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ARTIE
Ave
It's all part of Russia's diplomatic drive.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER" 5, 1955.
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
both men disappeared suddenly with their wives.
What's behind it? Business, 铝 #Cem.
Local
The drug, called Otolluqul by WHITE What would you appetite. Feeding, stabling and
for him has the Indians and Riva Corym ELEPHANTS do with a white generally caring
olophant 7 cost Mr Wilson over £1,000 bosn by the scientists, is closely Charlie is a nice amlable crea during the 12 months since he akin to melcalin.
his private 200 ture, but he is a white eltphant closed
nt It was used by the Indians, police chicts have been quietly the Attorney-General Mr
vistonsvisions letting produce He cannot to owner, to hip
Andrew Craigend Castle,
local businessmen Wilson, who lives near Glasgow, provide Buch upkeep much which
know that they interpreted
have been putting the pressure And Mr. Wilson just doesn't longer.
messages from the gods.
When to Irnow what to do about Charlie.
Even
The psychiatrists plan to use of hitherto expressed envy of such they hope the visions will give The businessinen are worried a solid possession aro suddenly them a clue about the nature of by competition from Las Vegas
Cuba disinterested now they know schizophrenia. is theirs for the taking. What
do they
Now Charlle is not a massive bit of Victorian furniture or an ancient sicam engine that musi be retained under pain of losing
grentaunt's legacy.
Charlie really is an elephant, 23 years old, and has a bearty
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Plates (8).
8. Make certain of (0),
Tang (8).
11 Record (8).
12 Passport widersement (4).
13 Scent (5).
18 Went
stray (9).
19' Detail (4)
27 Chose (B).
24 Tampered (8).
25 Rigorou (C).
26 Without equal (8)
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2 Custom (5).
3 Take the chair (7).
+ Loaned (4).
5 Trip (4).
Bring to light (6),
7 Outstanding (8).
10 Make dimeuilles (5).
14 Command (5).
15 Withdraws (7).
10 High clerle (6),
irtonds who
Wilson
with
have it in much the same way. But illelt am a blind eye to
an
Nevada and Havana, chics with wide open gambling and which are stealing Florida's tourist trade, the state's biggest industry.
comes
Schizophrenics currently would
occupy one in every five hos elephant?
pital beds in the world one in Yut Mr
cortainly every five of all hospital beds, docy not want to shoot Charlie. not just mental hospital beds. For the present, friends and Their affiction takes the form
When neighbours are coming to his of violent hallucinations which RED vid with contributions, and local produce a "split personality"
EYES spotting a Red, Ameri- disassociation A
of
can FBI boss J. Edgur thoughts, chiktren have been sending in
But that will feelings, and actions.
Hoover has the sharpest oyes pennies their
The clue the doctors hope to in the business-000 sharp, not satisfy Charlie's appetita
are thinking. indefinitely, and Mr
pluc some Americans Wilson got from Ololiuqui is a
mechanism of the In fact, some of them are say- Trekups he will have to decide about the Charlie's fate before the end of disorder. Since the drug does ing that Hoover maybe sees November.
produce state very like acute Reds when there aren't any.
has been Lately, opposition stili hopes that somebody schizophrenia, tests on the way
of Ho
the FBI's upo will fun
funcy Charlie before then, i acts and what it actually does A South American indy arriving to the human body might reveal "confidential informers" to track Communista, auspected about the chusca of down in England soon might like to much
The opposition has been coming keep him as a pot, somebody has schizophrenia.
from lawyers. newspapermen, told him.
and liberal politicians
Then there is a man working lay a shipping office who might even get him back to India where he could be released in The Jungl
ROYAL Moltre Reno Roussin, who presided over TASTES
until his retirement in 1947, has
MUSCLE-MAN of MUSIC
MEN, WOMEN AND
PIANOS. By Arthuri Loesser. Gollancz. & 251. 654 pages.
L
OESSER had the iden -write a book about the piano, about who' played it, taught it, made it, bought it. Would not such
book be a social history centred round a keyboard? is not the plane the typical instrument of the middle [class, rising with it to glory,
declining 63 Ita
power fades?
Loesser got as far as gathering the information on an Immense reale. He can tell you, for example, that in the fortice of Inst century, which can be taken ns the elimax of the plano's career, there were 60,000 planos In Paris; in England output was 23,000 a year.
PIANO-KILLER
But Mr Hoover Bakt the International Police Chief
Philadelphia killer, in Cuivention
the
In those days the plurists were greater than their music. Liszt, for example, leader of the strong-arm squad of the music-stool, was a real piano- whose muscular feats that the protests were part (even if they did not carry the the Royal kitchens of a "campaign of vitupera-punch of his ferocious prede
by
Beethoven) drow CLssor been talking about the favourite in" and "inspired largely
Communists."
adoring goze ef great ladies. dishes of the Royal Family. The protesters were not molll- Countcars Muric d'Agouli left
The Queen's top cholce
not even by Mr Hoover's husband and children to follow POSITIONS London employ-
fled-
hnd additional plea that the use exchanges plenies or cocktail parties is
Princess Belglojoso VACANT
recorded in are offering the smoked haddock filling in little informers is
a be carried in a woon from
hall to her the concert Wanted pastry sandwiches Queen Old Testament. year's strongest jobs.
Ezabeth
Mo- -18,000
Queen Father Christmases,“
riage. says the nuvertisement on their
Aavourles notice boards.
#d The
favourite comes from thu
gher- GPO, which was that number is mixture of chicken, of Loputoners to
kins and chopped ham in bread work as tem-
buns. porary postmen, porters, sorters and drivers.
2•
3
ment
"Finaing 18.000 Father Christ. a formidable jou," said The manager of an employment exchange With fewer List-
the
Ther
liken tiny with 贵宾 chicken lling. Princess Margaret's
for
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Maltro Roussin's own favour- is "like He dish. he confesses. King George V-roast boef."
employed to call on, the Mint BUSINESS Phoenix istry of Labour is taking early
steps
avoid 16
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| breakdown through
shortages.
labour
City,
ol the
HAPPY Despite the lure of radio and television, BEAT
is the gramophone not only boring its own; it has reached a peak of popularity,
This year the British
record make 60 million industry will
dises, which is inore than ever before. A big part is to satisfy
who
to the fans
clamour
of number the latest hear
These personal favourites. fans, though, quickly fire of the
uridi choice
briefly famous complete V. VICE
the Alabama town where gambling, gangsterism and corruption were so rife that
moment's the jobs will the National Guard had to move In and clean it up. has all but faded from memory. So had the men who made it infamousjour until recently.
Men who take get 3s. 4d, an hour, women 28. Bid, an hour,
VISION DRUG
17 Spiritualist meeting (8).
20 Scatter (5).
21 Snake (5).
22 Dispose of (4),
23 Fewer (4).
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in Inne ( Dastend. 13 Dear. H
Dleste.
10 Trakt
20 ese. 21 Re Down 1 Valk, 2 28 Trace, 25 Silden Cras t'onien, 6 Elders, & Tender, 11 Nitre, 12 Alone.
Deals. 25 tantie 23 Mar
14 Detect 15 Denes, la Atoll, 18 Themen, 19 toned, 32 Pasty. 23 Artar,
Di Sewri 4 1:02
cure-
return
him.
Lak
cor.
In Budapest dukes presented sword. with a twelled
Franz Liszt used strong-arm tactics
at the plano-and had the ladies swooning In the audience..
FRANZ LISZT
of revolution can convey, a thrill of hopes and enthusiasm. It is. 41.3 thress themes usually are, perpetually topical.
What would you and I know of Christianity if we had not the Gospels to refer to? Here Christianity
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as it struggled into life before those four crucial, books were in use.
At wis Here is Christianity as expounded by the wandering nastalors, the Sicut Corner all the agitator zatora-above named Paul (previously Baul), the converted enemy who, had the insight to see that. Jesus intended His Movement to be for Gentiles as well as Jew
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
the narra-
report from Constantinople, 2
Phillips, throwing 1838) Loewer has to close on á tive into straightforward 20th- melancholy note. The great days century English, challenges alike the piano Industry Intellectuals (does this sound
who over:
has settled down to a modest like a "myth"?) and church- existence in the age of radio minded (does this resemble the and gramophone.
churches of today?).
eyc
But in surveying the glorious past, LocsDET B
Lights on The story narrows down to the curious items of lore, compiling career of a single propagandist, soep-box dimesticita a book casier to browse in then Paul, the
who argued with the philoso- to read.
Athers, phers in
confronted King Agrippa at Caesarea; finally In Berlin, ono lady poured the
carried himself and his message dregs of the maestro's tea-cup
Rome. Pau's charer. into a private
another THE YOUNG CHURCH IN 19 vini;
with extraordinary carried in her bosom n
ACTION. A new Trans- clarity. Obviously hinh luchon end he had put down.
lation of the Acts. By J. (Luke, who may have been
Genüle B. Phillips. Blon. 10s. 6d. preek-speaking
Vert), was painting the portrait 110 pages.
of a man he knew well.
Hi.
chlef
cigar-
Flval, Thulberg.
tom
audiences
who had the advantage of being the legitimate son of a count and a baronrss, behaved wards his enslaved with appropriate hauteur.
IN REVIEW
Different virtuos!
the
Irom
emerges
A
соди
us is the story of the early rent narrative, dressing it in his Working over the New Tesia-, Turis
approachane idion,
days of the Movernent Among the seaboard cities of own crisp,
row hun- the translator lurns, the Mediterranean
There xened, indeed, to be a
"Then Agrippa said unto Paul, almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian," into "Much more of itus, raul, returneu agiippa,
Christian.TM
both theia dred people had become mem- soon to buy the next.
was Gottschalk, from bers; almost all of them were Other disea are old favourites New Oricans, who so impressed Jews. and classical numbers. whose
Queen of Spain that the sale is steady through the years.
Valladolid garrison passed in Que important feature of review before him; a bullfighter danger that the whole business and you will be making me a
Is that high; these latest dises
sent him his sword. By imitating might bog down into the found fidelity production
military parade on his pleno ing-and perhaps the fading registers a
of yet another Jewish sech Gottschalk brought a Madald dominated by Simon Peter and more perfect performance than the listener could hope to hear audience to its feet in a frenzy, under the titular leadership of
Minister of Agriculture was
Jamest in the concert hall.
heard to shout, "Long live the queen"
This is the moment when the wing back into circulation some- After tracing the advance of book we know as the Acts of the thing that has suffered somew.net the plane into the United States Apostles tales up the story. It from reverence and disregard. and Turkey ("few harems are has, the perpetual excitement of now without a pianoforte," came all carly beginnings. The dawn
An ancient
Florida's Allerney General monial drug of
the and a Palm Beach judge, Josophi Aztec Indians ot White, have made a surprise announcement. They believe the Central America has been
are moving discovered by psychiatrist Phoenix City men struggling
one of Into Florida--en masse, to combat modern men's most puzzling They also believe the gun- aflictions, schizophrenia.
Also, the long-playing records run for 20 minutes to half ad The psychiatrist is 36-y car. blers kidnapped and murdered
Judge C.E. Chillingworth Dr Humphrey
hour and they give Osmond, Charles Ferri, a State Molal, superintendent of a hospital at and their wives. Both men rendering of Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
strongly Boti-gambling; without a break.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"FELLOW CITIZENS
"OH STOP IT/ YOU DONT EVEN
KNOW IF THEY'LL CALL ON YOU
TO SPEAK /"
were
and
original
Q
fair
works
Delusions Of Grandeur
The
WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER ?"
BY
HARRY
21
WEINERT
SOME NEAR-SIGHTED CHARACTER THOUGHT
SHE WAS A MOVIE STAR AND ASKED
FOR HER
AUTOGRAPH.”
Anglican Phillips, ex-vicar ef St John's Redhill, has already appealed to half a million intel
lec.usis,
and chшeny-munúsd others. He has the lack of pui- i
THE UNEVEN ROAD, By Lord Beihaven, Murray, 21s. 335 pages.
INDOWED with a sharp visual
M
memory, Belhaven is a born |descripave writer. He nas had (the further good fortune of pass- |ing crucial years of ma kila za 4 region where many British, writers have found inspiration -the deserts of Arablak
From his own story of his life |ho emerges as one who was probably hard to get on with, at odds with his fanner (an octen- tric who became а "Sconish Fascist") and sometimes wan his superiors. He is also a muș of character and, courage, wno played his bart in a work of pacification among the tribes of Aden which does honour to the mumo of Britain.
Having lost a leg, his career in war was mitea; was not Finactive. He commanded a' feet jot matting vessels in the Red Sox and became guverntor of various Italian provinces. He wrreg with' humour and imagination,
HAND ME THE FINANCIAL
PAGE
OH WELL
WHAT'S A WEEKS SALARY
ANYWAY.
"-AND WE'RE
HAVING SHOWERS
INSTALLED
IN ALL
THE
GUEST #ROOMS.)
COPE. 1953 17, BENTRAL FEATURIE
CONF. FELWORLD KINKITS RESERVED.
HE
ANS THE ROOF LEAKS.
THE NEW PUP- GREAT DANE (7)
MAYBE A
DASH OF *** BUT IN THE' OWNER'S EYE. THE PERFECT. ÞOG.
COUNTING THE MILLIONS THAT WILL POUR IN ONCE
HE GETS HIS TERMITE TRAP
ON THE MARKET.
BOSWELL AND THE GRAND TOUR. Edited F. Brady and F. A. Potile, Heinemann.. 25x...363 pages.
ABRIM with good resolutions
and beset by falls from grace, Boswell continues; into Italy his Grand, - and aniorous, Tour: "Prepare mind by diacl- pline for Sepiland so as to fill tho post Providence gives you." Alas, for sich plous intentionat
He dangles discreetly round the court of the Jacobito Pro tender in Rome; is passionately (ax) undeservedly) loved by a Jody of quality in Siena. Ha had promised himself one in- trigue in Italy to increase my knowledge of the world."
Boswell's hunger for know- lódigo_wna fol too, easily up- poased.
On the journey home, he seduced. There Lo VamİLLI", mistress of his idol RousRPOTI J. The details must be guessed at. Boswell's ·literary" - exécutor marked the pinos in the Journin with tho words #reprehen
"Borwell's, deso before e selling the - máng