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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY, 30, 1953.
Miami-place in the sun where beautiful girls are lonely now
It's
Dollars Dollars,
All The Time
By DONALD LUDLOW
I
Miami, Florido,
-F you want to see Miami in spring, you can't do better than go to the city gnol, unless it is Dade County Gaol, which is the county most of
Miami is in.
The city gaol occupien floors 16, 17, and 18 of the sparkling 24-storey court- house.
cream
cone roof, and his to decree. premises are supposed to be escape proof.
Even Babylon's Lincoln Road,
.and Rue de la Paix
where
to
County Sheriff Tom Kelly cayne Bay, is a pleasure Babylon or Bagdad that hasn't takes over from the 19th ground that even Kublai a sale sign in the window. floor right up to the ice- Khan would have hesitated which calls itself America's
expesied It is all right for the they might be long-hairs to shudder at the wince at a word, they're just as quick as anybody else to jumble of glass, tiles, put up slogans like "Save 50 Well, this year alone right chromium, gilt, and shim- cents on your dollar. Buy the tough characters have
mering white concrete in mostest for the leastest!"
that Catch them doing #warmed down bed-sheet ropes and landed in a main every style, of architecture ermine and diamond time!
known to man and lots of Of course the wenther Is
at
MUNICH
kunt
BOGGED DOWIŁ
"THERE MUST BE A THIRD WAY'
Say 'sorry' if
shopping street right - others that just got dream- perfect; bright blue sky, bril- you are on
at night. And it is pretty well
posite police headquarters. and one of them, who had ed up; but this amazing pile liant sun, average temperature been allowed a TV set in his takes in something like 500 around 80, with a cool breeze million holiday dollars (£180 guaranteed to stay that way, the trip million) a year. So for a lot of people it must have something.
cell, even 1wice.
made
So they are saying in Miami now, whenever this
And it earns most of that citadel of the law is men- money in 120 incredible days tioned: "Don't worry if between December and March, when It can rightly claim to they haul you in, Bud. Just
house moro multi-millionaires. ring once for the elevator plain millionaires, Alm stars, and twice for the rope."
Still, the gnol is a good place from which to see Miami in the spring. But first let's get Miami sorted out and also get the Iama straight.
It is My-am-ee-or M am-uh, if you want to sound like a real oldtimer.
「B$蕸$$$$1$
And there ure two Miamis Miami City and Miami Beach. And they don't like to be confused.
They are both pretty fabulous places. You could
THE GAOL
Rooms with a vi'w
HOUSE one Bagdad and the and big-time gangsters
"The" Loading Hotel in Hongkong
WINNER PALACE: Town's Finest Chinese Food Ideal Place For Receptions
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barring hurricanes, the
ISUSE$B$1$ 4$1
Mamic just couldn't have better, could she?
there's But, as always, daw. For Mamie, with
that Miami moon in mint, would rather have a mite leas Baby
Ion and friends.
Iow more boy
1
mat
NE of the most difficult and peculiar forms of conversation is known as "being pn the mat."
It is most trying when you know that you are thoroughly in the wrong.
Said Merlo, gazing bleakly You have to face the boss at a bronzed young man div-knowing that the conversa- Ing in a topaz pool, then up at tion is going to be all one the Chinesa, Gothic, Byzantine
her splendour of "This dump ought to start lonely hearts club,"
residence: sided-in his favour.
1
For rount the pool, seeking solace in sun-lan, aro halt
dozen other Mamies. And that's pretty tough competition, even for on ex-campus queen of Cincinnati, High. -
ASUS ES SEESAS)
MIAMI MEMOS:-
Midway between Bagdad and Babylon-where every inch p land is worth a pinch of gold are half a dozen happy squat other Babylon. And any other place in the world, ters on six tiny islands. They through the two of them And to whom do you think it pay a rent of a dollar (1a. 24.)
belongs right now (out of cea a week..... blow hurricanes of dollar can)? Mamic Smith, typist, of bills that leave you dizzy. Cincinnati.
For one
is the market
Something that hasn't come down in price....n 100-dollar, She gets all that Babylon has hund-painted silk tle....it will
office girl's holiday fund; an
place of rich and teeming to offer, a film star's life on un keep for Christmas....
Plurkla.
ona
that
If you argue or try to bluster your way out of your mistake you will be making a bigger mistake.
is a better There' technique which is a good training, too, in the art of conversation.
by
World Copyright by arrangement with cha 'sanchester Cupediem.
MRS AMBER BLANCO-WHITE
It is so
different from the days of courtship, when both could be absorbed "I with such remarks as think...." "Yes, so do I." “Oh, do you?”
The keen attention to the lightest thoughts bo 'fore marriage, la expected to endure through life. does not even in "happy
He will see you stand ing there on the mat, docile, attentive, room for any con- marriages. versation at all.. For no- body wants to listen.
Husbands ought to hear exactly what thoir wives /ħath (Decífs He sees
you standing doing all day long-pacilezia
ly when much of the work has there so polite, and so clear- been done to satisfy the hus- ly in the wrong. His band's needs. thoughts will be "Perhaps I'm being a little hard."
It is uraless to hope that they Another "I really am will. A hasband can be deepe very sorry indeed, Mr y devoted to his wife even Jones" should bring the after he has left off listening". conversation to an end. to every word she says, d
+
When Mr Jones begins to
Ite might talk more to her f explain to you how badly He has reached the stage, the topics were more concern.
ed with his away-from-work you have behaved, keep where his move must be interests. It la not his fault if back everything you would "Well you can go now..she no longer cares-two hools like to say.
But don't let me 'catch an- about his hobbies-although in
the courtship days "the" other mistake like this thought that everything he Wald- again."
Look attentive-but try not to listen if you feel that his remarks will nettle you into an interruption.
When he has finished, merely say: "I am sorry, Mr Jones."
Don't forget to thank Mr Jones before you go out.
★ ★ ★
and did was interesting.
Rad
The main cause-of-these-ex-- casalve expectations from Zami- ly conversation is the small size of the British family.)
Home means just parents and grand- All the things you might their children. The
parents rarely come into it This will start him off
have said when you were they are just visited, they Sir again. ("It's all very well on the mat can safely be let live near enough, on duty calls. to say that you are sorry, out when you get home, Brothers and tislers may Mor Seminolo
whose but.....:”) Indians,
they may not be welcome it. chiết activity 13
Home is the safe place arep in. There is no cager In- wrestling opathetle and probably toothless alligators, are the only tribe When
air-conditioned room, with pri- Where big names are a dime And Babylon on' tho vate bathroom and an ocean a tazen, they are still talking
miles beach, two
them visited nway view, for anything from five to of
six dollars (£1 15s. 10d. to around seven years ago, across Island-studded
£2 39.) a day, or eight tol- Winston Churchill.... lars (£2 176. 4d.) with food
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Д
he has finished where the boss can be torn vitation for their company. never to sign a peace treaty again, repeat: "[ am to bits. and so are still technically on very sorry, Mr Jones."
However,
If you fancy a millionaire's the warpath. 100-dollar-a-day (£35 10), 8d.) easier scolping tourists.... penthouse Buite, with a private bar, two ocean views, and TV and ice-water on tap, you can take your pick for 40 dollars (£14 Us.. Bd.).
CESASESASASI.
Ола
has
11'8
110
With any luck, this will set him going for the third
Nadi an
That is our national charaemili teristic. In other countries; (#34) girl when the marries, becomes. hot only a wife but actively a long member of her husband's fami
The only Bag is that in many homes there is not much conversation.
The husband has ceased to listen to his wife's ly dally affairs, the wife does
Those big-gamo
tuna, time. tarpon, and sailfish, are at their Nobody will mind if you biggest and gamest in the want to sharo it with four spring. They must Imów when friends, or pack in a family, millionaires migrate. They will be so glad to see you
Babylon, which that they will even provida couple of extra divans, so that cemetery, is the regular you can make 'extra bedrooms of the undertakers' from the vast walk-in clothes tion..... closets.
has ever had a recorded caso logical strength of his argu- Just imagine sleeping sur- of sunstroke. And in the whole ment. rounded with memories of mink Siato of sunny Florida a`hand- When he has heard often often demand too
conven- quence.
Neither Babylon ner Bagdad
Family conversation stretches I say "with any luck" not want to hear his office out among dozens of relatives-
vhid meet as often as they cant. because all the while he is talk. talking he is impressing There is no slick, easy
We might not think "much' at venue himself with his own elo- way to bring the art of con- such a system. There is ho versation back into such great love in this country for He; is sustained by the homes.
tuch family; Liesitus,
But nobody can deny that! Husbands and wives when relatives meet tongues
much
The art of conversation-in all from the Institution of the home as anywhere) elas: Luku
and especially thriver best when many people from marital conversation, are keenly, Interested in whats
others are doing wit
and models by Dlor and Faith. kerchief is the only article of
And for Mamie It is just the apparel costing under ten dolenough how well it right time, for holiday shop- lars (23 11s. Bd.) that bears counda ke is likely to start marriage ping. There is hardly a shop in a luxury tox.
feeling sorry for you.
JOHNNY, HAZARD
IF M'LORD'S GUEST
IS READY, I SHALL DRAW HIS BATH AND PREPARE.
HIS ROOM/
REAL JOLLY!.I'VE ALWAYO WANTED A. VALET...EVEN FOR JUST ONE NIGHT!
MY NAME IS WERDER, SIR/
IT WILL BE MY PLEASURE TO
SERVE YOU TONIGHT,
By Frank Robbins
BUT I REGKET THAT I'LL BE UNABLE TO "CO" FOR YOU TOMORROW! IT'S MY DAY OFF AND I'VE SOME IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO ATTEND
TO
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