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Questions on Page 9
1. Practical Joker. 2. Grazing. Neat are caitle. 3. Viscount help Britain to recovery by im- Jowitt, Lord Chancellor. 4. Kerry porting as many British goods as it Blue terrier. 5. Saxophone, "in- vented by Adolphe Sux, 6. George Marshall. 7. Kind of mint, for-
could.
9.
10.
Comic opera, "Serse
Spider (it has elght legs an insect, alx).
Not a single application to im- merly used as medicine. B. Bell- port British goods to Swizerland, Iringer. was told, has been turned down by (1738). the Swiss authorities, however luxurious and superfluous the Im- port may have been. At the sama time the Swiss are exporting all they can to Britain to help in recon- struction. This they consider The best, way to bring back the tourlate.
Bitterest complaint of the authorities against
the British
Swiss
Is
that the ban was imposed after they had made special efforts to facilitate the visit of large number
a tourists for the winter sports sea-
SOTI.
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzle.-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947.
Hook-up with
INSIDE U.S.A., by John Gunther. (Hamish ́Hamil-
ton, 218.)
E goes everywhere, meots everybody, knows evory-
a know-all
thing. His archangelic would be immeasurably more view is something which civili- satisfying if he gave them sation lus lacked.
He is one of the rare birds beginnings and middles, who gaze down from the vacuum of omniscience at the Great and the Humble.
+
THE RAPE OF MAN OR THE 700 LET LOOSE, by Donald Cowic. (Tantivy Press, 12s. 6d.)
-REVIEWS BY JOHN PUDNEY
I fell for the verbatim report of
the Old Bailey trial, though I am no
Judge of its legal" significance, I mention it as an example of the format and the vernacular blending relentlessly to climax and finale.
*
* ☆ THE DEADLY PERCHERON, by J. F. Bardin. (Gollancz, 85. Gd.)
the publishers optimistically LABOURED parable, which
English-speaking person to live urge shall be compared with Do not suppose that'I am the only Voltaire's "Candido" and Swift'a 38 years without finding out what a "Gulliver." The "famous young percheron, is. Nor, I warrant, am 1 poet whose massive Poetical the only one to live that long with- slightly at the mention Works has been the poetry of the word psychology. best seller of the year" is the modest trumpet blown for Mr Cowic.
out
Though
What they seem to see is re- Jayed over world hook-up. Sometimes they are right, some- times wrong. Most of us fall for their stuff because they are 80 expert at mixing their inti- macies with the Great and their generalisations about the Humble.
Such is John Gunther, doyen of the know-alls, whose new ex book is a slick, haustive, readable
of his survey continent. I have not read all tho 920
The narrator of the story is a Now psychiatrist who begins sanely closely printed pages and probably
enough by receiving a visit from nover Vol assign them the stature of young man wearing a red hibiscus I recommend shall.
in his hair. We begin to slide off into the shadows when the visitor explains the book for two rea-In fairness to Mr Cowie, who is song alone,
not the author of his own blurb, let that he is paid by leprechauns to the thing. Then the psychla- First, the index, I me add that he is master of
rich Wear D
own
I found his scenes describing the revolt of the animals and vegetables against mankind to be massive only in their ponderous humour. Since
with such peaka comparison
and Swift is invited, I re-
ns
thing paychological thriller in which percherons plant elight but ugly part, I bet I shall be the only one to sit sleepless, bair erect, and psychologically intoxicated over it.
York
exhattslively dwelt upon the boring messinesa. I rould not screw more than an occasional diggle out of it,
There is a handful of
character sitetches, the
athelst, the health crank, the good-earth
pundit, and Miss Roper, a well-drawn English haviour, these cannot stretch their eccentric. For all their peculiar be- vein and
pretentious Ilves with printed pages. enough interest over 249 elavaly
Mr Denys Val Baker is an active and discriminating collector of short stories, and he has edited several Ho should excellent anthologies. know better than to offer this heavy duft about highbrows so sparsely leavened with currants of wit.
★
☆ *
TEN STORIES By Rudyard Kipling. (Pan-Books, 1s, Gd.)
SOME unknown person hon made, criminating choles from among the tales of Rudyard Kipling.
for a modest price, a most die-
They display the variety and tem- per of the man as on artist, destroy the Kipling myth and re-establish a live appetite for a great writer who
his
has been a stuffed and formidable
THANKS
BEFORE GOING, by John Masefield.
DUMB-RELLS
FREGISTERED UŽAS PHEENT ORICE
SOMETIMES IONT. IT THE OSTRICH WONDERFUL „BURIGS ITS
HEAD IN THE SAND!
REA BERE WHERE IT
• MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Cross-Ruff Good Offensive Strategy
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
WITH the Increased interest in
read all its 32 pages. variety of language, employs nice trist meats one of the leprechauns 15 (William Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) American slara are planning to at-
It led me straight to half
↓
dozen things I wanted to know about America, colourfully fact- ually, set out.
Second, the dips. Random dips
turns
of phrase. There is on using characterisation such as "a certain number of fidgely, seedlings." Puns such "a good thyme on a Sunday morning" seemed fatish by the time page 108 was reached. I began to the remaining 54 pages.
a bar, there is the first mention of
and percherons, the fun begins.
There is a sudden death, a soupeon TB Roar augere publishes such pionships to be held at Montreal.
It is
in these pages provide facts and dread the puns that might lurk in his reason. 16ollect feeling corry Gabriel Rossetti, the way to produce problem-declarer löocs a epada and
*
☆
The
tournament bridge, more Canadians ard participating in American tournaments, and Ameri- cana are visiting Canadian tourma- ments in larger numbers. Several
lend the Province of Quebec Cham-
literary rng-bag that it Is Jim- Samuel F. Tilden of Montreal was of Lorture, and a prolonged beanfeast
cult to suggest what is good for the in my office
and wo recently
got. average reader to pick out, unless of psychological phenomena,
around to
to a discussion of psychiatrist ses his identity, be the rare quality of sheer en- Tho
bridga hands. He brought up today's hand, his memory, his wife, and very nearly thusiasm.
which I think is a clever one. At is the only occasion on Masefield's themes cover Danto Arst glance there seems to be no which I can views of America which are
for a pas cutortaining,
"Macbeth" the vagaries of a jack-two diamonds. But it is not es easy educational, all
are the most ac daw called Peter, and the rigging of ne that. It talte nice play and a the better for being discovered
IF PITY DEPARTS. by Robert complished neurotics of our time; and model ships. Whether you have
this talo by chance.
presents you with the taste for any or all of these you will bouquet of Transatlantic find the precise and lucid enthusiasm Here is Gunther casing us Atthill. (Andrew Dakers, 58.) neatest
neuroses, all labelled and matched-up of the author's
prose quite a tonic. dexterously into the presence of
TT is not from lack of conscience ultimately in a showdown.
Many a Masefield work, I conf
confess, I that I have failed to recommend Henry Ford:----
It is, I warn you, an exhausting has borged me down in the past, 20 Well now,
let me sec,' a new books of poetry this summer. way of finding out what a percheron that I have wondered at my youth- Mr Ford said jerkily, when I There is no lack of verslflers. Verse Is. Dr George Matthews, the psychla ful enchantment with the Laureate's asked him about the origins writing, indeed, seems to come next trist, plunging, as the publisher says, work, Quite Inte in Hife, however, I of this project which is at only to the making up of offeinl "into a cataclysmic whirlpool," takes have found myself skimming through
In and football pools the you on a lurid jag into Insomnia. The the rigging of model ships with the talents of the inky post-war Briton, publisher is blurbing: I am nearly greatest case, borne alóf by the
Robert Atthill's first book stands serious.
unsuspected enthusiasm of the Poet Laureate's prose. out because of his exact and vivid use of words: "The
P
once stupendous and in a curious way absurd. So we are admitted into the jerky philosophy which de clared history to be bunk.
This is not great literature: it is monumental, competent re- porting. Like all good oneyclo- pedias, it will be useful as a bedside book.
*
* PRIESTS, PETERS AND PUSSENS, by Oswald Blakes- ton. (The Fortune Press, 78. 6d.) stories, HERE are 35 short
forms
suave voice,"
he writes. "with its casual arithmetic of death booming in a million shut- tered homes." That shares the ex- perlence of war briefly, poetically, Guccessfully.
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HANGED BY A THREAD, GETHER, by Denys Val Baker. (Sampson Low, 8s. 6d.)
by Denis Haddow. (Hutchinson and Co., 88. Gd.) THOSE people who band themselves poem together into self-conscious com-
PLAZONED across the dust cover munities in the depths of the coun- are the words "£10,000 United slight slip on the part of the de-- try in order to practise a New Life Nations Literary Competition Selec-fence to make the contract. can seem funny and weird to the tion." Who selected it, I wonder, and The opening lead of the club king' conventional breadwinner. They also what has happened to the literary to trumped by declarer, who makes can seem boring and messy.
house, he writes, in the title poem of the small, well-tempered volume, There is no abundance of such lines in this book. But there is a pro- mise of ringing eloquent poetry, and that is what we have been looking for.
THE TRIAL OF LEY AND SMITH. Edited by C. E. Bech- hofer Roberts. (Jarrolds, 16s.)
some of them one inch in length, in a slim volume of 62 pages. Having recommended Gunther at a guinea, I must be mean about Blakeston at 78. 6d. of us were involved in the or- IT seems only yesterday when most If there were unique qualities, ganisation of wholesale sudden rare specialised knowledge, or death. Already the death of one last fine poetry to justify such a unfortunate bar-tender killed volume at such a price, I would autumn Bills a volume, and provides acclaim it. All that is offered me, almost against my will, with an
evening's reading. is a collection of snippets with curious slants, imaginative trifles, nicely written end- pieces.
Mr Blakeston has a gift for trick endings. His stories
SIXTH FORM BOYS VIEW OF PARSONS
Boys at Bristol Grammar School were asked recently to give their views on the Church and religion.
Here are some of the things they sald:-
1. Vicars are either at home in the
past or intellectually incapable of
2. Too many clergymen go on with
Across: 1 and 4, Into Battle; 5, ilving in the present. Aloe; B, Narration; 11, Sucb; 12, Take; 13, Unalter; 14, a.m.; 15, Lyre; the care of souls when they should be 17, Amulet; 20, Oil; 22, Taproom; 20, superannuated. Why does the Church Dalryman; 27, Desperate.
protect crass inefficiency?
Down: 1, Insulated; 2, Nanny; 3, 3. Today it is considered stupid, Orb; 4, Sec 1 Across; 5. Attent; 0, cissy and even funny to be n Liar: 7, Enemy; D. Rear; 10, Okapi, Christian. of
18, Comma; 18, Made; 19, Upas; 21, Lane; 23, Rip; 24, Ore; 25, Sat.
They had (1) rushed an order for
down
4. I think the Church is too much associated with bazaare, dances and whist drives. It does not do enough sheer teaching of its flocks, in the
Monuments. Of Dead Ago
Mr Bechhofer Roberts has seduced me with a masterly summary of the case, sklifully combining Journalism
and law. I was compelled to read every word of this summary of "The Chaik-Pit Murder" in order to ap- preciate the asides.
CHESS PROBLEM
By R. MAZEL
Black, G pieces.
White. 6 piecca.
X
White to play and mate in three.
Solution ta yesterday's problem:
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munica
75 de Havilland jet fighters through should have been left to guide the ways of Jesus.
"The average sixth-former will the Swiss Parliament in order that new generation. I agree.
Jiko and trust a priest only after the 20,000,000 Swiss francs
ho has proved him, notwithstanding payment should help balance the On my trips around Europe during
the dog collar. Anglo-Swiss trading position; (2) the last year I have
Telling 300 clergymen of this at the Crequently
"We must give young people the all through the rest of the year they found embassies staffed in the top Bristol Diocesan Conference, Mr. Joha impression that we are working 'hell had ratloned the number of British positions with newcomers who had Garrett, the school's headmaster, said: for leather to save them for the visitors to Switzerland so as to save to learn the country. It is good to "If you do not wake up from what Church, up 40,000,000 Swiss francs for the make changes, But don't cut all the Winkle sleep, you will find that the our churches will be regarded merely i sometimes think is your Rip Von "If we don't, in a generation's time British to spend on winter sports,
leads off. One at a time is enougsture of Hollywood will have taken as interesting. manuments of a dead THE RUHR: That's the the place of the stars of Heaven.
Now they have the 40,000,000
franda left over, but no tourists to spend them.
AMSTERDAM: Good diplomats are scarce ON
N my fight back from Zurich I stopped off In Amsterdam for
n few hours. I found my Dutch friends gloomy at a piece of news from the British Embassy.
stuff, Sir Brian!
LIKE the tono adopted Lieut.-General Sir Brian Robert- son in talking to the Germans about in the Ruhr. the dismantling of their factories
Herr
Sald he to the protesis of Arnold, Prime Minister of the Huhr- Rhine Province:
Sir Nevilo Bland, the ambassador, "I have not come here to threaten and Richard Laming, the commercial you with force, but just counsellor, are both
are being
over 60,
as little
going. They have I come to plead for your sup- retired because they are port. We are going to speak about,
how the plants are to be dismantles,
Both Sir Nevile and Richard not whether they are to be dis-
Laming have a long experience of
mantled."
the Netherlands. They know the That is the slut to give the Gor- Dutch, and the Dutch trust.o them; maris, . No
appool. No argument.
My friends in Amsterdam are upset The. Germans themselves will appre that both of them aro being ro- elule this firmness. This way Sh moyed together. One of them Brian will get things done.
NANCY Baby Talk
I LOVE MINDING
BABIES
uge."
IT MAKES YOU FEEL BO GROWN-UP ----- JUST. LIKE AN-ADULT
Mr Val Baker's long novel about such a community in Cornwall 130
Large herbaceous plant growing in warm climates, bearing a flower like a convolvulus.
abilities of the United Nations? am not fussy about split infinitives, but I wonder if the author really de- served all that money for writing such a sentence as this (Page 30)
1 haven't had time to really sort it
out yet."
Rupert and the Three Guides-29
Stili searching for the gipsy's tree Rupert gets deeper and deeper into the wood until a little chuckle near his car pulls him up sharply. The Guides Beryl and Janet are peeping
him through the leaves. Gracious, how you made me jump." says Rupert. What..Arg you doing Well," says Janet. "Beryl thought we oughtn't to chase robbers so we're after squirrels #gain and we've found something awfully queer, Pauline's waiting there. Do come with us."-
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
the peculiar play of leading a small heart to the jack. East wins and decides to return another club to ruff
declarer down. Of course declarer must not make the mistake at this point of cashing the ces and queen of hearts in order to discard o dia- sond and ruff a heart in dummy, because there is danger that dummy De- may be overruffed by East. elnter leads a small diamond, which West wins with the jack. The con- tract still can be defeated It West
returns a
back anosump. Fast wins and leads
not
West.
trump.
But this does
look like the right play to. He leads another club. South
ruffs, and now he has set the stage for a nice cross-ruff. He cashes the ace and queen..of hearts, discarding: a diamond from dummy. The ace of diamonds is cashed, a diamond ruff- ed in dummy, and dummy's Inst club- Is ruffed. The only other trick the opponenta can tako is the ace of spades.
Skeleton Crossword
CLUES ACROSS
3. Buoh
squad may Do clumsy, but it usually on the square.
9. This trick's
grotesque
and colo sal on a two- Whocler,
10. Defoe, z
Hamb might call 111223. 11. What sounds
liko na at fectionata romark 13 the poor chap's only
po às canlon
(two words),
12. Though
of despair,
14.
nat tiouice.
healthy spot it is the centre
10. Feeling bobbish F
17. You and your kind confuse the lovers when you lolo your head.
18.
setul thing to have if the boer runs out
21. Carried away? Certainly not. 24. J'art of a hayrick in Sectland,
alta-
28. how to make things go far
thor in this Leppel.
20. Pint due? by his failure ons
might get it
27. Six-in-one.
36. The boredom of that siren
29. Though only hangers-on, they
can certainly producg foruită. *
CLUES DOWN
1. Traversing this, ons is not on
dry land.
THERE'S JANIE WITH MRS. SMITH'S CHILD ---WE CAN
STROLL ALONG. TOGETHER
2. Many a travoller depende on
the nowadays,
4. No, I excavator? (three words).
Toll, maybe, put po six. Am fool, like" đốt it seems,
to husid.
8. Hostal diat impairs strength you may and
7. Bottled spirit 7,
one's
18. Maq, as a cup-hunting athlete.
Works mechanically
shall we say f
18. It sounds as if the Inles might
Tuped some olle
13. What the hotel score? Gay
about all.
19. A Scotsman leards Herbert
with some galloon.
20. It follows the little man with
the whilstis.
Al. ruit onia by chance that the
Chip I held
22. Ko has the girl up for some
hale dre 23. Alateria E mend possibly.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY SAID THE CUTEST THING
TODAY
clue
Te black suures and
numbers. - ne well as the words, have to be lifted in by blreis of this crossword. Four Black squares and four cluo numbers have been inserted to give you a start,
As the pattern of black squares is animetrical, the left and right Hond sides balance and the lop and bottom haires correspond. You can, therefore, All In ten more black squares at once in positions corresponding with thoan ziren,
Note that Nos. 1 and 2 are Down glues only, therefore the second quare in the top row must be blacked in, since no words of two letters are used except in phrases. This will also give you three more black squares. For the same Bason 14 Across must be a three-~ Bitter word.
Bensoning on these lines you cal bulla up the puftis.
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