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"No ruise, but they moved me one desk nearer the
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BY
electric fan."
THE
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WAY
by Beachcomber
decision
refuse admision to people who come to football matches, carry- ing batties must be applied with discrimination.
Is
An empty beer bottle usually intended to be used as a weapon, whereas a full bottle of altour, 1929, is more likely to
fus drinking during the game.
arm is
the shy
illustrated
when, to quote an paper. "there was a coronet in bed- the wardrobe of every room." Mr Wett says to him- self. "Thus
FO bloodless revolution."
Without comment
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1958.
•JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Double Creates Added Hazard
By OSWALD JACOBY ARCENY LOU did not
likes
11 when the opponents but a slam against him. It also oc- curred to him that the slam
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WOMANSENSE
EILEEN ASCROFT has just celebrated her 42ad birthday, JANE BACON is about to hara *her 23rd. Both look back to their twentieth birthdays and disagree. "Terrible,' says Eileen,
I wouldn't be 20 again." "Wonderful'says Jove. 'It was my Golden Year' Who is right? -
WOULDN'T BE TWENTY AGAIN
QALAD Days may have
SA
should make, He did not like their own nostalgia,
the position of his king of clubs
In front of the opening club bld.
Strong
measures
seemed necessary and Lou decided that a double might cause South to 20 wrong.
Lou's next step was to open the four of clubs. Without the double South might well have taken the bull by the horns and
around let the lead run
La
his queen but South WAS Lou trad to be positive that Jeeding a shor! suit.
own
South went up with Dummy's ace, ruffed a club in hla band, cashed the king of spades and'led a spade to dummy'n nce. At this point Lou showed out of spades and South realised that he had been bamboozled.
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is the
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(Picasso, of Rubens.)
The Conservative voice the voice of Individual human growth and human dignity.
A rough-locking fellow with employed to produce bad stuf? magnum of an inferior brand of champagne under hig always suspect, but fellow with a Uny sample bottle of cognac is more likely to be a genuine drinker than a rowdy, If he goes wild during the game, bla tile bottle, even Hung with unerring aim, wll not do much baren
Telaspeakerence
BELIND
the úcerco thot female television announcKTS are to be called "speakerenes"
is the story of
a good man's
love, an old mother's tears, and
a bag of land delivered at the
address.
wrong
Aller much "speakerette" and were rejretrel
Www
drivelling, "announceretle with contumely. So "televisionaries as being ou vague. Before taking you over to Ankara for a dissection of u dand crayfish by Dr Tramin here is a tape-recording of a Eremophone record of Mme. Kodiya Oyul singing 38 songs hy Schnipfel.
Mothurst Grange (VIII)
CITAY! What is this? In the
offices of Pipp. Chalgrove. Hipp, Nibblecraft, Pipp. Whack- straw, and Weft, solicitors, Alfred Sluid, hardly recogals- able without his covering of soot, stands awkwardly before the desk of Mr Weft. He has come to make an offer, on has daughter's behalf, for Mothuast Grange, bailiffs and all.
It is to be wedding-present Nellie Sludd to her husband the shepherd on their marriage. Mr Wett is so amazed that his spectacles fall to the floor with light thud. He coughs, fidgets, and coughs again. "Amazing?" he mutters, for he remembers the Grange in its days
glory,
but I wouldn't be 20 again, even if I could put the clock back 21 years.
I wouldn't want to work six days a week from 9.00 till 7.30 for £4 108. a week, and spend the whole of Suu- the day catching up housework.
The ties
on
of a two-year-old
baby at 20 are tough. I mean I never did care much for mice staying home nights, because in quantity and setting trops was baby sitters were economically even worse.
by EILEEN ASCROFT
-BUT TWENTY WAS MY
GOLDEN YEAR
TY twentieth year
Ma Golden Year
a