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THIS IS YOUR LIFE!

SIFT 2,000,000 PHOTOS FROM 68 LANDS

AND THIS IS THE WONDERFUL RESULT INTO

INTO London's Festival lovingly sifted by the Hall this month came Museum of Modern Art in 503 photographa which Now York. Says the constitute the most am Museum director, and ex- bitious, challenging, aad hibition promoter, Edward uxulant record of people Steichen: "It was conceived since photography began. as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions in the 'everydayness' of life throughout the world.

Every picture portrays people; every picture tells the glory of one moment, ia the universal experiences, we all share between birth and dying.

For Whmost three yeam wo worched every corner of the with for these immage: tervened them 11 we

10,000

Then

Wo had

came the almost un-

The exhibition ... titled "The Family of Man" is bourable task of reducing them

to 303

the cream, the quintess42*310*(* The Chain Mail today sifta of more than

TWO further to present you a review

of this meter work

a review. ashlek, BIN 4 mirror to on lingettable moments in all

MILLION photographs col.

lected from 68 countries of the world and patiently and

lives.

⚫ THIS IS YOUR ROMANCE: this is the moment when only the rhythm of the jazz kept you dancing beenuse you weren't listening to the tune or the You were listening to love. (But just the

.. can you ever forget that tume?)

crooner.

same

THE MOST EXCITING

PICTURES EVER ́ SHOWN

THIS IS YOUR QUARREL: this the moment when the space between two people on a park bench was immeasurable. And the park was unbeautiful. And the world was empty until you made it up. Or pretended to

D

SAM WHITE LOOKS IN AT

CANAL H. Q.

An official sighs for the days of

the Pashas

ESPITE the storm is

future has provoked In the outer world, a distinctly mid Victorian calm reigns at the Suez Canal Company's headquAP- ters in Paris.

A visitor has the sensa tion of intruding premises.

PARIS newsletter

appointinent to its Paris staff.

J has

appointed Mr Roland

THIS IS YOUR WAR: this is your Dunkirk, your Tobruk, your Cassino, " your Arnhem

your blitz.

This is the moment you were first forced to contemplate death as a daily reality. And your eyes were a mirror

Two cities side by side without an inch of ground between them, except at one point where a little court remains aloof from both

One Step From Diamonds To A Sanctuary

By S.

FIELDS

important visitors are ness The bequest was the out wined and dined by the come of legal complications that lord Mayor and Aldermen tenure of a temporary

concerning

had arisen

their

London

you asked the average person which are the two cities in the world that

stand closest It also contains workers residence.

to each other, numbered by the million in

In The 18th century The the answer the daytime, and only four

half thousand re- town residence, but today, as in Bishops of Ely transferred their might and given possibly be sidents by night.

THIS IS YOUR FIRST GAME OF CARDS; the day you first grasped the dazzling conceptions (and deceptions) of chance and luck and gambling.... this was very innocent but at the time nothing seemed more exaggeratedly "grown up" and so your face oxaggerated the way you felt the kick of it. And somehow, now, no game has the same electric thrill.

FRANCOISE SAGAN

"A bit of a prude."

Penrose to the post which has Cecile, the heroine of Françoi:e

The solitary American mem- ber of the board is Mr S. P. year's President of club Tuck, this On

Club in Paris, im. the Truv.llers' and former US. Ambassador Housed in a handsome, four- to Card storty grey-stone building in

The

Sagan's best-selling novel "Bon- jour Tristesse." Mlle. Fran- theme, a flaxen-haired, green- She la

for the French sereen.

remained unfilled for some time

Senior Fine Arts Office." Mr Fenrose, a wealthy man, is himself both a patron of the eyed beauty, is a new discovery arts and a painter, Ho is

He the complete counterpart physi- Surrealist, He is also a close catly of the heroine of the book. friend of Picasso, and is at The Gim will be directed by present working on a book of Otto Freminger, and work on it

The job sounds pleasant.

begin เก the autumn. Mr Penrose,

already Meanwhile who

Mile Sagan is spends a great deal of his time Me

the film permanent administra. in Paris, will now spend six having trouble with the heart of Paris's West End, tive head

For company for which she is writ- of the company is months of the year here.

the dialogue of a screen its Athenacum-like quality

Jacques this he will be paid a salary of version M.

onc of Colette's heightened by its solid leather-year-old

Georges-Picot, a member of a more than £2,400 a yðar, and

and novels. upholstered armchairs, the 19th surguis bext and talented this will, of course, an eloquent The dialogue in the novel is

family. Tali, and a Mr Penrose pays an the walls, and the dignified air Arzt-class tennis player, he tribute to the high cost of living in Colette's best bawdy vela. heads an all-French permanent in Paris is so expensive "clean up some of the dialogue. in Paris, which I endorse. He Mile, Sugan fell obliged to that I shall have to supplement This has earned her the disap- ITS FEARS FADED

salary with

own proval of the director, who has Although

commented immediately after

sharply, "I Britons, meet annually, and fol-

money." ut low their meeting with an the abrogation the Anglo-

ofraid thai Mille. Sagan is a bit of Egyptian Treaty five years ago, AT THE DENTIST of a prude,"

company feared that would be nationalised, its fears faded to vanishing point as they A Paris is in August is pro- successive agreements vided by a report of a man who signed The official who received me with Nasser.

was trapped in his dentist's looked gently shocked, "I'm The latest one, signed only in waiting-room, atruld not," he said. iwo da

century prints which deca

decorale French

its stall.

of the uniformed attendants. Could I take a look wish famous bourd-room where the are

32 directors, of whom we

excellent lunch, the cost

which is deducted from

£7,000 a year salary?

GENTLY SHOCKED

not

their

110

would

suys:

my

my

N indication of how deserted

M, Picord win to see his. really like that kind of June, made the company feel thing. He went on in Als best completely confident that Nasser dentist who was so preoccupied allow its jease of the with his plans to leave that day Canal to run for the remaining on holiday that he forgot about his. patient waiting in the wait-

Foreign Office manaër.

every

difficult situation. I'm afraid I cannot say much. We are really dealing with a new kind of Egypto-class types; careeze Not like the old Turkish pashas we once negotiated with."

Tho list of directors IN studded with Dames like the Dua d'Audlffrot-Pasquier, the Baron L. de Benolst and

12 years.

This June agreement Involves

the company in the promise to ing-room.

vest 218 million in Egypt and onls in than the periodi

the Initial contribution

After reading all

something

of Picord Anally became uneasy, £8,000,000 is now deposited in and fatand not only that the a Cairo bank.

was descried, but Ho Not only the company was hier

been locked in by tho confident of the future, but so absent-minded dentist.

was the Parla Stock The police were summoned the Exchange. The Canal shares by phone and he was rescued, Vicomte de Rohan, There a remained steady right up to the only to remember heavy sprinkling of KCB and time of Nasser's declaration of which he had forgotten in the CMG Britain's chief ro nationalisation-a fact which panic. presentative on the board le has for ever cured me of any toothache, Kir. Alexander Cadogan, former permanent hond of the Foreign Office.

The Chairman i Gim, prescience. Gyost-old. M. Francois Charles-

Roux, former Tranch Ambas wador to the Vatican,

in Haith

Stock

Exchange

A SURREALIST

He still had his,

NEW DISCOVERY, ・・ A 17-your-old university stud THE BRITISH COUNCIL has A cat Cleole Frenchomme has Just made an interesting been chosen to play the role of"

am

QUOTE OF THE WEEK COMEDIAN Jean Rigaux: · A psychiatrist is a man who Folies Bergere to goca to the look at the audience)

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SEGRID YOU WON'T

DO ANYTHING- DRASTIC TO MICHAEL? HE'S JUST A FOOL

DANGEROUS FOOL, LET THE COURTS DECIDE.

MANDRAKE! HOW COULD YOU IMAGINE I'D ELOPE WITH MICHAEL OR ANYONE ELSE?

IN THIS PALACE SUDDENLY REALIZED

YOU'RE A PRINCESS-- YOU SEEMED DIFFERENT

The past, Ely Place is a repose-

Its

the capital of The other is the larger ful sanctuary In the thick of a Hungary City of Westminster,

in district which teems with traffic, crowds and city Budapest, which the Abbey and

the shopping

workers through the business which is in Houses of Parliament are hours ill the homeward “rush" reality com- located.

to the suburbs begins. posed of two At all points where the

Ely Place is jealous of communi- two cities Join you pass privileges, reserved for those Buda from one to the other with who now occupy the buildings the right out knowing it, unless you which enclose it and shut it away bank of the happen to be observant from the clamour of the worka- Danube,

unauthorised world. No and enough to notice that the day

person can "park" a car there. Pest On the policemen's armbands and A non-residents are banished left bank.

ties,

on

But the answer would be

helmets are different.

Ely Place

incorrect. AL one point, however,

Greater

from its narrow precincts at a respectable hour which closing ume for રી. quaint seventeenth

The Milre,"

century tavern, situated in the

Lon- there is a tiny area which alley that leads to the street of the diamond merchants, Hatton don has two is distinct both from the Garden, only a step away. cities within City of London and the City its boundaries, of Westminster.

though even most doners

hardly

to their tention.

One

la the

within

"The Muire," by its name, recalls the association of Ely It is a quiet "backwater" Pince with the Bishops of old. Lon- known as Ely Place, whose It is notable, 100, for a cherry are main entrance is marked by tree which rises through one of

its barrooms, preserved aware pretentious gates and # # glass case. of it until the porter's lodge. It can also fact is brought be approached by an aid. Sealed Off

at- world, twisting passageway

Whom "The Mitre" closes for which leads from Hattone night and speeds the last Garden, internationally re-

of its patrons on their way, the nowned as a street of dla porter of Ely Pince makes fast true City of mond merchants, where you the gates to seal it off in London,, an hear the speech of Holland privacy from the rest of the

great capital. of less intermingling with the Eng corner in the heart of a huge than seven fish and Hebraic languages metropolis becomes wrapped in hundred

as groups of men talk in silence--and dreams, perhaps, of acres in ex terms of precious stones and for-off years when the palace of play neverthe-

on the thronged pavements...spitre,

represents less contains

Ely Place WAR bequeathed famous

character In English such famous centuries ago to the Bishops of history John of Gaunt — an buildings at St Ely, whose diocese is some 80 dying at Ely Place, where Gaunt Paul's Cathe miles from London, because it in fact seems to have rented towards the dral and the was the site of a town house or accommodation

slayed close of his life from the prelate historic Guild when they visited the capital who was Bishop at that time, hall, where on Important ecclesiastical busi-

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area

Then this little

tent, which do business with one another Ely's bishops stood there. hla

"hostell' at which they

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

NOW--DO I

STILL SEEM' DIFFERENTI

NO, JUST THE BAME--THANK GOODNESS!

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