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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1958.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH
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4 AM DITTIES WERE NOT APPRECIATED BY NEIGHBOURS
Pago y
This ODD World
Wolf-Whistling Mynah Bird THE CIGARETTE LET
Garden Parties Shakespearean It Was Just Who's Got
Were
Ruined
OWNER IS FINED £2
THE
London.
man whose mynah bird upset the neighbours in one of the smartest parts of London's suburbia was fined £2. He was also ordered to pay 40 guineas costs,
MR JOHN LUTTMER
'I'm a sporting man.'
12 Currants
'Foil' The Policeman
M+ Year dealer, keeps the mynah
John Luttmer, 49- old wealthy potato
Avenue,
bird
in uz aviary lu hls garden in Esher Park Surrey,
Exher,
It is an avenue where there used to be tennis parties and coffee soirees, and the Luttmers with their £15,000 house, trin lawns, and crazy paving were the Iden hosts. Unit they
Juve mynah bought the
£20,
for
It become a blue-feathered chatterbox with a repertoire of songs including "All the Nice Girls Love a Sallpr" and "Pop goen the Wensei."
Very quickly the tenhis par- ties and the coffee parties came to an end.
Esher Park Avenue became a brooding titleßeld. And it took Kingston-on-Thames magis-
trates with counsel and Bollci- tors dx hours to sort it out the
other day.
Ack! Ack!
Thirteen witnesses, directors' wives, textile manufacturers, tweed-sulted housewives,
scribed the alleged noise
by the mynah.
de-
made
Comments On
Too Much For Bambi
Romo, dear
Moonshoot Try A YOUNG de unde
London.
**
THE weekly Spectator reported the results of a
To test in sicer the need to find. lines In Shakespeare appropriate for comment BÌ launching a rocket to the moon,
Some winners:
"Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it, thou canst not hit it, my good man." (Love's Labour Lost, act four, scene 2.)
★ "I see thy glory like a shooting star
"Fall to the base earth from the firmament." (Richard II, act two, scene 4).
"How ill agrees it with your gravity,” (Comedy of Errors, act two, scene 2). "What, out of hearing? Gone? No Sound, No word?
•
"Alack," where are you?" (Midsummer Night's Dream, act two, Reene 2).
"Come, let's make haste she'll soon be back again." (Macbeth, net three, scene 5). ★ "And 'tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us." (Macbeth, act two, scene 2). -U. P. L
the
world last' wook. 'But it
Their Ding-Dong?
E
London.⚫
was too much and it diedMBARRASSED officials of on the marble floor of busy bank, apparantly of a heart attack.
Tho downy brown and white animal esenried in the afternoo from the Home Zoo It dorted down a quiet street that led to the maralve Piazza Del Popolo, (one of Rome's busiest and big-
Fest squares.
the
Fear struck In and out fawn darted through traffic, and leaped by startled pedestrians. down it ran in the centre of the Via Cons", choked with automobile traffic,
a police training college in Milt Meace learned who's got their ding-dong, who's got their bell.
Students at Birmingham University have it-and they're turning it over to Conservative Party President Lord Hallsham In the House
Lords in of London. Hellsham has
OFF THE BIG BANG
London,
I wasn't any tricli cigar, just an ordinary cigarette. But when Frank Walton lit it, an explosion:
Blew out a staircase.
"Now how do you
sposo
they got in therof? Jungle Jira
Blasted a hole in the ceiling. asked-UPI.
Smashed windowa and.
· fittings.
Shattered door.
Tumbled crockery to the
Aloor.
Determined!
2.
Bury St Edmunds.
Elvia 迪
MRS Mildred
· determined woman.
A
A magistrate ned. Mrs Elvin who already had spent E00 on
Walton was unhurt in the ex-futiless driving lessons, £1 for
trying d bribe
driving plosions of leaked gas-UP..
examiner to pass her after her eighth unsuccessful tost,
On The Blink
berna LE
Then Mrs Elvin, who had since failed tests mine and ten hurried off to prepare for test
Whiteville, N.C. Bennett'd televisiU.P.I.
favourite cartoonist target in Y set went on the blink. What Recipes?
Britain ever since he vigorously Wille Bennett called a repair- rang a big bell at a Conserva- man. Uve convention.
Red-faced Chief Superinten- dent Stanley Porter promised that no action will be taken "as long as we get the beli back.” The student police lost the through)-90-pound ship's beil that hbr-
and mally calls them to lectures las: On The Road?
week
While 300 officers
Finally the young deer with a mighty leap_vaulted the door of a Rome bank collapsed on the floor,
There were no injuries or bruizes The tiny heart had jus stopped-U.P.Í.
THAT COCKTAIL PARTY
FORGETFULNESS
By DELOS SMITH
New York.
ALL persons concerned about their inability to remember They said the taynah, one of what happened, at cocktail parties (and they must number Luttmer's electrically heated a majority of persons who go to them), can put their worries POLICE Inspector Smith, at 4 a.m. One neighbour, with at rest on the word of a scientific authority on the odd ins-and-
London.
22 tropical birds in Mr
avtary. began ita dities
of Amershamn, is a very bad nerves, had to sec u door outs of human behaviour.
fine cook.
Children woko up early chel were tired at school, Garden parties were ruined.
Year after year he ente cookery classes in local shows. second and he has just won
Mr Ray Blackmore, 42-year-
director fruit cake in his old managing
of an prize for
Jwn constabulary show against electrolype company, brought two dozen other competitors the ease on behalf of the neigh-
πει
and women, policemen.
wives afbours,
yos
"Another dozen currants and I would have bod first prize," he joked, When the cake was
there cut by the judges just a small patch without any fruft. So next year--12 micre currants."
at
It is his ambition to get 21 Are in this ammual competition.
I love beating the women their own game," he said. "I've yet to get a first." He got third for his cake last year,
Inspector Smith has also won prizes for the hest-cooked potatoes at Denham shuw, and also in the mlad classca,
The Magpie 'Swaps' His
Discoveries
that
wife, Edith, said F Onco the Lutters made a recording of the blads-and then played it back to the birds.
The tolse
indescrib- uble,"
Glamorous Mrs Doreen Cor- deroy imitated it. "Ack, Ack," she went.
was
Ow, ow
Mr John Peddy, a middle- nged bespectacled woollen manufacturer, interpreted it at "Ow, Ow." He also said the mynch wolf-whistled,
"not an atom of trouble."
artist Mr Edward Ward saidi the mynah was just "amtuning."
THE PERILS
OF DRINK
·
Taffy's Mate Is Roped In
It's not simple forgetfulness, he agreed, but pure anmesia which is a complete loss of Rather than meaning memory, a mental cog Has slipped out of plate, however, most likely means the amnesia **victim" doesn't care to be aware of or to assvelte himself with cock-
lab party goings-on,
PURE AMNESIA
of
Dr Chandler Washburne the University. of Florida. that Gainesville, was arguing (although pure nemesia
not Amnesia due to any illness), s common among people whether was enough to make a they've had one drinks, a number
horse laugh.
Laceby.
PINT OF BEER
or drinks, or no drinks at all.
The ablity to remember, he
is to pay attention id
Ever-alent - Pollee constable said, breed Dest of all on John Bontoft gazed suspiciously awareness awareness of one's and at the old white horse restlessly self in relation to perple But there were other wit- klèking outside the Nags Head excumstances. Awarcõess de nesses who found nothing finer pub in this Lincolnshire village. penda upon two things: one is to than a mynah.
feel associated with the people Former chef of the
He looked again, and saw u Fraud
and tho and the circumstances It stretched from
the other Squad Detective-Superintendent rope. Charles Vanstone said he spent horse's halter, across the side-them. several weekends with the walk, att down a passageway, His vlows struck at a critical Lutumers and the mynah was
In 'nientific efforts to Bontoft followed the rope Into point
understand all the things in- Television producer and bird the crowded bar.
toxicating drink do to people. Armeria is so common "aming people who drink (it only. ! little) that many scientists feel alcohol makes spectacular At the other end he found charges in both the paychological 13-year-old Roy Hart-rope in and pitynical workings of the Afterwards Mr Latimer sold on hand, pint of beer, in the mind,
don't other. "I'm a sporting man-I
PAY ATTENTION myhah, but I will have to think about nind. I can't gag the
Hart downed the drink and
Washburne renomed that bo bringing it inside the house."
staggered outside, 'There, sald
Bome- Mr Blackmore,
surrourated, Bontott, he solerholy batted the person tan romeinter by a Julant virule of friends, old white boy saying This thing of which he was not OVER if it happened Father sad that in Tolly, I love him more than wat,
wider his nose. And Ho Can't Mr Latimer has not made any my wife.!! artengerfients to dispose of the
he pays attention to it and un- bird. But
less he also feels associated with It, for one tengờil or nother.
Unawareness will attention and disassociation goes on all the time among the onberest |
London. The magistrates flaed Mr Luttmer undor a by-law for MAGPIE is making keeping a bird that was Д people living at Stephendale Road, Farnham (Bürroy),
A himself at home among kulance.
They hardly dare leave win dows open in caso Charlie (as they call the magple), hops in and helpe hamscit to small articles.
From the home of Mas said: "I am Munday Charlie look tooth brush out of the bathroom-and
Not bouleht with this show of we have shaken affection fact crawled under the Later returned with a different hands. All we want in peace horse and tried to lift it. toothbrush
good Mrs Munday also has a key and the chance to be
Hart was fined £1 for being Only the mynah had no drunk in charge of a horse, comment to make.
and the lid of p whistling koille, neither of which belong
to her, which Charllo brought in. Charllo has taken packets of cigarettes from house, hou hidden peas in the head of a Broom, and has stated “draku” into the thatched root of ແດ aviary belonging to Mrs C. W. Humphrey'.
Tough Nut
Sydney.
· A boli revenity fell 20 febl from
workman's
pierced a man's out and led hts foot to, d plove of timber.
The mast, William állley, aged
colely for an waited bulancemen to arrive and
t
68.
Esim.
Police anket
free
the bolt had
driven almost an inch into the /wood China Moli‘Spečtal,
neighbours."
U.P.I,
I'
Elephant
Walked
Into Bar
Chesterfield.
was just an ordinary tay in the Portland Hotel here when this
elephant waliced into ine bar, ist down at a iablo and drank a pint of beer. "She love beer,” trainer Gosta Kruse, A Swede, explained of his 11⁄2-lon, elglit-year-old Burmese
elephant, "gle often his C at the airens,” which in #ppearing here currently
"We would come in for a drink. This is the first time I have over taken her into a public house," Kruse said:
The number of hotel bar hablitices who swore
off drinking on the spot wis mui renäided——U.P.I.
BOY DROWNED AS FRIEND DENIED PHONE
Swansea. 13-YEAR-OLD boy
be aware of anything unless A who raced to a telo-
U.P.I.
THE
BODYLESS
HEAD
Akdorshot.
phone kiosk to ring, the police when another boy was drowning said at a SWANWOO inquest." "There was a man in the box and hu said 1 would have to wait."
mléädled his herves, ha repoët. The oncer catied the Troof Cocket, Swatisde, was asked
THERE was the officer's bat-
(man, dutifully ballothe (Lio quarters, when he spotted a "2Vh in thère, à Man's bead, planilo bar his denial officer Tina dark hair. There's AXE
tarelessly
alto, so well, All-la a Mass Jeft + la
tlo bag."
"I told him thero wore, two bys in the pond, Ifo sald ho was making a Bhons tali · `ondi that I could phone afterwards.” Ìhó bé, Anliemy Westacólt, marthal, wild exiled polloe, by the Coroner (Mr Franels who called detectives to solve Wilson). It he know the man's flo
of the bodylendiderity. He replied, "No." dsso bosd,
The Cofoner reborded a vér- Beverat · Iosre later, shey diet, of dents by misadventure
solved IL
offendidənin "hid lakén Bryh fodd, who was drowned de Roth Jotin, 16, b↑ A¤l-Y- the head with kizh stlačted in the 30 feet deep Cockbit from * London Hospital to Ponis on August 28 atthe plung
mudy,
that into the water fully clothed Merciful officery declined: 1818 Trotska 10-rest-old David
had corner. The baithan looked into the The duty i sergeant smelled The
bag
his breath, I semed notniM fdr sailor who, kas dawhed Ahend looked right béck, "Omisawie", anld the batman. bair one largo drink. Bu thei Hé máslêwed his nöfdletly. Mirzant, An officer and the cofemto and hurried on the belag Went to the quartets:
• dojible la reporį ta superiors. | Tijete li was, all right. Juki After, » Intaw drink slightly "uke the mum weld.
pored
Jindus
Monroe, Wisc. Marshal - Peterson how to mix Vodka
The repatrian said he'd seen JUDGE the seb before -- it was stolen from a 'store where one of hi Martini as well as the next mon relatives works,
and lila kalowledge cost Wilson Wille Banhelt la ndw ini gaol; ] restaurant owner Phi U.P.I.
$100.
Wilson, who is liechend to sell only beer, told Peterson the Vodka
and Vermouth İri his kitchen was, used for cooking purposes. Wheh Peterson aakod Wilson to name some recipes Fin which he used the strong hern gin, whisky, wine and brandy stuff Wilson couldn't name any
budding law
studenta slept, two
Johannesburg
acourtiar couple A corner spilling 40 cases of TRUCK caressed around o
and kept watch oulalde the aczdetny while, three
and Peterson finiṣà him $100.-
spent 48 minutes creeping to the street. around the building in stock- Inged feel looking for the bell their beer in d nearby beerhail located 1 on a pofè 20
feet and
Several dozen persons left U.P.I..
gathered
around for
from an office where two stronger stuff-UP.I. officers were on duty,
They quietly dismantled loaded it into
a waiting
ond took it to the University which is celebrating its carnival week.
Furry Boot
✓
:
Political Motive?
Tel Aviv. An Ismell mouse, in a re- versal of usual forin, Illied an Egyption snako last week.
The white Chitary
domestle mouse TAMES T. Duddy 20, who was terved up as live lunch to wrestled professionally under a three-foot Egypt coben at the "Wo guarantee the bel will the nine "Jimple Jim, wa Tel Aviv University Zoo.
It killed the suoke by biting be returned to the polleo um arrested on charges of posses mediately it has been formally alg $50,000 worth of 'stolen through its backbove, and when agalh the présented to Lord Hallsham, Fure despite his sinprise when attendants fooled Carnival Committee Chairman FBI agents opened the trunk of mouse was eating the make-
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