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On The Move
QIXTEEN
million Americans one Ameri can in 10 will move house during the next
months.
two
The great shuffle is the largest ever recorded, even in this. country of people perenialty on the move.
The Agures have been com piled by the country's big moving enn companies. They may, therefore, be on the curre pervative side. For many more Americans will Yent or borrow their own trucks, pile their own belongings on them. and move themselves,
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The average family will move 000 miles and it will cost them $350 to take their ton and half of personal possessions with them. Many frmilies, of course, will move many times that dis- tanec.
to
Florida
Califoris is a favourite mitel for families, who like the sunshine but are jud bored with the scenery. Both states part from getting
quite a number of wanderers from
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THE MYSTERY CLUB
The
No. 2 in an exciting new series
LEFT-HANDED
BARBER
MY wife's mother," Plunbridge said, "is the sort of
"Hogarth?" Dyalt asked “The painter?"
"Yes I've always been fond
of Hogarth, both as painter and engraver, but there seemed no reason why he should bợp up into my mind now, He certainly was pretty hadn't been mentioned, and 1
"Mifer who is constantly finds herself in sure that there
reliable cook?"
possession of treasures. And my story starts from that."
Treasures?" I asked. "Do you mean domestica the utterly unobtrusive parlour-maid and the wholly
Plumbridge shook his head. "Not at all. I speak literally. But perhaps I ought to say that the good soul constantly believes herself to be finding treasures. Some times there's something in it, and sometimes there isn't.
"She has inherited, yet red, it
i
one another's territories, į large house absolutely crammed will get the lion's share of thuse with junk. Collectinste rather, moving from other States.
heer acquisitiveness → rum in her husband's family for gencsa- tions. And now all the stuff li hers,
Americans are moving in in- creasing numbers out of the cold and the wet and into the yan- shine. Some states in the north ore nettally losing population,
Servicemen,
on Tapsell's walls.
even distructed me from what "This strange little problem Tapsell had said about my draw ing, and it was only later in the day that I found myself chowing over that. About the hatching, you know."
"Didn't you,** asket, *aly something about bables coming out of CTES I suppose Tapseli meant that they weren't emerg- "But it'dkln't appear to kecu ing in
proper Locharða him very sweet-tempered. I had manner.", misaniculate tire
aad hour,
To
considerable die when Gunton showed me in couture, Plumbridge received, I found Tapseli siting in n this with a foar of laughite, sort of dressing-room, being
the
עית
"My dear chap," he said, "not
London Exproan Sejmiers;
Bring a better razor or you'll be fired.
intershaved by a professional barber, that kind of machina cu C09500SSOCESSEDEDS)
"She is spending her years very happily, exploring i
was referring to the the parallel
lines with which in a drawing plex of unconscious un artist suggests his shadow. flons."
Elriel
socia- somehow to take the place of the regular and genuine barber, the thing was simpliclly itself."
There was a morgent's silence, and then 'Appleby spoke for the first time,
"And what is raror
than a cead donkey," he asked, "s, in fact,
2 left-handed barber? Plumbridge nodded "That's my friend Grimwood
10 pointed out
me. In this
"And I saw, when I'd rollertad "Anti- that's all?" on the matter, that the old boy nakad "Te told the fellow that his had some right to be rather EXPERT ADVICE nzor was on blunt as a spoon, short with me. I had been un- and that if he didn't bring a Commonly forgetful. For better one next day he'd be Leonardo ju famous as the fired,
greatest artist definitely known to have been entirely left -handed. And it's his hatching
that reveals the fact, HOGARTH
le riche-cupboar by cup. "He seemed a harmless man, of course,
he-board and room by room, Elrick but he was a substitute for the count for a large number of knows about her, I think. He's one who came regularly and the men on the move. But the [her lawyer."
Tapsell wasn't pleased with him, biggest single group are the men
The sollellor nodded, "1 ctr- who are being moved by their tuinly know your mother-in-law, employers.
When her discoveries are in the nature of old documents, she always brings them along to me. rather think she hopes to find herself one day in possession of the title-dreds of the British Murcum or the Albert Hall, But polking very remarkable has
Plumbridge nodded. "Well, al turned up so far. She tells me, lonat I didn't keep him from however, that It has
been long. He took a single glance at different in the field of art." the drawing, and fossed it back
"And so it has," Plumbridge to me. Leonardo?" he said, Stuff tald. "There were real cop- and nonsense, man! Fiddlesticks poisseurs in the family at one time and another, and as
Just look at the hatching. Good a day to you, And out I went." ContEqquence we have had some
Decentralisation has become the fashion in
industry and many firms are retting up brauch plants far away from the tradi- ional industrial
The areas. new plents usually offer better climates, better housing. and more salubrious surroundings in which to bring up children.
Foreign Aid
Well, the battle over foreign
aid goes on and on and uns.
It ins now reached what might be
"An unpromising situation." Eiriek said. "But, after all, poor old Tapsell hadn't even had his coffee."
called the Congress genuine ads. 1 ray we because, ELUSIVE MEMORY
ional silly season.
For instance, it was revealed this week that some US, ald
chau gone to provide dress suits
for Greeks undertakers.
when anything of the surti
now.'
"When I'd recalled this and taken another took at the draw- ing, my own technical know budge was sufficient to tell me that it was 'ceriaily by right-handed droughtsman."
There was a short silence, "Most interesting Byatt ald. "But I don't quite Bee where
Hozarth comes in."
"Not at all. It so happened that I travelled up to town quite early that morning with chap culled Grimwood who is a profesiór of psychology. 1
the tuld him clicumstances,
"And, when I'd finished, in- teresting was the first word h uttered," Interesting he said. Vory interesting indeed. For you've seen, you
knów, some thing a good deal rarer than a dead donkey"
what
pen. They'd be too dangerous country they simply don't hap- because of the way they'd knock up against the next fellow in the shop."
"But," I said, "It was different in the
century. cighteenth "And then he looked at h Hogarth had observed one." watch. Getting on for your
Plumbridge shook his head. friend Tapwell's rather belated Not a bit of it Hogarth's ch saving time, he said. I'd pay gravings went straight on the him
another visit I I. | in question. she always brings
were copper, So in the print, you see, Plumbridge paused to pour
you." me in. If one's on
every image was ¡eversed," artist, himself a glass of port, "Well, supposed one knows about art,
"So I did," he said. " wins Plumbridge glanced from
ane straight aiong pausing only to to another of us, he presently continued, "And do you know about must make clear what may
"Has any of Another item was the proviert?" Byak, our surgeon, asked story is really about.
pick up a policeman as a comer.
you," ho asked, "ever been sion of public baths for Egyptian mildly,
Wo, arrived ist in ime to nab shaved by a Kft-handed man?" "As I came comel drivers.
Alway from
that harmless barber as he was Thero was 11 thoughtful Plumbridge cheerfully shook Toprell's I found myself grobing
making off with some of Tup silence, and then Erick spoke. These tilbits, naturally, do head. "A popular portrait after something and I'd seen
sull's best thinga,
"Yes," he said. "But it was in -hat impress the voter and the Painter-Lord help him-hasn't there. Moreover what I'd seen
"He'd persuadet Tapsell to Sicily." administration is desperately try-
much time to be an art his hitched on to tomething quite
Send Ganten out on a fool'r ing to get the public to keep
tacion. But, of course, I have different that I'd head. But ali
errand, and then, he'd just fird a notion of where to some sense of propertion.
ha: came into my head was the
poor old Tapsell and helped Inforated opinion.
name of Hogarth."
himself. Once he'd contrived
What has emerged seriously from the current round of the debate, however, is that no one is now very clear about just what foreign aid is supposed to be doing,
his
Ket un
"And that's what i sit about doing when my wife's mother conceived herself to have dia. covered & Leonardo da Vinci.”
"A Lochardo?" I said, rather startled. "You mean a painting?"
"No, no Large sunts, for instance, have
simply a drawing gone into stabilising what the ven so, it would be valuable If it could be proved authentic, usually very seber "Adantle Monthly" culis tho
"musical
So I decided to take this draw- comedy czrencies of. Laos, ing along to Charles Tapsell." "Ah-Tapsel" Byatt Bod Cambodia, and Vietnam. plastres are kept at an exchange with a great appearance of being rate of 35 to the dollar-though well
Their
in Hongkong you can buy about
informed. "Almost legendary figure. But clusive,
120 for a dollar on any street You must habe had the entree
corner.
my dear follow."
Why should these currencies NOT GENUINE
he kept at an' artificial level?
The
Plumbridge grinned, "Well, yes
administration seemand. But it didn't last for long. I was kicked out in no
'tongue-tled,'
Again, lurge sums go to prop time."
rather shaky dictatorships and semi-dictatorships which
up
Then it wasn't a Leonardo" Eiriak auked.
"Nor did until 1 woke up next moaning. Then it came Into my head like a flash. There's a well-known Hogarth engraving with a barber in it, ita in nis serien Four Times of Day. And the barber appears left-handed like Leonardo md--what is the od thing-like the fellow who was shaving Tapsell
"For Umt, of course, was what I'd noticed. So, now I'd solved you see my whole little com-
NEXT WEEK: Changing the Princo's face
Overweight? No need for panic
DON'T know, doctor," I Mr Rogers said doubt "You're quite right. It wasn't, fully. "I've put on a stone But it couldn't be said I was seem
making an absolute fool of my over the last year. . Somo- seit. The subject was a favourite thing must be wrong."
soom to do little for their people with the money and morcover to be alles of doubt
fal value shoulit may trouble Mow up.
The truth is that the foreign aid programme, has been built up like a kind of, mag puzzle composed of bits of other Jigsaw puzzler whose solution lo not known to anybody. There has never boen pay, real master plan, any detalled statement of alms, or any smiled system distribution,
one with Leonardo-a Leda na There's been so much pro-
All in a Doctor's Day by CEDRIC CARNE
coronary lettuce and cabbage instead---
well, that's fine for 'rabbits,
I thought of those silly tex- to fall victim 40 hortations that are made from thrombosis. time to time. Down with pro- teins, they make your kidneys' overwork, Voto
out carbohy drates, they send up your blood pressure, Fits must go, cause poronary thrombosis,
"Toth," I said, and tushi."
Of course,
They should not be alarmed.
Fear of heart diseases because they you are bulky is irrational.
"But a llon doesn't go on
蟲
diet, so why should a healthy
human being?" I asked.
A lion eats what he ean göt Manya walking lamppost and what he wants and who has with a bowler on may have a yet seen a lion in corset? Torh, tosh, thrombosis,
while his podwy neighbour may be altting on the Cut beach this summer eating up the
if you have
bc
dicessed kidneys, better to restrict partially your claire-and kooping wolfing protein intake. If you have high feetly healthy. blood pressure it's worthwhile
tho slowing down ол
earbo- hydrates.
EAT LESS
I advised him to cat thing but to eat
every- smaller
"Of course," I said, "some quantities. Those who take two people just eat more than they lumps of sugar in their cup of tea at breakfast should tolon
a matter of fact, with a couple peganda of late about the evil pectoris maybe you should cut are not ne happe as they should . If you suffer from axina reed. Often that means they of babies hatching out of eggs, consequences of overweight that down on fate. But the
one. Those who have three alleca of toast, two. People who adore chips, titould have just a Rogers few less on their plate.
that I tang up Tapsell one out of perspective,
vast te." 30 1: was quite confidently people have got the whole thing majority have nothing wrong at
Are we be au Putting on weight doesn "Not happy? Mr coming a nation of food fade? signify anything in self. If you said, surprised. evening.
"I found an odd set-up. Do we learn mathematics only put on a macintosh it can't Tapiri is, as Byall mys, elusive to count up calorica? Have we mean it's raining.
"Any food 1 lko, but less," It only People thirals
wony Mr Rogers, repeated "And I lone syeiglit, But mers often suppose more exercise?” & It's Ule other way about. Unhappiness "and
in Jals old age, He lives in a flat, bean taught to read in order to means you've put on a macia-muktes. with a single planservant called scan, the dirt shoals? Does the tosh. of
Gunlon who is even moro British Lion live on allmming atteint than himself, and I table?
It may now be too late in the ily to straighter it out,
by
Alexander. Broad
doubt whether ha aver stiry.out
"All the same 1 fepi I should
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that
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woman
Maro exercize? I recommeád- Insecurity edhe picked up his weighing uftini, make the appetila in maching, ran half a mile to the.
forest river, all dropped it in.
Ant out, then "You can walk
of Uo' pinen. He has, of course, go on a diet," Mr Rogers · in- Yet many people are scared crtame, ha very valuable pelvate collec-aisled, "un I shoukt pe zind or by a belief that because they As for diets, cling out
Your advice."
́ers oveiweight they are likely that you? Ike And munching back," I said.
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