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QUOTE
by the Justice of the Pence Review:
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Did the
ESIRABLE as it is to committal
to prison of persons under 20, young offenders must not be allowed to work on the assumption that be. cause of their age they are
do as privileged to please.
by Lord
they
Chesham, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, speaking to lurry drivers In Birmingham:-
THE
THE number of road ac- cidents in this coun- try is
of the ono
great social disasters of the time. There is general pressure for urgent action to tackle this problem.
*
-by Lord Casey, former
External Australian
Minister, in Melbourne-
THE British
Affairs
Common-.
wealth may become Commonwealth on paper
if Britain and Australia do not show greater interest in the problems of
the
Asian members. More of consequence visit India
people
should
Pakistan.
and
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1960.
JACKY'S DIARY & JACKY Mendelsohn They got a SOLD JER There WHO'S
Yesterday We Went To Visit Uncle JERRY Whose in The APMY
| Daddy explanEd me how Lots of Solbjers got StripES ON THEIR UniNforms, anD ALSO how the More You got, The HIRE Up You are
a PRIVATE
in the 1st Class
HOW THE JOBLESS
QUEUES COMPARE
Percentage of unemployed
BRITAIN
W. GERMANY
1.4
(CORPUSCLE) (SOUP)
CANADA
4.9
5.9.
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LOGAN
(what's the (Uncle
PASSWORD
Daddy SAID The Man
JERRY
Was dow
Bing. What
THEY
call
CENTURY
DUTY
FinELY We found Uncle Jerry on the DRill feel, where hE WAS Praktising
Marching information.
Hip HUP,
OTHER QUYS
PS. Like You CAN SEE all the
Was Out of Step ExSept Him./
GOURLAY
I get the
the first whisper of his coming
B.B.C. wants the
cynical Mr Mort Sahl
I promise a singular sense of wit......
examplat
polllical gaks.. For
By
So it's called that ON A Count of
it SEEMS Like SucH a Long TIME!
We SEEN SO MANY inNEResting Things in
THE APMY That Necks. WEEK I Will TELL YOU a bout Some more inter Jesting things we SEEN,
in The ARMY Your Friend
Jacky
-And
this in the bowler is Tradman Acker Bilk
PETER EVANS..
BEARDED Bernard Bilk stands well over 5ft.
6in. high and looks as if he has spent his 31 years being thumped on the head in a long line of Three Stooges films.
He also looks as if he has enjoyed it in a "We will now sing the No. 1 quaint sort of way.
IN America, his own country-though he's by no means proud of it topical,
some people say he has more influence now than Eisenhower, Nixon, or Kennedy.
His name is Mort Sahl, which is pronounced Saul, and that's about his only tenuous association with the Bible.
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10 bars
White
-Strictly speaking,———bels—a comic or a night club unter-
the club tainer, but he's much more than that. He's managed to House, lie's an intimate friend He's con- of Adial Stevenson, build himself. a reputation as
sulted by Nixon and Kennedy. something of 2n oracle,
As yet he hasn't been called palitical pundli.
into UNO by Mr X ar Castro.
Over five pages is he sprend quoted,
night end discussed by that American
master magazine of inverslon,
Now I hear that arrangements are being made to bring him to Britain for the first time.
He's talked about, vilined,
lauded
but sure way to be
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folk
wear
These
singers valvet shirts cuen to the navel, But they have no naveis. This of is the ultimate rejection mother.
Maybe the Russians will steal our secrets and then they'll be two years behind the times. "You can say this for our they're keeping scientists, Amerika's feet on the ground- and off the moon....
"Have you heard about the
When he comes in the next Tew months he will probably McCarthy jacket. It's like the Eppear in cabaret in London, Eisenhower jacket except it has to go over the but negotiations
now in an extra fap ate Land for him to appear on tele- mouth.
I haven't "Is there anyone vision--BBC television.
offended yet....?"
He never pauses for laughs. The caustic commentary jerks on like a gramophone record turning a little too fast,
Barbs
hli song by the coloured boy
wonder
Bongo
Yet Lumumba 'Bonge
Ibis man, this clarinet. "So 1 was- bit fed up like
from the Bongo, I don't wanna player
Somerset so I asked for u clarinet I had leave the Congo."
village of Pensford (popula to Indent for it on Form 108
the man the and practised for about five They add:
ruption 170), is "That Lumumba is as unpredictable as British beatniks have chosen hours every day. Go by the time Cousins, Mr Galtskell gives us as their leader.
"I
they
a liver every time we say that-It-le-Indeed-a-eurious choice
don't know why What they say about their own politicians is unprintable picked on me." sald Mr Bilk. (He likes to be known as Acker.) and probably accurate.
"I'm not a beatnik all. I wash, Daddy.
" more, er
type at
What?
STILL I'M
wondering
More rustic. A simple country It was on ind with a taste for cider and what it means. the back of a huge cement jazz, Except you can't get lorry and it said indecent elder nowadaya."
FATHER-IMAGE ominous red letters:
"Danger. Beware of un. propped body." Puzzle of
the pinta
they let me out 1 was mad about Jazz.!!
Mr Bük's three months Inside paid dividends.
£70 A WEEK
Today, 'Mr Bilk lives with his wife and two children in a flat in Highgate.
"I'm lonely there, Daddy. We don't know the neighbours and I'm sure they don't want to know us. There's not the closeness of village life here. At Pensford everybody knows I 'sald:: "Now you've been everybody else." scclaimed as a celebrity and
Then he discussed the high taken up by the bicutniks as a
finances of Acker Bilk, sort of bowler-hatted father-Mind
you.
Acker image. do. you miss anything modestly, "I don't make that about your old way of life?" much, The band makes about He said. "I miss the seasons £1,000 a week and my own mostly.
take is only about £70 week You Not much. But I don't mind. "I mean, take London. Of singe Sahl, bt 33, is
than I am more
the weather. I'm pretty bit in Pensford. and ho
never really sce moody, Introspective,
Nobody Even the bell-ringers swing. appears to be taking himself puzzled by this week's
The seasons slip by.
"They're real gone. Daddyo. Apart from a few enthusiasts somewhat seriously, I've heard story about the dance Instruc-notices. It's sad. You miss
on strike chestnut times and the harvest, I'm a celebrity there, man. "I'm the intellectual tresses who went hlm say:
"And if oll This ends. Because their boss Insisted that
and the rain and the sun,' a pint of milk a
won't mind too voice of the era."
But I suspect his sharp longue they drank
Mr Bilk suddenly laughed. tomorrow 1
thing is much. Then: "The funny
I've had my kicks, I' However, he is day to keep their strength up. serious about his work: "I'm They rerused on the ground started all this in prison, Yes, go on playing for fun,
"My did. Well, I was dead unlucky.
and wife and kids him.
I happen 10 know a doctor
hell with tha was In
Kate Kate clarinet and to the "He has been inbelled the hol a sick comic, I don't make that it would be fattening.
They think they're sickest of America's new sick jokes about rape and amputees."
His critics call him a nihilist, who went to the school for Carney. Army, rec-when I was beatniks.
Three of the girl found asleep on guord. In so clever. But I collect the casti comics, but mainly by the Philistines who cannot swallow but Sahl says: "I criticise tuition.
zumebody. It's only because I instructresses any humour that isn't slcken- have higher hopes for the world. were losing weight because ofERypt. Three months I got. like a banker,"
I am surprised that Auntie BBC will be the first to intro- duce the salty, irreverent, icono- clastic Sahi to Britain. congratulate her.
But I
his iccorda lke "Look Forward in Anger,
who have collected
he is still unknown here..
I must tell you more about was in check.
ingly banal or lewd.
new type
Certainly he has pioneered a of verbal comedy.
little news
complained they
The work. They asked him for
Something good to replace the bad,
a fattening diet.
(Ile'd rather praise Eisenhower Short, sharp
Perhaps than do a somersault). It's a variation of a type and styic that's been out-moded since Will Rogers.
He doesn't
Tell gags, jokes and savage
I'm sure he'll and many Britain, 1 look
with carefully timed punch lines. He's a raconteur rather than a gagster, But his stories can be jumbled. mixed-up a targets in neurotic pattern of the times and forward to his comments on our
Wonders in Whitehall, the country he lives in.
I KNOW an
intelligent dog, usually A well- behaved dog (an unshuggy Alsatian), which WAS walking past Olympia the other day with its owner. Without warning it growled and attacked two men who had stopped to I hope he'll forgive me if I H language can be esoteric,
read one of the posters loaded with psychiatrie jargon, say I hope he mortifies them.
While awaiting The arrival:
near the main door. It beat talk, campus idiom.
In'essence, he's a Arst-class of Mr Sahl two American comics performing satirist with a care- Allen and Rosal, whom.Princess was a poster advertising
smt the Plantic, The Cat Show, fully honed scalpel for the Alexandra
London Exprem Service), follies and foibles of contem- are also specialising in sharp. porary America,
political America.
particularly
I first met him and watched him perform about six years ago in San Francisco when he was rising to prominence, 1 have met and watched him many timos since. He has failed to be urgently, savagely topieni.
nover
Wearing slacks, sweater, and ticless shirt, he alanda in the middle of a night-club floor brandishing a rolled-up news- Deder. Out come the barbs in atronatie veica which ha built-in wardonio chuckle
"They say Nixon is trying to sell the country and Kemedy is trying to buy it,,
R
Just Tane That
OAD Safety Officer Stanley Shipton, a Leicester- shire police sergeant, took his car along the other Today he is a pedestrian. day for the 10-year lest, His 21-year-old 8 h.p. saloon was failed--because of its brukes.
A. COUPLE who could not find an attendant to take A their Bd. admission fee when they visited the tower of St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, have just posted it instead-48 years later.
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