Wrestling Is Fentured On Turkish Stamps Foun stamps just issued by Turkey feature wrestling.
Wrestling is a national sport with the Turks. It is laught in school and they like it as much as Britons like football. Chiamplons give exhibitions all over the country-even at villago concerts.
TURKIYE POSTALARI
20
This alamp altows how to. throw an opponent by planing back his left Ing with your ́right arm and using your left arm and right knew to topple him,
Perforation: 11% by 114: Face value: 20 kurus (about 4d.).
The stamp was designed to mark the European wrestling championship
in Istanbul and fewer than one million in all were issued. They could become valuable...),
-{London Express Servico)
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949,
The Love Story of Dickens
and the Actress
DICKENS Hesketh Pear-
son. (Methuen, 181.)
NEW BOOKS
by
MARGARET LANE
SHAW. By C. E. M. Joad. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) 240
pp.
tho
were
T first glance one won- -ders, perhaps unjustly,
MR JOAD belongs to the
generation why Mr Hesketh Pear-
which, in last years before 1814, chosen son
should have
emancipated from Edwardiion Dickens. Mr Pearson is a
How can he bear to annoy the conventional thought by the professional blographer, and serious ones (which are what writings of George Bernard obliged regularly to every blographer desires) by Shaw. Shaw is now a venerable change his ground, whether to give a single reference figure, and though it has become for the hundreds of letters and fashionable not to take him he likes it or not. His most conversations that be quotes? seriously, politically or other successful subject, Bernard Shaw, apparently, suggested this one:
"As you have done Shakespeare and Shaw, are you not bound to do Dickens?"
So Mr Pearson decided to "do" Dickens, apparently as a tobacconist might open a shop ni Bronstairs because he already har pe at Walmer and another at Deni; and an pleks up the book with the faintest possible ngh, sluce more passion should go to a biography than that,
How can he be so slipshod In his cholee of words as to speak of Macaulay's "unerring in- nemirney"?
Why does he let a jealous hatred of John Forster, Dickens's lifelong friend nhu first bio- grapher, run away with him?
Forster had his resome side, but Dickens would never have endured him for five minutes if he had been the monster of humourlem pomposity that Mr Pearson tries to make him; and le destroys his quoting Mrs Carlyle's irresistible
ccount of Forster of ope the wonderful hilarious Dickens parties:
own
cose by
The choice seems at first, too, the more curious because Dame Hoa Pope-itennemy's recent bio- brer Comedy In The Can
Krophy (all only four years oflein)
NICE:
An unbelievable Fold) made full use of the pre- "After supper when we were present comedy of prison fe has been viously suppressed letters, and all madder than ever with the revealed In Marseilles, where no new material has since come pulling of crackers, the drink- Iwo Jimates serving long terms to light Mr Hesketh Pearson. big of champagne, and the mak ut Leg Baenettes
prison have
An indeed, does not claim to have to of speeches, a been keeping the books, buying found any fresh matter
universal what country dance was proposed - the food, signing prisoners out
and Forster setting me round and generally running
things. of the Middle Ages a Neapolt-
the teater, whirled me into the Twu prizoners were
seconded 1ac husband, Ugo Montori, 32, for this work, by the
and
made ine
daner thick of it, KaverBar hue for twa years compelled heenase, as he explated, they
Once I cried out, Oh for the love of heaven let me go
You were "ao >mart at Agures
tare going to death my brains out were so trustworthy, time They
against the folding doorst which he nswered -(you enna fancy his tone)-'Your brains! Who
brains lat 18091 here" Let them guth
his wife, ima Antick, to wear chastity beli every time
3.
wen!
fawny
trips. But one day nomced this
he soil to do is to lay stress
where It has nol sufficiently been inki before to recreate for Dickens's quite unique and ex- un, to bring back to Bife
Umordinary character
Ou business soul, that he allowed them to
to thin, in spite of one's pre- des sleep out every night. What he munary sighing, and of a manu
lld it K
was that
they ber of sewall quarrels and trri- wele equally Amart at forging ilies on the way he really
Rina practice to thin waiting for Monuert's return to charge
police The police are
hum with cruelty.
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Basic "Out" WASHINGTON: Albert Wix- Kam, psychologist. Lays that high-sounding words are neces sary now beenuse people
Old School Tie
NEW YORK: OM school ties popular with New Yorkers be- enuse of their colour combina- floris, mity nuw be worn with- bul the danger of challenge from an outraged Elonian or Gurls fleer A haberdashery
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colours of 33 Amertesti burst clubs They are wirthentic, zatd the bater casters, btly as many 285 y
not impressed with simple unes It is useless, he thinks, to tell
n nation that it is not
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enough to pay its balls How it
Supered
He has takes great guaina te build up Dickens's dazzling an! dynande personality, the quali then that made hima briliant brun companion, a difeult man 16 live with, a veuseless fruntains comediazi of
energy. A enchanting qually do private life and my actor alinest no the level of genius
He makes one feel the start ling ardour of Dickens, hia bola- lerits fichness and prodigality of character.
way that scholarly and "distin- guished" blography (the Pope- Hennessy one, for instance) dia- mapointingly falls to do
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But why, havtnut wehlevec ses much, has he littered his work with bones for his readers
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Mr Pearson deals at length and, I should judge, with sideraties understandinut. WHIL The emotionat frustration apel morbind unhappiness of Dickens a lust vents, when his love for the 18-year-old actress Ellen Ternan precipitated his separation from bus wife, after 20 years of mar-
the Flake and
birth Huldren.
He refers Can I believe ame Doue Pope-Bennessy does not) Jos se fart that Ellen Testuan had a child by Dickens, but does
what became of this Sut MAY mysterious and Interesting son. Miss Teman eventually
mar- ried a clergyman, and 1 have been told thol her sun by Dle- kens grew up to be a Unitarian Haster: but do not know It is ine, aud Mi Pention
tera no tfit sa tion <<1 sul-jeel.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
TWO
GIRLS
AND
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BOY./*
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THOSE SEEM RATHER,
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the
LIBRARY LIST
TITUS GATES. Jana Lane (Andrew Dakera, ata.).,354 pp. A king, painstaking, arul at times absorbing blography of one of th mastiest Tascate in history.
THE DOCTOR WEARS TIMER FACES. Mary Bard champion, 10m. A.). 34 pp. Miss Barch is sister of Thai Betty MacDonals wh wreta two humorous best-sellers about keeping chickeris and havin
torreufoals. This Intuk ta mboul being
ton doctor. Appar ently that's a betesm too.
TEA WITH MR. BOCHESTER Frances Towers (Michael Joseph, 78, 60, 207 pp. Short stories with a feminine and peculiar favour. quiet and rewarding,
London Espress Serifos.
cursions into the demimonde as wine, he remains one of the soon as the hero censes to be an great original genres of our undergraduate ("My god, how age, the thinker who more than gloriously
you wallz," he any other has moulded the whisperedi), conspire to make ideala and beliefs of the last two one perpetually consioun that generations,
the book is very heavy to hald.
1 mm afraid this is n bad sign.
West Hartlepool in 1883, has been 'COMPTON MACKENZIE, born in eriting novels, poems and pinus for nearly 50 years. Its versatility ex- tended to a small pars in the im of his noret Whisky Galore, and he te amused to think that his "seYOOTS zarre beyan when ha big 60. Dur Ing the war de veau captain of the Home Guard on the Hebridean and of Darra e recriations are vale and the gramophone,
It would be interesting, then, and useful
to have a fort at handbook
of Show's opinions and beliefs, his moral and poll- tical conclusions and his philo- sophy; and if Mr Joad had con- fined himself to his analysis of these it would have been valuable study.
Unfortunately, he bas feli obliged to sugar what he mis- great deal of self-contemplation takenly regards as a pill with a
and personal anecilote.
He is more interested in re- blances between himself and Show than the render is likely
to be: and the personality which so persistently crowds Shaw of the page Is (as I am sure Mr Jund is not in life) disagreeable and conceited,
"C E. M. JOAD, born to 1801, I rcader in philosophy at the Istversity of London Well Knatın
a broadcaster and
was one of the most popular members of the tin Trust About his present back, Jonel op have admired revered Shaw all my life, and
than everybody wine put together.
ntu
he has done more in form my life
SINISTER STREET. By Mackenzie. Compton (Macdonald, 10s. 6d.) 880 pages.
is now 30 years since the publication of Sinister Street, best-æller of the last war buf one, now republished in a single under 1.000 volume of just pages. Reading it for the first Bine it is difficult to understand! เร sensation that It 11- doubtedly macie.
-={London Express Service)
News In The Air:
MUSIC LOVER
DAB and FLOUNDER
-by Walter
AN IRON GATE FOR DICKSI To stop damage
SPECIAL
Carrier Planes
DESTRUCTIVE DICKSI
MR* Jim
Turner, 30-year-old London Zoo blacksmith, is making a large Iron gate for the stable of Dickst, the cle- phant,
The gale, 12ft. high, is of the sliding type, and la being riveted with study steel plates.
hns become NECESSITY beenure of Dicks's desimic- tiveness," said a Zoo official,
"Sho has pulled slates from the roof, weakened 10 upright stanchions in front of her stall and wrenched down a
gutter-
Ing."
-¿London Express Scrutco)
May Land
On Cushion Deck
TAVAL nir experts are Lieut.-commander Eric Melrose
N
be watered they must with a hose,
working on the results Brown, of Farnham, Surrey, A
experimental landing by A no-under- rier,
of an
carriage aircraft on a new- type flight deck.
who, in 1948, was the first man to land a jet aircraft on a car
was
П
dnity
boa Just
HELICOPTER flown from England to the Bristol Sul inside freighter neroplane. The hell- copter is to be used to spray Brown's feat
100,000 acres revealed
of pest-threaten- when he was awarded the Boyd rd cotton. From the experiment may ment of the year in naval avin- Truphy for the best achieve- come the "cushioned" flight- tion. deck
on which high- performance fightern land.
cun
First Bexible deck was built on land at the Royal Airerult Establishment at Farnborough, fants.
Question was:
He brought n modified Vam- pire jet fighter safely on to the flexible deck of the Warrior.
ANIMALS
Could alrerafi on skia make a successful land- sur- ing un clinging rubber Ince? A weighted gilder aug- gested they coulit
"
Even on a period piece is heavy going the long, long, fexible night-deck boredoms of Its Oxford after-into the noons, with their Billy Bunter wit ("My God. Wedders, you are
But the real test came when o was bulli aircraft-carrier War-
rior.
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often being carried in British Overseas Airways freighters
the
Corporation have issued a booklet to their staff comfortable and humane conditions of transport.
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ensure
The booklet points out, for example, that birits must be stowed facing the light, as they will not eat in the dark. On voyages of up to six days, cro- 28-year-old rules do not need food, but
a prize as" chuckled the Man chosen for the hazardous offender). the equally long ex- experiment
Wat
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N American report says that text pilot Roland P. ("Bob") Beamon! was probably the first Englishman to By faster than sound.
This suggests that Beamont did it while Nyink a North Amerlean F.80 fighter in Call- fortia several months before John Derry exceeded the speed
of sound in the De Havilland :08 in a dive over the Windsor area a year ago,
Beamont is chief test pilot of the English Electric Com~ pany and has done all the test flyink In the Canberra, Brl.. tain's first Jet-bomber. He was Eghter pilot during the war.
-(London Express Service)
"More Wrong Numbers"
BY KEMP STARRETT,
THE HORSE
THAT SHOULD HAVE RUN FIRST... AND ISN'T
IN
YET.
AND THATS REALLY THE WRONG NUMBER.
"GIXT' FLOORS YA
WANT THE TROID... WIVIN'T YA SAY SO
A WRONG NUMBER THAT'S GO-
ING TO MAKE LIFE, FOR SOMEONE, AS GAYAS A TWO- BUCK PARTY AT THE RITZ.
ARE YOU SURE THIS ICHT YOUR HATS SAYS SHE BRINGING OUT ONE HE. WOULDN'T BE FOUND DEAD UNIDIR.
MELTING THE WIFE
AT ONE-THIRIY.
ANOTHER LAD WHO PICKED
THE WRONG'WABBR.
FORMATION
AY WIFE LOOKED
IT UP
*NO, TRAIN N915 RUIC ON SATURDAYS ONLY. THIS IS ONLY. WEDNESDAYA
FOR ME?"
YOU HAVE THE WRONG
Clare. Your
TICKETS ARE
FOR ROWZ;
THIS IS DOW C9
10.30.