OXFORD HAD STAMPS
BEFORE THE P.M.G.
Oxford Philatelic Society is finding) out: Tinteresting things in its delvings Into the cy's
part in Post. Office history.
WHEN TIME was when letter postare from Banbury to London
bong Sa, Đồà sand sight Oxford collegea Issued, their ownvi stamps as part of a comprehensive, oallego.messenger, sor vice. Indeed, Oxford played an important part in Post ---Office history. :: When the. Aela-were-passed abolishing, the--- private messenger poslal serviens» operated by many big kuzipene houses and Institutišna, Oxford, Ens well as cam- bridge) Univerzity was excluded from the order. In fact, to this day they operate, in a small way, a culingo messenger
Oxford
the only body which ́ ́ could legally fetch and carry its own mail in the 'elly. The first: Oxford postmark was 1732, although there were possibly Dearlier ones. Xi is known that the plonter in college stamps
wae'Keble, whose first lasso was made in about 1871. Other. colleges to iano their own stamps were St John's, All Souls, Exeter, Lincoln, Merion and Balliol. In 1880. however, representations from the Government caused Congregation to ban the Javrica.
FROM HERE AND THERE:
The
Pavement Artists' PRO
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JUNE 25,1949-4231 MITT
WHY DO PERFECT CRIMES GO WRONG? HERE'S AN ANSWER FROM THE BÉT, BOOKS
Mr Vickers
has a way
with a noose
THE DEPARTMENT OF
tro tormimin months of lig are left to her, Shadies be- ecause by her sown, exacting standards, she 15 until to marry "the" - good inan, who lovek jhezw But Alexandra 14 noi Alekan 'dra's love story. It the story of her friendships. It is the picture quivering with charm, vitality, and imperfection of her personality. It is, aboyo;all, the herale tale of her art
A novel of power and tender-
GLADYS SCHMITT 40 member of middle class Pennsylvania jamily, soon a scholarship at University of
· Pittsbury?-published her first starý
to Almon Goldfield, zoció) worker and composer:
GEORGE GEL34) loan in Pittsburg, married MALCOLM THOMSON
DEAD ENDS. By Roy Vickers Faber and Faber. 9s. 6d. 254 pages»
HERE, is no doubt at wore in furn. It hanged George. all who the murderer In one story after another, Vickers presents scenes, personi
T
most
BECAUSE OF THE LOCK- WOODS, By Dorothy Whipple. John Murray. 10s 6d. 358 pages.
were the
is. Roy Vickers does and motives which belong com-TE Lockwoods not deal in mystery in these pletely to life. He has a devilis lawyer's family and the stories of crime.
eye for the telling detall india So far as the reader is con- nice feeling for that comic Hunters were the children of a cerned, the fascination of this pathetic element which, especi- widow in straitened circum- author's method consists, not in ally England, companions stances. So the Lockwoods asked
the wondering who did the borrill crime." •ate
Hunters to their less impor deed, but in watching the noose
Murdor
foul, but, oh, so tant parties. And Mr. Lockwood tako substance round the engrossing I seek an audience irritably advised Mrs Hunter criminal's neck.
for Mr Vickers far beyond the about her finances and found Like a well-bred, vastly ex- "crime" pubile.
unsuitable jobs for her children perienced solicitor, sitting in *ROY VICKERS · wrote novels at the first possible opportunity, All but Thea Hunter, who NEW YORK: Even New York's to the meat port of Wyndham some dignified room in Lincoln's.ories and plays unsuccessfully for pavement artists have taken on a Cattlemen hope that ble freight Inn, Vickers puts the facts bo- so wears after leaving Ozfor.... had a mind of her ow
worked as an insurance public relations officer. That is planes-Brich Bristols and first fore his ellents precisely, in due "ghost" writer competitiona because they have found that cholcoming overcome
the order, with not a wasted word **Peturned – to, writing and won
Juctes. Preudonymarie John Spen)=- there is a market for their work, dimculty, of shifting cattle over and, certainly, nothing so un- cer. David Durham, Sefton Cute. paintings from 8-to £100. And now they dition value, want more orders.
selling for anything 200 miles without loss in con- civil as an outburst of moral ALEXANDRA. By Gladys near Paris, Thea went too, as a
Grim evidenca
Eangway while the ship was loading mest on July 6 last year. No body was found desplie a search."
Whither, Indood?
some; be
ner relax you, try seven or eight.
Unwilling Codiva FLORENCE:
A hungry cab horro tore a blouse off Signorina "CAPETOWN!" After animhing Olgu Andreuçel ns the wo half a bottle of cherished Napo-walking past the cab stand in Icon brandy in a house which he e had thoroughly ransacked, thoughtful burglar
indignation.
within
the
touching
An
job.
I
DAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
FOLL GARTN
MÁNICALTA G
STAMP NOTES
ROUND BRITAIN WITH A HIKING NEWSPAPERMAN
CROSS COUNTRY, by delightful book of England, Theo Lang, Hodder and of a walk that began at Land's-
*Wales and Scotland, "the story Stoughton, 12/6, 294 End on a grey and blustery
clay in April."
pages.
A
With this book on his kner, London newspaper offico on a foggy Febru- of mach an adventure, can walk the reader who has no chance [ary afternoon, Bat tho through the historic villages author of this book, "hot- and towns of Cornwall, along oyed with the approach of its rugged courtlins to setter) warmer Devon, norih to Bristol Au: snuffling, choking, hat and Gloucester, west to Here- ing London, hating con- ford and the Welsh coast. ferences, hating Tuesday. Sprawling weary legs over hiker's log book for the But this is more than a mere tho carpet and saying author's eyes and pen are thood nothing.
of a newspaperman, and quick to catch the atmosphere- and Than
someone said, 'Sand character of a district and its Theo on a tramp through Bri. People, Ca tain, and suddenly, there cama to me a vision of sea and pool, Manchester: Loeds
Up through-Chester, Laver-
cliffs and a brown' path wind-
and
ing over moors and mountains York, Theo Lang continued.en
hls to the far north. Thus, magic-
way to the nothernmost ally.
point foury desort
of Britain, with every February days was lit with the versations with local popic, village yielding interesting con-
tho
sunshine of a dream."
and every page of his manu-. Thus was the journey con- script filled with anecdotes and ceived which has made this new experiences, pleasant and unpleasant, to add savour to , his romanile journey.
both
THEN the Lockwood girls went to the Anishing school Schmitt. Hamish Hamil- pupil teacher. With her, sho The Perfect Fallure
ton. 9: 236 pages.
look a shabby old bag of her W
WITH 18 men in the little ship Matthew, John Cabot, NEW YORK: An executive THE murderers (on the whole, HERE is an outstanding novel, plece of paper signed by Mr days discovered Newfoundland for Britain, King Henry father's (in which she found a citizen of Venice, sailed from Bristol, and after 62 MELBOURNE: When a 14t, magazino has come out with 25 a decent body of men) have sensitive, crocodils, caught in a trap at ways to become an outstanding in each case a comprehensible sincere. The
and Lockwood, which transformed VII, was so grateful he gave him £10. Now, after 462 Wyndham (West Australia),'' failure. Some of them:Nevermotive,
portrait of the financial relations of the two years of good fortune and bad, a genuine grievance. woman, an actress. The success families. near an export meat works, was accept responsibility for a decl- They are married to the wrong is twofold: (1) The author not cut open a gold signet ring with slon; develop your ability to pass woman; they are hard up; they only creates a child-girl-woman novel with same sound portrait-a British colony, and joined up Newfoundland has ceased being honest, straightforward the Initials 3. T. was found in its the buck; get into office politles have frustrated cocial sumbitions, who is delightful at each singe stomach. The ring is belloved to with both feet, and if there And,
although few of them are of development, but also (2). Country style and a convincing.
painting in plain North with Canada. belong to John Thompson, a aren't any, start a
Intellectiually brilliant, yet by a convinces us that young English refrigeration en- patient for advancement that mixture of good luck and bad
Alexandra
And, to celebrate, the Cana- somewhat old-fashioned, and docs, become a famous gineer of the steamer Kent, who you fail to learn your present intention, cach comes
if you find a measurable distance of actress. To portray genius is an story. Mrs Whipple knows her dians have issued a stamp show- nccidentally walked off the wharf couple of cocktails before din- they are brime."
ing the Matthew in full sall. "the
the perfect
exacting test of the novelist. DOROTHY WHIPPLE, Gladys Schmitt
born at There is a French as well as English inscription because passes
Blackburn, daughter of Black to Justice, honours. Never for a moment burn architect; married a Director many Canadians in Quebec Province speak is mainly because of the does It
reader doubt that of Education for Nottingham; edu Department of Dead Ends at Alexandra is of such stuff as France, Has written sight nevels.
as eated in convents in England and languages. Now
Yard, Scotland
Face value: Four cents (about 24d.); Perforation: which the Duses and the Ellen Terrys works by guesswork and files are made only
She writes at the A TRUE STORY By 12 by 12. only useless informations. .
For example, it was to the asking too much and for offering
ead "I want to be forgiven for Stephen Hudson Falcon DDE
Press, 25s. 602 pages. here brass's
poor Ethel Fair- rubber trumpet found fault, common to the race. But Sydney Schiff, the son of a a Olga was left standing naked to
too much. The
t is a human CTEPHEN HUDSON Arst
was crawled the waist. The horse, which way. It had nothing what- the second is peculiarly by quotation from Horace: pulls a public vehicle scating ever to do with the girl's mur own." In the context, it is not wealthy. London banker. Whither, O Bacchus, wilt four persona, then bit her, and der by her husband,
dled five years ago, George mawkich, Alexandra has thou lead me, full of thee; she had to be taken to hospital. Muncey, but it brought George the right to make that boast.
A true Story is live autoblo- Horace Odes Book III."
to the dock just the zame, and
graphical novels in one-and The bride said no
This is n novel about an about 300,000 words long. It is, very plausibly, too."
actress
which is not a novel It is characteristic of the about the theatre.
ve surely, one of the remarkable theatre. No grease lights. No back-stage intrigues. the eighties of last century, to The picture of America in Alexandra is seen (through the which Richard Kurt (the hero) eyes of her enslaved Jewish is sent friend Sophie) as a rather plain father, Is a
by his disapproving girl at an ori school, then as ment. It has the freshness and
brilliant achieve the
creation of sparkle CEORGE Macartney murdered Kenneth Ellery, an
of strange ran from the Methodist Church. four her pressionable mind.
imperious
Witnessed by a young, im- The groom and the wedding the greatest possible aplomb Svengall, finally her lover." guests gave chase through the and for the insurance money. streets in a cer and for ninety He might have con.inued his lating fallure in New York, of volume. A True Story has the nobody be discouraged Of Alexandra's years of deso by the daunting size of this minutes tried in vain to carcer of profitable homicide her ultimate triumph, we hear sweep persuade her to complete the had it not been for a ruby- only at second hand. When she bracelet which each of the girls reappears again in person, only
*
Rich for a day NEW YORK: Burglars, as well as income-tax collectors, are now Hstening in to the, radio give-away programmes to rpol Tiho prize-winners.
New The York home of Mrs Ben- Jamin Cohn was broken into just 24 hours after she won £6,500 worth of prizes.
cathedral
square
that
earned
WELLINGTON: A full-dress) Vickers method that the climax. print. No glamour of the foot novels of our time..
event
wedding on a big scale, the of most important social
this story is told in one for years in the township
sentence, 15 words long. "That of
sentence Kaikohe, 189 mice north
of
has a high specifie Auckland, was wrecked by the gravity. bride at the altar rail. "I will" sold the groom, but the bride would not.
Oporation "Air-Boof" MELBOURNE: A new airling company "Alr Beef" has started business with dying cattle trucks to inke Northern Territory cattle ceremony.
She turried and
victim · and
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
TIK IS THE ONLY
· DECENT WAY TO GO AND
BUT, Borg
YOU DIFFERENT"
BUT-
BU...
-DONT-LET ANYONE TELL
Не
sconca
creative gift.
and impetus of a real
-London Express Service)
WELL FGOSISAKES THERES A LOT O' STIFF I WANT TO READ-
IN THESE... WHAT DO YOU THINK
I SAVED EM
FOR 2
THE post-master General of the Union of Bouth Africa, hus announced a special 1d. postage stamp to be issued In pommemoration of the centenary of the landing In Natal' of the 1849-1851 settlers. The design has not yet been announced, but the stump will be printed alternately in English and Afrikaenu in sheets of 120.
A HANDFUL. of, men now fight- ing an underground war from secret jungle headquarters in Java sent one of their band 7,000 miles to Vienna. There he had 18 stampa designed for his comrades-the Indonesian refugee Government, The stampa are to tell the world that Indonesians
One, pictured here, shows President Soekarno, who is a regard themselves as free, despite occupation by the Dotch. They may be the last issue and coald become very valuable. prisoner, and (inset) America's President Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
IN the early part of his walk,
when the author was leav Ing Plymouth, he says:
The miles of England were rolling easily beneath my tread and“ 2 was very proud of my progress.
"One rows that way
when afoot. You strike across coun- No time-tablowaries you, no roads, no transport, and you are bound to no mati-mate schedule. The sträffline"
map of England seems no longer a challenge, terrifyingly long. Already It Is familiar and friendly
try.
The Bristol Channal is bet an obstacle to be rounded by and by.
Wales lien Just be yond. And so, on to the very north, your path la easy and your way your own. You are walking the length and breadth of Britain; you are very.prqud very happy, very carefree... and, like me, you get lost.":
Yes, ho last his way when he left the main road, but soon found it again and eventually, after passing through Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Highlands (where he climbed the Devil's Staircase and Ben Nevis) Theo Lang arrived John O'Great's on August 13, [filled with new experiences
and a
greater love than ever before for his native island, sorry that the journey was ended and happy in the thought that the past five months, had been well spent,
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