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BOOKS
FOR CHRISTMAS
ROLLICKING MAC
AND THE PAGAN GIRLS
By ROBERT PITMAN
*ITH hollow cycs,
from high in the roof, the skull
the
looked down.
A British Crossword Puzzle A
PUTER SLUMBERK
CANDOLENT
The
appreciative eye: Malcolm. Macdonald
with a Singapore moquaintance.
But
tre reserves an even more up-
But the head-hunters in From such reports wo already As Commissioner-Generat ho
hut below were
on impression not get
of Mae keeps an appreciative eye On thinking of their trophies donald as the century's gayest the wild men of Borneo.
imperialist. among the rafters. While And дом a charming and preciative eye for their wild lampa flickered, while amusing book by Macdonald doughters.
music primitivé
(BORNEO whinet, himself,
PEOPLE, 3%. Bd.)
confirms the they
watching were
the Cape,
Impression to the hilt couple dancing.
Not that grioty in this book's #ole topic. Macdonald has his They were watching therious moments too. swaying, bare-footed girl. Even more tensely they
her were watching
part
ner.
over neen,
He was the most
ile was almost
im-
a
DEPARTED N portant mortal they had
A
A ASPS god.
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3 Skeps (8).
B Chaste (4).
Lazy (8).
11 Dead und gone (B).
13 Reptiles (4).
15 Numeral (8).
18 Enlisted
(8).
10 Grant (4). 21 Cruzy (8). 25 Begged (8).
20 Scheme (4).
27 Merited (8),
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AGENTS IN HONG KONG :
Lane Crawford's
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
TWO CENTS SAYS HERE'S ANOTHER CHARACTER WHO WANTS TO KNOW
WHAT TO GIVE A GIRL
WHO HAS EVERYTHING
"LAST YEAR HE GAVE
ME A BOOK/ ME WHAT DOES HE THINK
I AM ? A BOOKWORM /*
را شکر که تیم
COUNSELOR
ONE
HUNTIN
DOG
FOR A
SMALL BOY!
THE BACHELOR UNCLE KNOWS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF HIM
AND THERE IS NOTHING. YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
SIZE FORTY,
I GUESS- OH, USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT
A
DOWN
1 Imitated (4).
2 Suare (4).
4 Advanced in fast time (4).
5 State of mir₫ (4),
6 Smooths ou; (5).
7 Over-tistes (5).
Angry (0).
10 Subinit to (5)
12 Bes; purt (5).
14 Portion (5).
16 Come in (5).
10
17 Observed (5).
19 Intent (0).
20 Drugs (5).
21 Obstinate (4).
22 Lake (4).
23 Narrative (4).
24 Finished (4),
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:~Across: 1 Damped, 4 Spree, 7 Medio- tor. 8 Oplae, Recess, 11 Treated, 13 Release 15 Entree. 10 Pound, 19 Lutered, 20 Ended 1 Gusher. Down: Demur. 2 Prise, 3 Detests.
Nepute, 4 Struve, 5 Register, Extend, 10 Cultured. 12 Reeling, 13 Akiledi. 10 Trees, 17 Eider.
COFL. ITS BY GENERAL FEATURES" COL..TMYFORID NIGHTS RESERVED,
"DON'T YOU HAVE
ANYTHING LESS RUSTIC RA
The Gift Problem
12-18
~ER-SHE'S ABOUT.
·50 HIGH •
12
He was the Honourable Malcolm donald, Britain's missioner - General Southeast Asin.
HE TELLS US about Borneo people car their living. (One village makes int profits from reifing edible birds' nests to the Chinese.)
HE TELLS US about Borneo morais. (Trial muriages- several if necessary are tho accepted thing for teenagers.)
HE TELLS US how Borneo Right reacted to Japanese occupation. 1945 two British agenis, Mac- In Com- dropped in the jungle, contacted an important tribal chief. But for the chief gaid he would have to consult his people before help- ing them against the Japanese.
WILD MEN
danc- Yet here he was,
sweat poured, ing till the
at a pagan feast in deepest Borneo.
UPSIDE DOWN
For two anxious days the agenta wakted in their Jurmele hilde-out Would the ngree? Or would he decide to
man
get a big reward by betraying them to the Japanese instead?
Then at nigh; a plash of oars woke
the tronts. The chief
It is a typical episode from the Macdonald story. For 25 unbroken years this rollicking son of Ramsay was coming with_his_warriors, Mac has held high political As friend or fos? office. He has served under had brought his answer six different Prime Minis sack-14 Japanese heads. ters, for Cabinets of all political shades.
But there is one thing he
He has never done,
has never at any time behaved like an elder statesman.
The man
In
#
But stories like this take second place to what is virtually the central theme of Mar-
Women,
donald's book.
Some of those girls are dark- skinned, Some src ineroty cafe-au-lait, With the rest of
connoisseur, asscribes them oil.
Macdonald
Sample: "She had lơng blad): hair and honey-coloured skļu Her eyes were dark and slaňi- Jug, and ahe bad sweetly- modelled nose and a delicious mouth she swayed her bips with a gentle, graceful move-
ment."
THEIR REACTIONS
Their official reactions to tha Commissioner-General himself are also noted.
Of onc girl: "She solited front her supplion! posture before me and reclined at my side."
Of another "She tilted her fuce to be kissed."
Of tlarco
*1 klased them gently in farewell."
With these joies and their families Macdonald-clad In khalu drill or In pagan rituni dress-mixed happily. He gave them advice on domestic prob- lerns. He took photos of every- one.
And
photos Borneo.
cf
he now adds these
lo his account
They are as brilliant as those in his two carller books.
One book, you may remem- ber, was on Canada. Tho
other? On bird-watching.
FOR THE CHILDREN By NÀNCY SPAIN
It is said, for example, that he once entertained the King of Slam by walking upside down on his hands. It is said that he opened 2
trousers in front of the sembled dignitarles and plung- ing Into the club's pool in the red bathing trunks thus revealed.
new clubhouse in Now for Singapore by taking off hia
45-
books.
Tottenham
For itle furniture shops In children, Many famous Court Road, more famous q people drop their more gormal writer of adult plays has pro- ploys in order to "Catel the duced THE HUNDRED AND Christmas Market" with a chil-, ONE DALMATIANS (Heine- dren's book,
manh, 10. Bd.),
For example, Dodie Smith, formerly buyer in one of the
BY
HARRY
A
WEINERT
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE HIT OVER THE HEAD TO
FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FAMILY WANTS – THE BIG PROBLEM IS HOW TO CLAW YOUR WAY OUT FROM UNDER THE BILLS -
"ME, I ALWAYS
GIVE 'EM
MONEY AND
LET'EM BUY
WHAT THEY
WANTA
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF SANTA CLAUS
"WHAT ARE
WE GIVING
THE BLOSS
THIS YEAR
"HOW ABOUT -A ONE-WAY TICKET TO
In this, Mr and Mrs Dearly live ia A house in Regent's Park. They have two dal- matians called Pongo and Missta,
Pongo and Missis have pup- pics who are stolen by Cruella de Vil (devil, see?) who wants to make them into a fur coat.
Pongo and Missio Bet out to rescue 97 puppies all waiting to --- be skinned,
I genuinely wanted to read on and find out what happened next,
But this doesn't alter the fact that I think a 10-year-old would bo just as nauseated by the oc- casional "soppiness" as I was,
THE MONEY THEN there is 57-year-old
Louis MacNelee," who more usually writes very, very
ad- vanced poetry. His contribution to the Christmas Market is THE SIXPENCE THAT ROLLED AWAY, (Faber, 10s, Od.), with illustrations by a master of the black and white, Edward Baw- dco.
A sixpence and a shilling and a half-crown and a: "ten shilling note and a pound' all' live together in a money box,
One day the sixpence falls into a mouse hole. It is rescuta 'by the half-crown and alling
with the help of some
other toys.
I can't say I was dazed by the glory of the MacNeko text, but I was really upset by Edward Bawden: Only, alt. short years, ago he was quoted as saying, as he turned down, an invitation to 'illustrato a children's book: "Tiny tols bore me slift!!!
Of these two writers, Mac Neice is the only one who has children.“”. So, maybe he did his the hard way, he of bedtime, told to the children,
OTHER TASTES
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@ {GRIUKET' CROSSFIRE Keith Miller; "Memoirs which ulzzio Ílica'n bright new ball off. the seam (Oldbourne, 13. pd.)
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