WE ALL
have some BAD HABITS-
but in-
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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1959.
BY
• THE. WAY,
by Beachcomber
PHONE-TAPPING
be to see that all was going satis- may define as thint Granch of factorily. It was the brother grackus living which çuables of this "detective" who started Janessar official to enjoy, t a fight at the top tabir, when private conversation between someone nude an insulting re- two people reifst enough to mark about an old boy who wish to keep it to themselves. had been in prison with him. An amusing incident occurred His less expensive and less when the photographers came risky than concealing micro- into the banqueting room. phones in furniture or bellud. Several oki boys ducked down pictures. ÁL Narkover tapping under the table or covered their was abused to such an extent face; with their napkins: The that no teleplanes are allowed, general opinion was that the And once became known that photographs would be too useful microphones had been installed to Scotland Yard, In nearly every study, the boys reduced the thing to ridicule by boasting of outrageous crimes which even the meaters refused to credit,
The Old Narkoverian
dinner
THE culpable conduct of those plain-clothes men at the Old Narkoverian dinner who were net ineopacitated by doctored drink has been explained, They were old boys masquerading 3 detectives, It was one of them who nequired the restaurant manager' note-case, that ingenuous feel having looked in
A wise decision
CAPTAIN FOULENOUGH'S International reputation an an art dealer was given a p when the poller in New York :ized the 400 take pictures, Including a Rembranıl!. This happened only a few days after the exposure by experts of the Modigliani by Harris, Foulenough Fald yesterday: "As suoply seans to be exceed- Jeg demand, and to avoid a glut on the market, we are misperid- ing unerations until the New Year."
-London Brprent Service).
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ค SYMPTOMS
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WE'RE STUCK WITH A
GOOD ONE!
but dont come unstuck when you buy! IT'S GENUINE
Sellotape
YOU WANT WITH THAT NAME "ON THE ROLL
JACOBY on BRIDGE
M
Y old friend, Walter Malo a grain of rall, this is a typical wan, writes, "I know most Malowan hand. In the 30 years
hha: people don't approve of bidding have krown Waller
underbid and Very never
failed fo
the get tart sldom
max'nium number of tricks.
Fame
one and two no-toump with the
the 60 hand, bui score tempted ma When East dubled me, t ran oul to thres ch with fear and trepidation. and was delighted not to be doubled.
חוסר זיי
of urd
one
He picked the club suit out the air at the the level
then played for the combination that would let him stagger home with the rubber.
As for East, has my sincere, sympathy. blame him for doubling the two He rould I no-trump contract
not
ם
the second epado; played the king of clubs and a eleb to dummy's ace and then the deuce of diamonds. Enst roce with the
nes and led third und fourth spade. ruffed with the ten and when It held the trick I played an- other club; cropped both clubs togelliez and claimed the balance, game and rubber."
Except for the fear and trepidation" which I take with
WEST 442
J 10 9 4
J975
4993
NORTH
4990
7863
3432 A1
1 can't
tell that. Walter would able to escape,
CARD Sensen♦
Q-77e bidding has been: Worl North Eart South
Double Pass 24
Pass
7
I
PRA
13
EAST AAQJ73 ❤$2
• AQ10
QJ7
SOUTH (D)
4K 105
VAKQ
• Ke
4K 10052
North and South vulnerable
and 80 part score
South Wes North East
1 N.T. Pass PAL
2 N.T. Pasa Puss
3+ Pass Puss
Opening lead—▲ 4
24 Double Puss
QUOTE
-by Cardinal Godfrey, Arch- bishop of Westminster, at Birmingham:-----
IFL
the
were asked what is pressing anxiety today. I would say reform in morals, more vigilance by governments and authority in the matter of immoral literature, suggestive plays, immodest pictures, Bad
You, South, hold:
403743 WAKO +432 487
What do you do?
be
A-Bid four spades. No gore- antee goes with this bid, but you want to try for game. TODAY'S QUESTION
You hold the same hand. Your partner doubles one club and
the next player raises to two clube. What do you do?
Anwer Monday
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
1 12
A
£2
(No. 3741
Here is a position won by L Lindhelmer In a London League match. White (to move) wins at least a pawn,
Solution No. 5740: 1 QX HIP (threat 2 QxKIP), Kt-85; 2
of the pornographio obsession RxKt, or IB any. 2. Ux with which some people are, as BP, or 1... KI-KS: 2 QL-Q5. It seems, increasingly afflicted.
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*Try again, Doc-that's the third time you've got me'
No apologies,
I'm taking a pretty sour view
by
NANCY MITFORD
the writer whose devastating observations on social behaviour, with the cult of U and Non-U, has made her the high priestess of the refinements of the British way of life. Today she casts her critical eye back over the fifties and dissects the decade with wit, perception and, alas for the fifties, crushing disdain.
DECADES have a way of attracting adjectives to themselves: the Roaring, the Hungry, the Naughty, and so on. It is an ungrateful thing to say of ten years one has enjoyed very much, but am afraid the 1950's may well be regarded in future times as the Ugly or the Dull.
any
I
(London Express Eervico)
The facts that flavoured
the 'FIFTIES
In- ten years, they said, we would be growing bananas in London squares. Fourteen years have gone by
—the bomb is larger than ever, but where are the bananas?
THEN, in March 1953, Stalin
But we are now told that the ups and downs, heat and cald,
will not be unlike during this century and are died, a death destined to make journey an Atlantic crossing.
now entitiert to a more equit the greatest change in the At the end of it, out of the able existence, We must only World Power climate of the windows of overheated hotels, hope that it will not be 100 fties: we shall see sportsmen, dressed ugly and too dull," pour le skt, leaping (owing to
lack of gravity) like the Duke LOOK BACK
und Duchess of Windsor in
This latest photograph.
their
seems an anti-climax.
IN WONDER
The bomb OVER THESE
Atomic power has not yet pro-
duced anything to make up for MEMORIES
All in
ten years
the fact that the bomb Is. a brute, I remember when the or course,
decade
first one fell the newspapers, in following the 'forties. the
The 'Afties are responsible for their enthusiasm for now age, most exciting in our history, is
other marvels much of the damage and the said that ameng almost sure to seem monotonous end does not seem to be in view, we could now expect would be by ecntrast.
It is impossible ય
the world is going which way and whether the next 100 years will be glorious or tedious but, if the 1950's are a pointer, tedium seems to be winning.
Ugliness
tell
The 'Afties have been an age
of ugliness, Durly because people are divided in matters of taste.
Those who want the now and those who love the old cannot arrive at a compromise. Modern buildings may be beautiful in themselves; it is not fair to jumble them
higgledy-
up
| piggledy with old ones.
In any case all towns nowa- days are made hideous motor-cars.
by
They used to be elegant in
taking no pride in them.
the Television,
our change in a man-made
bananas in TEN
day
EVEREST was conquered;
Jater crowned,
1
the Queen W14
Thli WAS the turning point, the
dared to call they Elizabethan did really bring
a break-through
AN UNKNOWN chorus girl
called Audrey Hepburn burst upon
the screen in "Roman Holiday," was
shot;
star
AMERICA had put 题
one
War
ясто ля the While House: President Ike;
A FORMER special con-
national pastime of this decade, is un- climate.
The thing on
stable called Jobn Reginald bearably ugly.
In 10 years, they said, we
Halliday Christie Wha ught which it is projected is a loath-
years when gradually the nafter sickening series of some piece of furniture; the would be growing faces of the learned men who London squares. Fourteen years austerity corset was unisced... women murders disseminate wisdom from it are have gone by the bomb is the world took fts First XOGER BANNISTER can the grey, convex, and distorted; the larger than ever, but where are very chairs on which they so the bananas? urinhibitedly loll are fakes.
I have only seen television once and would have liked it had it not been so hideous. It
Dullness
Boring
cautious breaths of expansion first four-minute mile ... it seems hard to remember A NEW kind of cofica it now, buk-
changed Thore than drinking habits; espresso bars brought a THERE was still rationing: non-intoxicant intelligentsio; petrol and food in many coun- SUPERMARKETS were.
catching on, and with them frozen food:
must be a boon to many people Machines for living cro a tries when alone with the loved one deplorable new contrivance,
how they must welcome the whether they are inhabited by THE Berlin air-lift had just WITCH-HUNTING zot a new. ́. grey, convex
shadow of Lord, bratters or
workers they make' finished, the Cold War was sub- meaning with Senator Mic- Boothby!
'minteresting lives. Both hens zero;
Carthy in America's anti-Red end, humans like to roam about
KOREA
came in July 1950, hysteria, which fortunately was with a little frondom in the sim-
not to last: shine, to bring up the chicks war on the 38th Parallel
A YOUNG generation with BANANAS were being calen in a nest of their own.
time to kill spawned the Teddy The new look cheap, the old Some sociological and scientific
Boy: look dirty: the whole effect is ideas of the "nities could lead to notion that the world belongs
What are we to think of the again in Britain.
PEOPLE were niready getting "MARILYN MONROE swayed depressing.
very great dullness, United to teenagers? Very boring, if it
"Rommel" into visions wider, more spee
vision with Cinema- States of Europe is a noble con- is true. Get along with you, old nostalgic about war: ception, no
was published, became forerun- tacular doubt, but it is Son of Lamiere,' I hear them depressing.
RIGGER, the BOMBS GOT say, Alan, that status will sooner of best selling battles re- scope; fought; European countries, Dil as be theirs, poor ducks, deposed at
H-bomb brought a stalemate of their way; now, they are different as chalk from cheese, the age of 20. What will the THE TORIES clambered back tear: shoddy and often dirty: owners nye produced between them rest of their lives be like?
10 power In October 1951, the RUTHI ELLIS murdered her mokes A horrid footame of the Vifties Socialists went into an Opposi lover outside a Hampstead pub We are obliged to see thou- everything
has been the prevalence of tion that was to last for the and was hanged for it; sands at these objects wherever
CHURCHILL Cnded a tumul We KO: For thousand years they shems. From artificial insemi- rest of the decade:
DEATH: of King George VI, tuous publie career, churches, houses, and menu- have pullulated with genius. The nation to nylon lace, so many
Street's prosses ments cannot appear to their furious, rivalries between them things are contrived to seem February 1952, Long Live The while Fleet
Queen
were silences by a strike; best advantage among the little have led to dreadful human what they are not.
Everything artificiul is dreary. BRITAIN exploded her, Arzi suffering but have sharpened
GENEVA and a word that lin boxes,
The cult of a machine which the wits of the rivals,
Take air-conditioning. We now atom bomb in autumn of 1962 stirred great hape: "Summit,” sluys
uniform temperature at Woomera, in Australia, and but proved only to be a mock- mid malms, puffs out Federations such as the U.S., fod cancer-giving Purace, and gener- Switzerland, and the USSR, wherever we go. The heat of the became the third atomic Power, dawn
of the North GERMANY provided: tho ally makes life odious, will not yeem to prodies golden-hearted South, the cold loat for evét. Human beings will fbtitudes with nothing in the cist-fb-mbre in-rooms which theme for the hit song of the invent ... somné
"Auf Wiederschen," other way of upper storey.
#TS AB Warm by the door, as 'by moment, getting about, of after which she The magic moon, rising over the empty fireplace: the remalt and records begun spinning to a The battles of the decade shall look back with horror' at sea or mountains, used 10 011 1s that we lose that sense of different spoed; the Long had been drawn. Not all of this aspect of the "fiftica.
our, minda with vägise, postte contrast which is the very sple® Playing Record: had sirived;
SONG FRAh 67 mdfinger somewhere It is hardly worth mentioning thoughts.... How, Gloriam to of life. that the English countryside is, swish to it and and chencks However it is possible that on the button bam being molled at a ghually rate, alojus upon ita mountains. hukman beings hava bad – eough backdrop:
deplorable
which civilised lito worth whille.
ironically
them
the
would endure. But the Diazoli"Want"on ·
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