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A British Crossword Puzzle Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
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ACROSS 1 Portray (6),
Accelerato (5).
7 Summary (0).
Plunder (5).
10. Bellow (4). 12 Liken (7).
15 Tree (5).
16 Finishes (4).
17 Spins out (4).
10 Begin (5).
20 Refrains from (7).
21 Prophet (4).
23 Deduce (5).
24 Innate (0).
25 Wind instrument (5).
20 Globe (0).
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2 Introductions (8)
3 Part of the face (4).
Does well (8)..
1 -
Havens (5).
Hamper (6).
Inmate (8).
12 Social class (5).
13 Animal (8).
14. Allenate (8).
18 Dog-house (8).
22 Break off (4).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Averting, 8 En- tire, ↑ Rigorous, 11 Retained, 12 Mere, 13 Gamut, 18 Löses, 19 Tact, 22 Possible, 24 Presence, 28 Arrest, 20 Dressers. Downi Beart, 2 Stole, 3 Arrival, 4 Veln, 5 Rood, 6 Ironed, 7 Gasped, 10 Genus, 14 Moron, 15 Teasers, 10 Stupld, 17 Scheme, 20 Ebbed, 21 Petty, 22 Pets, 23 Scor.
YOU WERE STANDING AT
ONE END OF A LONG HALL.
AT THE OTHER END THERE
WAS A HUGE BALL AS
HIGH AS THE HALL- IT ROLLED SLOWLY TOWARDS YOU-YOU
TRIED TO ESCAPE
BUT COULDN'T MOVEL
Use of supplementary flash in daylight will help you to lighten shadows such as those cast by a broad-brimmed or peaked hat.
BOOK OF THE MONTH. THE ECHOING GROVE ~ by ROSAMOND, LEHMANN, Collins. 123. Gd. 320 pages
MISS
LEHMANN TELLS OFF THOSE SLIPPERY MEN
REVIEWED BY
GEORGE MALCOLM. THOMSON -
ASIC -- notes on a widows going for a coun-
dog, when the war is over,
B mature, distinguished try walk together, with the
book:
TYPE: novel of emo- the love-duel: ended, all tions.
passion apent.
A
THEME: love triangle. During the walk, Dinah's PERIOD: late thirties dog attacks a rat and finds and mid-forties of 20th the job too much for it. century.
The sisters must intervene, PLACE: London.
reluctantly and clumsily, SOCIAL SETTING: to end the business. It in a Well-to-do, well-educated shaking horrible signideant middle class which has episode. *- mislaid its sense of values We are off to a good Important to light up your sub-and discarded its sense of start. But we are off on foots m tally back-lighted pictures.
Sometimes, for metance, you may duty; is open to every kind a Journey that willpzigt brimmed hat. A pretty hat, res; but of political, social, erotic erratically across the
and look at events" ty one that hodowa her face. So you heresy. find fath helps. It reaches in under the brim and brighteria the natural shadows.
FLASH PLUS DAYLIGHT
NE of our readers has asked about the use of flash, out- doors in daylight-supplemen- tary flash, as it's called. When," he writes, "is flash recommend- ed for. daylight shota? And what should I know about using it?"
So let's take up his questions in order And take a look at the artwork. The Ami one vai't too hard, Outdoor in daylight you con u Rash much as you might white card reflector to brighten dark
shadow areas or pertape more
AT LAST THE BALL: WAS ALMOST CRUSHING YOU AND YOU AWOKE
mental energy and drive that comes from your securlly,
instincts and desires for sex, food, adventure and change, clo.
THIS DREAM MEANS : schologist's term for the sum total of all the A typical dream of the claustrophoblo (those who dread closed spaces). Space closes In on you to crush you and you cannot escape: which symbolises the conviction that your strongest desires are being completely and overwhelmingly frustrated.
One secret of the healthy mind and spirit Is to distribute your "bido." This is the pay
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WADYA MEAN THREE STRIKES.
THROW THE BUM
"OUT
NOW IS THE TIME THE TONSIL BOYS START THEIR LONG AND WINDY SEASON.
"DON'T YOU'
JUST LOVE HOCKEY ?"
"CAN YOU MAKE OUT THIS ONE ?
THE PINOCHLE GAME THAT GOES ON AND ON- USUALLY WITH A DECK THAT LOOKS
LIKE OLD TAR-PAPER.
1 THOUGHT-
POST OFFICE
WAS
HER
GAME.
To put all your love and affection and passionate interest into only one person or one Bolivliy-however, worthy is to tempt· pro-. vidence. For If you lose that one person or alm-you may lose everything.
Name Your Game
THIS IS MY OWN. IDEA-YOU THINK OF SOMETHING AND THEN GO
THROUGH THE MOTIONS-
COFR IM3 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORK, TH-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
ETC.
ETC.
1 MAKE A MOTION WE GO HOME.“
BEWARE OF
THE HOME-MADE- VARIETY,
“LYKNET":
DON'T GO PITCHIN' ANY WILD. ONES
OVER THE FENCE. THESE ARE THE LAST
HORSESHOES
IN TOWNS
want to sati a girl in a broad-
Or you may want to make a pie. ture of Cue" baby in him or her
Snow a small child in the of a car. Or almost any
bock Highted subject where normal highlight exposure do not sufficient.
POINT OF VIEW: Woman's,
DOMINANT NOTE: joyable suffering.
CS
the through one pair of értő,
now through another
en-
· s
*340
Why
BicklenoMasters wealthy elty man lied of every party, unfaithful to his AND THE STORY? The pretty conventional wife with story
All these are places where supple mountpry Battuned in dayitaht to Masters (handsome, charm conventional?
is that of Rickie Dinah, less d
advantage, provided you don't over- forth.
with Madeleine,
You must use flash wisely, and ing, cultivated), who is py is emotionally
moond the husband of Madeleine He is a philanderers Hiki
in love with fully
that's where duy reader'a question comes, in: "What about
know about it? Let's try to answer and falls that briefly.
jess
himself against
First, sou could always remember Dinah, Madeleine's sister. unbusher of sex? Various ex that the small flask bulbs used by Or would it not be more plantions
most amateurs The Na. § or SM)
are offered:
are not much help in shooting a bexact to say that Dinah reader is free to Choosi falls in love with him?
Ject 20, or more feet away.
And prcond, you'll want to use a different exposure than for fluch
ota at night
・・・ celb that with bring the light from the flash,jomp somewhere in "balance" with the daylight so that- the background does not "go black."
A good rufe to follow in to use
to
Dinah is emancipated, miscuous, haunder of doubtful parties; the kind of woman whom other women dismiss in The question will be a one-syllable word—and find,
their asked once
ment, and again as "mysterious" to the story uncoils its glisten- Dinah is emancipated sough ing, narrative before us. to have a baby by Rickie, and flash. This gives good rendition of But "uncoila" is not quite conventional enough to have it highlights. backgrounds. and sky
on the sly. Unhappily, the baby eroes parts of the picture where the word, suggesting as it dies, and in a muddled revur the flash has Bithe of 60 efect. Then does, something which be ston of feelings the love-affatt All you gins at, the beginning and, is betrayed to Madeleine by a need do drape handkerchief in due course, reaches the is Dinah's closest friend,
raffish, equivocal harriday,
she exposure which you would nor mally up for thote in daylight just
as if you badn't planned to add
use your flantı at "half-strength.”
And the An't dificult.
over the floods · gün's reflector sa s to cut down on the light. One or two thicknemer, will cut it enough,
end." "That is not at all
The marriage between Ricks and · Madeleine Le Drokti, Ghia
sowye when worktyg extremely close Rosariond Lehmann's way thereafter, never more.iban hall
in where three folds may be better.
unit, you may work elise' tip but have the flash lamp 10 or 12 feet
Or, if you have an extention flash
ситета.
of telling a story.
two
She begins almost at the would perhaps have come to
mended.
Dinah and Rickle from your subject to the rear of the end, with Madeleine and gether openly had it not lef for. Fickfe's duodenal ulcer, John van Guilder] Dinah,
middle-aged
which picks the critical moment to flare up. Dinah drifts off to- wards, gin and (a comparatively respectable phase) Communism.
BY HARRY WEINERT
IT WOULD BE EASIER
TO SINK A SHIP THAN SINK A PUTT~ BUT THAT DOESN'T
BOTHER THESE WATER SPANIELS:
THAT RED FIVE GOES ON THAT BLACK, SIX-AND
·THE~"
"QH MY
YOU TOO?
THE NOT SO SOLITARY SOLITAIRE.
THE DIRTY-KNEES-AND-KNUCKLES
LEAGUE GETS UNDER WAY
*УН
Sho picks URON thesis conscious-- Jargonhistam brillio suspect
opinions, the of the middle-class "comrade" out on a political Bumming But the nice young
Hoth baker whor
she...
happily marries in killed in tho Spanish Civil War, After that there only gin, drugs, the
society
men eg
ROB
of unsuitable young
handsome,
amoral
sailor from: Nottingham who lurks in a predatory way round
Dinah's pecultar-half-world. One night, he all but strangles Dinah,
probably but not. tainly-in-his. The fact is, she frightens kim: a tricklest bltch that ever set herself cat a man alive." 3 to
AND SELBY (Selbig) German refuges--psychiatrist with an inflamed gullt complex, a "co
"corrupted saint who keeps open house for moral devla- . tlonists and dead-beats, supplies Dinahs with s
lustrated
enough
to
Thako
Selby
attempt at suicide before ill- ing himself on the eve of war.
Dinah's life Is a mess, yot somehow the reader is not en- couraged to feel sorry for her. Even those who have done her wrong fail to pity her. As Rickie says. There must be something quilt-crasing at
about
Dinah."
Rickio Is
secretive by an HT
and preferring aécretiveness in
others,
บ
with, flaslios, jokiral
knowledge or Is It il 47 "I'm People were alwarheadery pe -I don't know what of me.
Shuttling » betweerus vivoman and woman tough.
in the end probably loves
notable disappointer.
fer Clarisa? I thò efið?!" "Yes," for Rickie dies of landenai uleer
the
novel,
best-known to the reader, most closely analysed, most cruelly watched byother when for this is essentially the women's view
of tho
Love And the
angle
ch, dirk 28hfused, contrived story With so many things exactly xterra (16 many frail threads "of „fotihig caught and held--what is it in the end?:0; PINAS
{por raised/
al-
weakness of man. ·
whim
a TheThe favohig Grove the
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