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TUR SATURDAY
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EDITONS FRENS SERVICE.
"I wish you wouldn't call the newspapers, Fred. Five is common with dogs."
William Hickey
A Policeman's Life
AM assured that, despite the disturbances which kindle such exquisite joy in the heart of Mr Ben Hecht, recruit- ing for the Palestine Police proceeds
much very normal times.
25
in
But, chatting with several would- be constables awaiting their medical
tests, I found their reasons for join- Ing to be anything but a desire to project themselves into Not one of them as much as tioned the "troubles."
What they did confess was urge to escape from jobs too
men-
on
We talked. Until the Germans swaggered into Faria, she was: a Opera- permanent member of the
Comique. There she had made her name playing such diversified roles
as Carmen and Mignon.
Nothing in Life for You ?
What is succons? It la dociding what is worth while for you personally to attain-and then attaining it. It is not always money. This is the story of three young Socialists who have invested In their own brains " by
going back to the factura room..
MONEY
NO OBJECT
THREE young men-an ex-
paratroop major, a crane driver,
trolley-bus driver-sit eating cod and boil- ed potatoes at a polished maho-
gany table in Oxford.
They eat their food abstract- edly and argue about litera-
ture
JOHN DEANE POTTER
7
Job he drove munition workers to their work in factories near Rother- ham.
planned to go to Oxford-be- fore the war. broke out, and as soon as it ended ha applied for a trade union scholarship, 1e was by this Lime secretary of tits local union and was one of the first-students
at *reopened Ruskin..
with the eyes of o stranger.
He does not smoke or drink, but. Interest he, too, finds that his budget is He began to tako an these in local politics and trade union down to the bones. In the sum-
mer vacation he drove a bus be-
For every minute of the day Ia an adventure for three-and 80 other students' work.
When Ashley was 20 there tween London and Oxford in order attend like them in this Oxford col- lege. They are at Ruskin, the was a shortage of dustbins in to errn many money and
He has chosen to stay at Oxford adult college, to learn the way Widnes. Both the local coun- special lectures af Balliol.
colleges. After to a new life in the postwar cil and the landlords said they at one of the old
were unable to obtain any. Jack that, at the age of 34, he intends to world.
Ashley thought otherwise. stort a new life as a teacher in his
He walked to the main road native Yorkshire. and thumbed a ride in a lorry. Tweve hours later he was in
was ance
Toscanini, three at 32, was a bus driver Serge Koussevitsky and Stokowski.in his home town of Rother- And when these gentlemen waggle ham. their little sticks in front of a
DAZED
- to
Oxford-voleed Major Corfield
A different type. He has been
is
at
A
prior to the
ว
but career
Twenty-seven-year-old Tony Corfield, for instance, had beon a test jumper of parachutes at an experimental Army school; London, having hitch-hiked all Oxford before as a result of shock-haired Jack Ashley, 24 the way. He went into a big scholarship he won
He went to an elementary years old, had spent most of his ironmonger's, found it crammed war.
school in Charlton, S.E., wen
to Colft's Grammar WITHOUT bothering the Nazis life in the poorest part of the with dustbins at 13s. 3d. each. scholarship
town of He ordered half a gross on industrial
be Rehool in Lewisham, and one to for permission. Jenny skipped grimy
Atlantic. Fol- Widnes, and
ex- Keble College, Oxford. the half of the Widnes Council, nut and across the
plaining that it was subject
He wanted to be a teacher, she got youngest councillor in Britain; confirmat Then he hitch-hiked the war cut his university lowing a quietish debut, nicely Into her American stride in russet-shirted John Whitehead, back to Widnes and interviewed the shert after two years, and he join- ed the Army in 1941. After being 1042, when Inside two months she with the green tie, oldest of the astonished town clerk.
in action in North Africa, he volun- Arturo crap. appeared under
feered for the paratroops and was drafted back to England. He end- THAT official, slightly dazed, not in ed the war at an Army school teal- hazardous parachuter, a Now they all lead the same I touch with the health commit-ing, new mezzo-soprano, that is success.. life. The gong goes at 7.30 in tee. They said the cost was prohibi- Job.
While he was at Oxford he met From time to time during our the morning and they attend tive, but agreed to pass the order over to the property owners. They also turned the dustbins down. But a girl undergraduate and they were
married after she had taken talk, Miss Tourel was inclined to their first lecture at nine.
have The two single men stray away from the subject under
Ashley had proved his point.
degree. Now they have a girl aged review, to raise some starry-eyed about 15s. n weck pocket money
When the war was over he heard two and a boy 12 months, about un up-and-coming from their scholarship grants,
When he was demobilised, Cor young ex-skyjumper query
wanted und applied for a scholarship. fleid decided that he still
teacher. It was a risk essay, to be pointed out, joining this force (which young fellow she was rather hoping which means that they have to that Rustin Collegs was reopening is not without its glamour appeal, to meet over here before returning count every cup of tea. Their Candidates had to write an
awarded the miss the jobs that were going, but is home,
tuition fees of £125 n. year are and for his he was
he had made up his mind on some- similar to Canada's Mountics)
paid for them and include board Malcolm Stewart scholarship. getting abroad one sure way of
This pays his fees
gives thing better. So he applied for He was one of our quickly.
him just enough pocket money to further 12 months' training at Rus- and lodging.
a Govern- As Jack Ashley, wearing an keep him in clothes and the 3s. Bd. kin and was awarded open-necked cricket shirt, said: worth of tobacco he smokes every ment scholarship
For this chance I would go week, into a concentration camp two years."
That is the sort of Ashley is.
duli
to be lunger endured; to get away from the humdrum, the frustrations, the disappointments..
As
one
public per-
Even their initial training formers she had often seen and ad- is done in Palestine.
mired and applauded, but only from auditorium. the murkiness of the Never had their paths cross:d. spoken to cach Never had they
litan
JENNY
OF
WHEN recently there arrived on
British shares the. Metropo- nther.
soprano Opera
But if by some political pull,
could TOUREL, she was press-agented through friends at Court, i as being ilus-o-French, shough often possibly feex it for her to call on ask, busker just to This inlented mistaken for Spanish, Brazilian and Italian.
shall we say, how business was with This UNOesque description failed him these days, then Carnegie Hall mine any time I cared to defences. Until was to penetrate our
"Her wrap it up and take it away. someone thought of adding:
His name: LAURENCE OLIVIER. Justrous and eyes big, black, slightly slanted-give you a feeling of the Persian, as if she were look- ing-over-n-nose-vel Upon which, ail organised resistance ceused.
TAILPIECE QUOTE: "Women are all right alone. It isn't till you get them together they get mad I can now report at
Arst-hand with you. Of course, in time they that Miss Tourel is more French get mad with each other, too. But than Russian, more Russian
then it's too late to do anything about it Perslan, and perhaps more Ameri- then."-From the new play. "Boys
can than any of these.
in Brown."
12/- START
and
for
He does not want to go back to crane driving again. What will
SHARING
her.
to
hr do? He has not made up his AURFIELD has about £4 a week man mind yet, but old scholars of Rus- from his grant. He ands it a
on
kin can show him the way. They tight squerza, too, especially when include two deputy Speakers of the one of the babies wants a new
Robert or aomo
Loy Commons, House of
Sir
more clothes. But he Young and Captain Hubert Beau- would not change places with any- mont, Mr Jack Lawson, the former one. In the evening ho cycles started work at 14
of home, plays with the children for 12s. a week filing carboys War Minister, and 22 members
the present Parliament.
a while, and then gets down to his with neid in a chemical works.
Another man like Ashley is ex- books. After a year or two he graduat- trolleybus driver John Whitehead of When he leaves college he hopes. ed to other odd jobs like con Eastwood-view, Rotherham, Yorks, to go in for adult education-shor- crete mixing and coalheaving, He also started work at 12s. a week ing the knowledge he acquired at until he settled down as a crane as an errand boy.
、、 Ruskin with other young men and At 17 he became a bus conductor. women. He also discovered the great writers. I left the three young men argu- driver at £5 a week.
But sharp-eyed-Jack-Ashley While he punched tickets his heading, talking, gesticulate And..
with Swift
and whenever anyone tells
that was different from the other was swimming
Shakespeare. All his there is no adventurojsiz/g,
-oved youths with whom he worked Shaw and en building jobs. He was able spare time was spent studying Eng- remember those
young men sitting at that 'mahogany Just before the war he graduated table in Oxford with only a low to project himself outside the lish literature at night schools. life to which he had been born, from conducting to driving a bus, killings in their pockets and the and gaze at his surroundings Throughout the war-frozen in his wide world at their feat.
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
.
1.
THE heading "Customs Seize from Chili, Dear Sir, the lowest Quite pointless
Three Salmon" reminded stratum, consumes 32 percent more ac- riboflavin than it did in 1936, me of the ludicrous story of carding to cures supplied by the the man who dressed up as a Dietary bishop, and concealed a large, Board. saimon inside his hat.
hat
He took off his hat to mop his brow, in the Customs shed, and an official was so startled that he cried out. "Why, that bishop's got a-
In his
Everybody salmon ronred
and with
laughter bishop" col rough with his fish. were rolling while the officials about helplessly. But let not this encourage smugglers. The officiais now, the moment they spot a bisling, give him that sidelong glance which is colled the ratafafa in Corsica... Charabia
NOTHING is more fun than
"controversy"
(Average)
Computation
Comparative diet figures
(official)
Fatty
Note the discrepancy, due to marginal differentiation. S.O..W. S.
Geoffrey Fungua PROFESSOR
wishes it to be known that he has changed his name by deed-poll: to Phungus. He grew weary being asked if he was one of toe edible Fungl. The Joke is that he will grow Just as weary of being asked if he is one of the edible Phung!.
Atta, Lanta!
AN article about poetry readings A article about poc that Alm-
actors draw the biggest audiences. I bet they do. Who wouldn't cross the road to hear Dame Grable read "Atalanta in Calydon"? I wouldn't, Question time
SKED in the House by Mrs Well whether the camels bought in Arabia to supplement our rations
cricket an Indian the WRITING of about whether team at Lord's, a correspondent we were in a Sunday paper, said that after we are better fed than before the war. Here is a question one of the players had fallen uver would not be rather tough, an, un- fool replied: "Not. their to which every sane human being on the wet ground and messed up known
his readjusted from his own, his trousers, ""he
ruled knows the answer
curs, Muin." The Speaker
und a experience. But does that stup shirt so that it came outside hin the Intruder, out of order, the spate of words? Fortunately
Assistant Private Parlia it trousers. All the rest of the alde Deputy
shows mentary Under-Secretary of State doesn't Dear Sir, Mr Glapiron is followed suit." This only
go to the confusing non-basic foodstuffs with how profressive the Indians were said: "They will only
Sir, hasic foodstuffs. Dear. Mrs long before the organised campaign expensive restaurants, where their Wakger forgets that there is no of the Shirt Outside Wulst humps. will be served on, toast, as starch
In the wet ment-biscuits coat Society.
serpents', roes."
NANCY Careful, Sluggo
NANCY WANTS TO BORROW' MÝ SLEDGE HAMMER.
SHE SAID SHE'D
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