed." In his room in Magdalen. From this it was only another long step 0 the zoo.
צן
To the zoo and what came after, when C. 5. Lewis, erudie tuter in Tibernture, became at Christian immensely popular
capable of making dialecticlan,
theology entertaining (see The Screwbape Letters 41 which Chris tan forth and morals
through ingeniously presented the eyes of a minor devil).
theologians The professional Įdespised; the public read.
BACHELOR DON
Some may have been FRIK verted; many more were con- strained to admit that, in the ruddy - Inced. pipe smoking. tweedy bachelor don, with the trace of Helfast accent Eng- Fish Christianty had found an astute new champion.
BEST PORTRAIT
Best portrait of all is that of "Kirk"
(De Kirkpatrick). The ex-Presbyterian, ex-schoolmuzster who prepared Lewis for Oxfer
A few minutes after meeting "Kirk"
at Bookham Station. Lewis, making conversation, sald he was surprised by the scenery of Surrey.
wilder NO much than he expected,
-and all that happened Washington relating io the Prezident starsination, Workmanlike Job of historical reporting.
SHAKA ZULU. By E. A.
tor. Longmans. 213. 383 pagos.
in
consulted
out the
So last week Mr H.J.F. Wi- son, British bank, envoy, walk Rit-ed into Tallssieu handing money 11 envelopes of village poor. It was the Drst in- stalment
Allen's Mry on £00,000
Mr Wison told the villagers
on them that he'd be calling
Christmas- about with more time and regularly after that. turning their
3 village inste
A BLACK Napoleon who in 16
Mathenge's
men.
Mut- and one-time
Mau Mau
ΟΙ
then had a row with Mahenge
and over his youngest sister was reduced to a 10-man com- mand,
"Nyaga, who once commanded
and
Kimatol's men
AWD3
boy, promptly
when captured,
forces
to to
1912 "I started ramping in when 1 was 15. It has got into my blood, and I consider my of life well spent on the roads the world. In four years time 250 I expect to have completed bright guerilla years conquered and pocitled
200,000 than
kilometres (130,000 offered,
lead
the sccurly an area in Africa larger
miles) and then I shall prob-
A special Kimathl's hide-out, Europe. Full-length portrait of
round a great savage.
feree set out but Now, with go-ahead plans for ally mure. A small house with Kim
vineyard near Bordeaux. ROUCH WINDS OF MAY.
nothing in the jungle diotator's by Nancy Hallinan, bright medel place, the people What is he going to live on? lair except dirty clothing.
Kimathi and Mathenge-both Austrailan millionaire, of Taliskeu are looking forward "An Gollancz. 15, 414 pages.
within
junglo a day's William Johnson, has promised based NATURAL-BORN novelist to a reay now era,
or a le me £7,000
pension march from each other are left "Stop!" shouted Kirk, "what
sufficient presents her first work: A
for my needs it I without their favourite seconda- do you mean by wildness and
in-command, not story, of young love set in Lon- what grounds had you for
A light brown manage the 200,000 kilometres,"
Their starving gangs are re- expecting it?" it was an intro-don. Notablo in particular for PALACE
duced to bolling young bamboo duction to a discipline in logic a convincing portrait
FACELIFT torpaulin is draped he replied. "I think I'll take the
perision." Over the balcony
shoots for food. Both men are which lasted all through Lewis's painter at genius. Real achieve-
250-year-old of
Buckingham Sunburnt and wiry,
of Andre wary and suspicious
cach but, ment, more promise. stay with his terrifying
Palace. On the spot where the looks good for good many other. They quarrel over their brilliant tutor,
Royal Family stop out to greet years yet. He was wearing a women. the people on great
A eccartons pair of corduroy trousers, stand three workmen in blue rough, worn tweed jacket and overalls, shirt-sleeves rolled up a part of stout boots. English poet's Journey From the courtyard below they "You must get through quite WHY WOMEN Many women
· overest through Spain, accompanied are hauling up wooden cradles a few of those," someone said. OVEREAT
emotional He han ajon ropes.
pointing to the boots. by a pretty woman,
for Spain. The The men are ccaring up "I have worn out more than Teasts, writes Mr JB Oldham, poet's eye in Spaniards have Spaniards' cyca after cleaning the front of the 60 pairs in my travels," he re- honorary surgeon to the Queen, in the journal of the British they Palace. This is taken just over piled.
cost me Dietetic Association. He for his companion.
"The simple fact is that they find solace in scones, chocolates and cream cakes for the same
that drive their huis bands to seek relief in the bottle," he writes.
Once Mrs Kirkpatrick invited seven friends in for bridge; by found some error her husband his way into the drawing-room. later he was discovered Hours He preached in Oxford, the elling on a stool in the midst streaterst pulpit "draw" since of seven elderly ladies begging Newman,
it was sold. HIN them to clarify their terms. arguments were cogent, as that There was only ono flaw of a Triple First
be, Kirk's logical Rationalism.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
shotki
THE STORY OF THE TRIP INCH BY INCH.
AND I'VE HEARD ALL I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT. TRAVEL BEING BROADENING
ITS A MISTAKE FOR A GIRL TO
TELL HER: HOMETOWA
BOYFRIEND ABOUT THOSE CHARMING
EUROPEAN MEN – ESPECIALLY WHEN SUPPLEMENTED
BYAN ALBUM
OF PICTURES.
"
OF COURSE I WENT TO ALLTHE ART MUSEUMS-
JUST TO SAY I'D. BEEN THERE-AND OH BOY?: DID MY
FEET HURT/Y
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A ROSE FOR WINTER. By Laurio Loo, Hogarth Press.
12s. 6d. 160 pages.
AN
Home At Last
BY HARRY
HE WAS OUR GUIPE
IN SWITZERLAND AND HE WAS JUST
THE CUTEST...“
AND I WAS AS
CLOSE TO HIM
AS I AM TO YOU !"
~NOW TELL ME –
'WHAT DIP: TMISS ?
•A JOY, TÔ BE HOME AND. THE LOCAL GOSSIP AND SCANDAL.
WUND
ON ALL
"But
WEINERT
TO HEAR SOME OF THEM TELL IT, THEY SPENT:
THEIR ENTIRE. VACATION SURROUNDED
BY CELEBRITIES.
THE DOORS AND WINDOWS SHOULD BE OPEN WHEN THE YOUNG “ NATURALIST UNPACKS - STARFISH DON'T LAST FOREVER. Y'KNOW.
POESNT IT MAKE YOU SICK WHEN YOU ARE ALL- SET TO TELL ABOUT YOUR TRIP AND SOME BORE
HAS TO BEGIN AND TELL ALL ABOUT HIS
reasons
for
He asserts that poor people" who overeat are likely to get fatter than rich people who overext.
The reason is that the poor person has more carbohyuran.
in his food.
has also been
suggested,
says Mr Oldham, that children of poor families with bad man- ners get the overcating habit for the rest of their lives through hoving to grab for food when. young.
In nearly all cases of eXCCAS» Ive fatness the reason is simple {---overeating, he states.
SERMON SNORERS
The congregation at Chesham Bois (Bucks) parish church can now listen to the Sunday evening sermon without, embarrassment. For The Snorer has been found
The Parish Magazino reports: Members of the congregation who sit in the back half of the church have come under a cloud; for every Sunday evening rhythmic sterforous sound as of someona sleeping has bees haard regularly during the sermon.
This has caused everybody to egund everybody else with #uspicion
But the culprit-or rather culprits, plate
for they are a corn-
been family have And will be dealt with. wire netting to the trefoil- headed air-vent under the wast table
of the church has broken away and a small, community
of Jackdaws has taken up realdença between the roof and tho wooden celling of the navo
Lulled by the sound of the
bells every Sunday they re- gularly millia down here, and by.. sermon timo uro sleeping con- tentedly but noisily.
APPLE To dest the theory tha! TEST
"Man," "apple" a day keepe
the dentist away," the: Liverpool School of Dentistry 17 carrying out a two to three years' experiment on local school child will be given an applb.,
Some
After moals and others will not. Then the children will ho examined to soo 3 the apple, baa any beneficial effeo!
on thefr dõetu
A National Farming Undori spokesman says that dessert apple growers from Kent," and the other fruit-growing counities have contributed, ovest 100, sufficient at pikore. Vidithio mape: pentmenthomź, tim-Geraled;;out-tote the first your