POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
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honestly don't know the must which 4641 convincing rattle-Sir Anthony's abre or Mr. Dulles's money-box!"
PARADE
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER - 27, 1956.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT. PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
and .vacations
Tho committee, headed by EXECUTIVE The American takes long SUITE
business executive manages mysteriously to yet in Sociallet M. Alexandre Baurens, current mid- protested against the in probably the n lot of golf, often in
temperance campaign Tho most talked about man in the work. country but, until recently, he
majority said it was really an cumpalgn. They was almost wholly n Agure of
anti-wine mythology-shadowy but some-
also wanted to know where the how omnipotent, the man In
campaign funds come from. the grey flannel sult."
a
Now the American Manage mont Association has done
study
214 top of I detailed
are some executives and here of the facts:
Executives were asked why they sought the jobs they had and mon rald they thought It was "fan" to run a big business organisation or that they liked thisiga without inter-
RING Girls at Greenville to "m ference.
попр Almost
mentioned CODE High School, Mississippi, have started a craze for money as an incentive,
Rhinestones pins other respects, In
they may wearing two The average executive is 45, have been slightly more forth to her at a glance how they
right. The questionnaire asked bro fixed for boy friends,
The code: "Looking," the pins them to name their two main
"Interested" the Interests. One answered, blunt- are parallel.
pins are crossed at the tips. ly: "Wine and women,"
"Going steady," the pins are completely crossed. "Hooked," the pins are worn horizontally with the points nearly meeting.
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went
university, has worked for 20 years, and corns between $20,000 and $30,000 year.
He may work as much as 75 or 8 hours week--but he
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16 Value (0).
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22 Sofien (4).
23 Wound mark (4).
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Boston court THANK YOU!
last week, the, judes turned to the jury al the end of a long trial and said:
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And if she is feuding with her boy, the girl wears the pins The Commonwealth (ot an angle with the points Massachusetts) thanks you for as your costrage.' It sounded very slanted Inwards." odd in the staid old court
at WOT, NO Burglars who broke the where
concepta Justice have grown slowly but CAVIARE? Into the home of Paris diplomat mirely ever the centuries.
while ho was on holiday raided the larder and made a meal of gras and champagn. pate fois Remains of the fenst
Bul In Tuci, no less than 1.400 potential Jurymen Leen one through before 12 could be found to serve,
men for the
And
on all kinds
of
That
Uses, In truth, most feared gangland violence If they sat in
jury.
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SWIPED It was
away CLEAN
laundry Amerleans drive
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in
a clean get. at
auto on
where their cars la
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A BEST-SELLING MOTHER BRINGS HER DAUGHTER INTO THE ACT...
BOOKS
BY NANCY SPAIN
all their own... tonal at all costs!"
title conventions But they're unconven-
She day!--
The arty cok-duffel coals,
hair-now turns
jeane, akppy Joes, and remed
beard
fower heada
And she has sent me an excel- I thought I should
lent article by her daughter, remember hairdo and not too much can be. you "Cold
High le Comfort soap) set of teenagers. And feel better as I went on,
the Hampstead and but," despairingly, "I don't" Laura Wobb, which appeared in Of course she cleans them up. Farm"?
the It has FxCx And then she sat down.
have She also embarks upon a you do. A brilliant
with her affair,
In 1933 she married Allan "Bohemians were take-off of the pretentious love
determined to of parents' disapproval and her Bourne Webb. In 1985 she Jury was trying eight found when the servants of M."Sussex Gorse" kind
Thomas de Carranzo, Brink's Manusi great
secretary at the Spanion book.... it sold 28,000 of own dislike of his pseudo- had a daughter, Laura. And robbery case involving the theft t
herself potential anbassy, made preparations for its first edition, had topped Bohemianism stunding be- ever since then she has and the lived, quietly writing, in +1 $2,776,305.
450,000 in 1950, and is still tween
Highgate. Juryman after Juryman bowed his return.
The well-fed burglars took
than a Scotsman in a kili. print, merrily clocking young man she loves. int discreetly
no valuables.
It was to me unthinkable
Bohemian favours 0 up 40,000 per edition.
Stella Gibbons's gift is
She
and long hair, tight can, that Stella Gibbons should The special. years very It was written 24
writing have been frequenting the trousers, a scarf fucked into an is ago by shy, mild, 54-year- whether she
for metal satire, make coffee bars, the jazz clubs, open stiri, and sundals; his girl handsome Stella Gib romance
And the squalid cellars, in order friend has a liking She complains that order out of chaos.
averse are
ta
• Bohemians her life has been dogged by what is more chaotic than to write descriptions like and pottery jewellery.
• working at a régulur job.......... "Cold Comfort Farm." the mind and heart of a girl this:
• "There they sat: the large,
this reason they are of 1 write any or boy in the teens? "Every time
dirty girls in flowing skirts and and for
habitually hardup, a fzet gets compared thing, it
Not many speeches bead jewellery, and the demets, which they cannot help but be
drain pipes and duffel coats, proud. with that."
for making fortunes brooding Not much sleep... the pinners of fantastic plans silently over a newpaper with unwashed hair falling across (in the case of the ghts who in living naturally) unpowdered theres...."
The trial ended with all eight of the accused going to gool for life.
In
RAINING Telephones started poncu PIGEONS ringing
West stations Buenos Aires when puzzled re- sidents found it was raining All told, nearly 3,000 pigeons. carrier pigeons dropped dead Rufino, between the town of 350 miles west of Buenos Aires, and Buenos Aires.
at one end for them to emerge old,
washed and dried at the other bons. in about three minutes.
Mrs Marcla Spelre took her laundry in new car to such a Newark, New Jersey, but a man told her that she was at the exit instead of the entrance.
He offered 10 drive the ear round for her, said as he took the wheel: "My, this is a nice car." He has not been scen since,
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HSLEW Angry BAD
in
of
been sent by The birds had
frein
Airer Buenos rut
parenis *
children who took an Itufino for a championship rues.
aptitude spelling test Due to u oversight they were placed in a-hermetically scaled
language called "Halew Deven-hour far The wagon
released the Journey When birds were in such a poor con dition that the majority died
en route,
And she has a new novel,
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NOW, what equipment has Stella Gibbons to write week this
called out
BE DRAGONS" about teenagers? "HERE
and Stoughton; (Hodder
She was born 168.). I think it is mag-
nificent.
So, of course, I am going
in Singapore this werk asked to compare the two books. education authorities: What is Education Halew? Ministry's
The andwer: Hslow in Welsh spelt backwards,
The spelling test was devised by a Unesco ometal, His name: Bernard Speling.
Not much soap
I
a doctor's believed
daughter in North London,
.
THAT is Laura Webb on the
Young Boterin
Now here
15 her mother, Siella Gibbons,
on the tame thing. characters says:
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One of her
cannot have
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about
We've
went to the North London
Not any more
• One simply Collegiate School for Girls
brilliant, accurate parents....nagging and University College, THIS $5
I've been there working regularly reporting. London. Then she became
But I also discovered, you sec, that {'m too, and I know.
live without food So I possible to Sicia Gibbons. secretary to the Editor of know
you've only money asked her; up and "When were you fast in a coffee somewhere to rit down indoors became she IN "Cold Comfort Farm," the Evening Standard. And rang her
tidy- then
bur?"
in the winter.... You con sleep. delightful, THEIR French schoolboys have
"but
quite well with your head on my "Never," she said minded girl called Flora journalist. She, dislikes per- RICHT right to water daced
much daughter Latin, who is 21 this your arms on a table.... Post went to stay with the sonal publicity so with wine with their
she was year used to tell me all about decided the
she was in with mea is
A Frenchman driving awful slummocky Starkad- that once, the CRASH o! connenitice
and
them. She's not any more, determinedly accepting the Femina Vie them when an 18-ton lorry in aders General Assembly this week. SHOCK
fog at Le Havre this cleaned them up.
Heureuse Prize for the thank goodness. She's going to Speakers
said children have
10 through crushed their week to right much
window display their undertaker's humbleful of wine as
and was knocked unconscious. parents have lo a bottle of vin
found When he came to he ordinaire.
himself surrounded by wreaths,
canicen drinks
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They took a poor view of an
clrcular Ministry Education cutting wine off the menu.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
JUST ABOUT THE TIME ONE'S NERVES ARE RELAXED JUNIOR IS BACK FROM CAMP
WITH THE HIVES AND ASSORTED LIVESTOCK
"DID THAT
SUIT SHRINK |OR ARE YOU
GAINING WEIGHT?
THE SUMMER IS NEARLY
OVER-AND NOTA - MINUTE TOO SOON.
VACATION OVER ALREAD
coffins, and headstones.
Ho collapsed again.
when
......But affection
In "Here Be Dragons" a "best imaginative work of marry a very nice young man THERE is, too, a hint that on
Then Laura must be a very delightful, tidy-minded girl the year" and had to make and we're very pleased." called Nell finds herself in- a short speech, she said: good reporter," I said.
of you
"Yes," ald her mother, "I volved with a raffish (jeans, "I don't think any
horse's tail realise how long 10 minutes think she is.” blue coats,
Heavens! How Time Flies!
YOU'RE NO SOONER SETTLED' IN THE SUMMER COTTAGE THAN IT'S TIME TO LEAVE, AND THE AGENT BARGES IN TO CHECK THE CHEESE GLASSES AND. OTHER CROCKERY BEFORE INVITING YOU TO RENT, THE PLACE NEXT YEAR.
COFR. 1956 BY GÉNÉRAL, FEATURES
CORF. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
I'M AFRAID
THIS SUMMERBY
RACED BY LIKE A SNAIL
WELL, WE MADE IT HOMER FROM NOW ONIM JOINING'AS
VACATION CLUB VE
BY HARRY WEINERT
IT SEEMS ONLY YESTERDAY IT WAS A BATTLE TO GET HER TO KEEP ANY PAIR OF SHOES ON HER FEET—AND NOW
SHE WANTS HIGH HEELS.
JUST WHEN YOÚ THINK YOU. HAVE-'EM,
ALL LINED UP IT'S TIME FOR THE
WINTER REPLACEMENTS'
TO REPLACE THE
SUMMER
REPLACEMENTS.
OA SURE- LIKE THE
CHRISTMAS CLUB YOU
DIDNT DOIN?
the fringes of this pathetic, ill-dressed, untidy, dirty, half- collection of fairly starved
get innocent children there is n distinctly criminal.
Our papers are always full of?
teenagers. Many, delinquent many words have already been spined over mixed-up Idds. But this is the first time that an English love story has been written (and In such unusual and happy collaboration (oo) with a background of jazz clubs and coffee bars.
More Important, this is the Irst time that such a story has been done with affection.
This novel is a delightful "Romeo and Juliet" of the rock 'n' roll. Mother and daughter have most trium- phantly brought it off. And trom the bottom of my heart I congratulate them,
SOME OTHER NEW BOOKS
HERE ore 162 other books
Tihed
this week, of which I enjoyed:—
THE STRANGE ENCHANT- MENT. Geoffrey Cotterell (Eyra Spottiswoode, 188) A
and
good novel about a girl called Isabel who has enormous made) todent. Her strange enchantment is that, not matter what, she is determined to be a fallure, Although she meets. many, delightful characters, gets married twice, this makes the story basically a gloomy one.
ONE JUMP AHEAD, PAÍ Smythe (Cassell, 13s. Od.): Con inuation of the life story of the Sportswoman of All the Years. New, photographs of Misa S. playing the guitar md riding a camel make a nice shinge from the usual ones of ber jumping slap over the jump, suspended In mid-air on Prince Hat and so on. But your home-mad daughter will like these, best.
LADY BE HAVE, Anno Edwards, and Drusilla Reyfus (Carsoll, 218.): First-chic ildo
to good modern behaviour in ally the od situation: tharing: bed-sitting room, cobin, fiat, Conducting a love affair, stop- ping aman telling stories, escaping from telephone bores. Bert recommendal Co-author Exwards is of courss The Monday morning - Daily Express columnist..
SOFA CARRIAGES- AND KINGS, F. 3. GloryÉ. CWISEL Allen, 10s.)!" A. footman started fe in the Dookeries Brid had-ˆà rure good timer or it, even when hawn waiting on royalty" Oremmed,with,, stan hapa, a little bit,tenet BU THE ENEMY
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