Are you a serious drinker?
RE you
enrnest
A drinker? To test your
right to this honour, what are your anawera to these questions ?
1-Does the putting of wilt or cigar ach in beer greatly in- СЕСАКС its potency? In other words, is this the cheap route to
a night's whoopee!
2---Cam unu Keta mystic kick til of mixin drinks?
3.I12 brandy more
thon whisky?
4-Do
potent
drinking: beer
through a straw, especially in
a kneeling parition, enhance Its intoxicating power?
-poke
6. Dots
BRUCE champagne
prevent
BLUNT Ackness?
| 1711-
4.Does gin
make you cry?
1-Do the "fames" of nicohol
in ordinary drinks go to the i
hend?
Colourless?
B.-Are all spirits,
such as
rum, whisky, gin, brandy, etc.,
colourless when distilled?
D-When George Borrow in "Lavenkro"
spoke of
some
ng
mend which he drank "woundily Etrong." WAE he cxaggerating?
10.18 colourless?
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AS YOU LOOK THROUGH THE BOMB-TORN CHURCHILL ARCH
A GLEAM OF
SUN THE
THE
CATCHES
HOUSE
NEW
T is too good for them! That was the first impression
On seeing the new Commons
I
CLARENCE JOHNSTONE
by Leonard Mosley
Yone; of Layton, and
ES. Clarence John-
Johnstone, that variety act (and gramophone best- seller) of the 'thirties,
HILDA SHARP
601 SQUADRON
A
by Paul Richey
PILOT asks: What- ever became of Brian Thynne? Thynne It was who, in 1989, commanded GO1 (County of London) Squadron, whose pilots first took their famous flying sword emblem into battle liabilities were over £40,000 How the pleut plane base at Borkum that many people could against the German sea-
In 1936 there were questions about, Johnstone's high spend- Ing. It was discovered that his
£10 and
were
by Peter Wilson
Mr Johnstone did not agree. up the fastest time-fer a November. He was diving in a five-roomed British-woman-in-the-
at in Maida Vale, and he did Channel swim?
not drink, or dance, or gamble.
He had five cars, he said, in
By 1945 they had shot down more than 300 enemy planes in the Battle of Britain, Malta, he Western Desert, Bicily, and
Twenty-two years ngo da
Italy.
12 years, and the last one' ho Sharp crossed from Cap Gria sold for £100. It was really Nez to Dover in 14 hours 58 "a timple Hfe."
minutes. She was a London giri
Now Thynne is director of a of 10, but she had got a job as finn of printers in the City, He is certainly living a simple a nursemaid-in life today.
Brighton 50 In New York. For that she could have Jacilities If he were back in 601 at this Layton's former partner is out for of show business.
training and
practice.
the
constant moment he would find himself in the middle of an argument Mr Johnstone his friends
which threatens to displice his During the swim she felt squadron catted hirn
from Tandy--felt
the position it very ke giving up, but her brother, has held for 25 humbic about everything that who
years: that of was then serving la d had happened since bla fame in minesweeper,
oldest squadron In the London, "Il-luck and poverty mast when he beard the news,
was painting a Auxiliary Air Force. destroyed my pride and arro slid down, and arrived in time Hance and got me to thinking to cheer her on the Inst Imp. about God."
Today Hilda Sharp in Mrs At 65 he is living in a tiny Hilda Lyons. She lives with flat and working as a mersenger her three children in Batterea. To for a printing firm. He married And the after effects of the wife ofter record? Ash-being named
co-respondent in the violinist's divorce case.
Vardy, with the dignity of around and quarter them again
craftsman, retorted and so chamber completely the old
on. The result is not Vardy's joints never open, the green hope, finished. Some MPs sitting about on
The woodwork of the just ordinary planks with the benches, looking much more suppressed and overwhelmed
chamber will be a monument usual oak grain, but timber to me 500 years hence."* whiskies than normal, were inclined to agree.
Back with beautiful broad graining.. on the floor of the House I told this to 5le Giles. He led
That was expensive too.
stin always left
characteristic
11--Does the flavour of Scotch
Fargely
Ares
dried?
come from
over which the
12.-13
cider
stronger than beer?
the peal It is like an immense tithe
malt is
barn in onk, or the nave of generally chapel, nave being Latin for ship. It might be an
13c brandy always added upturned old heart of onk,
with
to port sherry, and madeira for export?
stout ship's timbers 14.--Do you
have to drink elegantly curving from the ten times the quantity of beer walls to support the boltom,
סמון
up a gongway and opened the get runs in oak 20 feet without Albert Sandler's WILLIAM
BARKLEY
looks around
A long time will pass be-
to brandy in order to reach the which is the ceiling. came level of intoxication?.
Wasting
time
IF your
Ven
fore M.P.s' eyes stop roving
to the inkstands
was first
door leading to the division a knot, Messrs. lobby, which is twice as broad worth,
John
mer-
her
DD
It was Lord Edward Gross venor who Arst thought of forming the Auxiliary Air Force. In his own words, he "zat the doorstep and Boom Trenchard until they of Sammy Hourn
decided to form the Territorial Air Force."
Since Jabez Wolffe,
On August 1, trainer, assisted her out of the And now that marriage is water she has never been able
the Shropshire as it was in the old chamber
chants, would, if necessaTY, and should, therefore be ample for bathchairs, M.P.s
buy + whole wood to secure "bust too." crutches, and even, if need be, just one special tree for this motor ambulances,
Sir Giles Angered the Joints
of the door with a loving "Topch"="""You can hardly, de-
tect them."
job.
For Empire BILLY
MR
Iround on loveliness to con- drawn by me by hand to dowola were enough, so he at VR RICHARD STOKES, the
011
answers to the Arst centrate
their order questions are "Nu"
papers. Speeches should be and to the last seven are "Yer."
much more beautiful antii you are.
according to Oscar A. Merlelsohn, auther the novelty wears off.
Mr
of "THE EARNEST DRINKER" Ship's master architect is (George Allen and Unwin, 10s.) well on the way to be qualifiedSir Giles Gilbert Scott, on As an carnest drinker.
whom genius sits lightly I would, I fear, be partially and who, among other kinds disqualified because I cannot of genius, has the capacity agree with all his Andings. for taking infinite pains.
If the arrwer to No. 2 is in
the negative, I must have been
wasting my time.
no
At No. 4. kneel
would
down and drink
beur
Borrow means.
Subtle...
size." Sir Giles told me.
*.
style, than
I said: "Vardy tok me two
Minister of Works, sald ways uses eight."
at a Press reception in the new I had heard this incredible
gallery premises in his breezy That is the sori of place water-off- duck's back from this is, a story some time ago
tribute to Individual "No one deserves more who britance his brother Adrian,
and personal in the MPs except the Press." had shown me a piece of this legrity, a working place worthy pencil-work when I accom- of is purpose and of immense
prestige voluc to the panied him round Green of Islington, and Vardy's, where the carving and join. ery were done.
tion.
-
the
lo smell or taste a thing.
ROSE
Another man of action just wants come posse...
1025, they dia by appointing "Ned" Gros- venor the first auxiliary com- manding officer and numbering his squadron (01.
But now three other auxiliary squadrons have challenged tolá tong-estabrhizbod Teini-MaTMkho argument is at its height right now.
002 (City of Glasgow) Squadron says that (though it had no C.O.) it had an adjutant before G01 000 (City of London) and 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron say their. adjutants were appointed at 601's had no C.O.a
sold Palsy.
the
NE of the more off- "In a minute," For the first time in history new chamber provides
colourful characters "Under the crebr" seats in the Press gallery
around Broadway Empire and foreign Journalists. these days is Kid Herman, the arch?" I asked.
"What does he mean, under
for:
decision changes the
That 'No profit'
valuc,"
was
The
southwest
Street
same
(although they either).
of their "It's a private joke we got,"
want to do
time
*s
#
And the Air Ministry, cager to make a decision before the King Press gallery from a U.K. pro ex-great of the prize-ring,
presents banners to the Adrian Scott then showed
serve to a worldwide organisa- who runs the news-stand on said the Kid. "When we wife
four squadrons on the occasion me the design for the con- Di
tion.
the
silver jubilees, has corner of kids we lived near the Brooklyn taken the easy way out. It has "PRESTIGE ference table in the Prime
Slr Gilles's phrase. He
42nd In removing
and Times Bridge, and when we many Empire.
adn't decided the appointment of the Minister's room. The table said: "Nobody has fade any American, and other
For in grievances there
our fightin' where adjutant formed the squadron. foreign Square.
the cops could see us, we used So 602 comes out oldest. should result stance, the General Electric a more favourable construction)
kid, according to the lo
Meetcha under Bay,
the of being put
on the old institucord books, lost only once in arch, and then
Sume Go under the
people are asking: 140 professional bouts, What's bridge and settle things fair and When is → squadron not more, he is reputed to have equare.
squadroni? To meet the reporters' needs been as crappy outside the ring the architect
Brinn Thynne would has designed nas in during his black-and-blue dining-room for 80 at a time, period.
When it has no C.D. We looked up where electric approached by bar 41ft. long.
-{London Express Service) Ught streamed through the When you arrive at this bar you
lose ceiling, which is an oblong could have a cup of tea, move likes to think of himself as the first time. The way it hap- centre supported by the
great along for
an ice cream Inter, stick of sugar-coated Gandhi." wali
beams. "Watch" he said and reach the hard liquor at "Me and the world has seen :00 and switched off the lights. night without leaving the room,
much fightin'," he told me the and all the time advancing other might. All I want now is At once the
steadily in a straight line.
peace and a little pinochle."
through a straw unless he was THE unity of this chamber top has inlays of different most out of this. drunk already, so the question,
lis its great feature, woods from each Dominion Company spent thousands does not arice. Nor would the
achieved by many subtle and Colony in the Empire, pounds searching the country tion in these overseas parts. drinker.
tho The positioning for one special class for One is that the 53 in all. Question 9. George was making an understatement foral scrolls in oak at eye and graining of every piece selling. It is rather like cathe-
lucky enough
scale of inlay on the table to level are on
A finer have come nerors the rame sort han those ten or 20 feet, pencilled in on the design
when the glance by Sir Giles's hand. And not fup.
If he was
of mead as 1 have done.
Number
always left
than one
Gin
colourless. More reaches the roof, the scrolls well-known brand is there are bold and sweep-
noticeably tinted,
And about Number
should think you do. buck half a pint
80
that everything falls unnoticeably carved
ing
14....I
I would
of brandy
against Ave pints of beer any day (or night) of the week,
Think!
into perspective,
Dignity
ADRIAN
SCOTT
was
dral glass."
glass turned chamber was
jucularly brown, and the said to Vardy, the head of lighted now by daylight alone
"Your Joints had through the lofty windows.
"Every bit of moulding the Arm: and carving from the roof better not open."
-It may be one of you who goes to the moon
-And you'd go like this!
"I thought, when artificial light is not needed through the day, it wes a pity to have
The cashler la enthroned in an oak boudoir with vases flowers at either side, i is a pleasure to pay marley.
GO
af that
the
Scors
Today, a muscle-bound 56, he
WHILE
the
we were talking, as if the onk effect broken up by a "The M.P.s who have white glass ceiling. IL 18 ce the reporters' dining-room
on cúc, a man rushing for say the subway bumped into thinly remarkable glass which it is far too good for you," said ex-pug. turns brown when the white Sir Giles to me. "They win fight goes out. The Ministry their dining place
had been
"Sorry,
of Works said it could not be knocked down so that they Herman,
done and there it is."
The oak itself ta something
never before seen in England. It was "cut on the cross."
You take a great trunk and
Mister," apologised
"If I'd known you could have had Д acw one" was comin' I'da baked a coke,“ The bomb which fell nine years The man's glare relaxed into and the gallery only. PRO destroyed the chamber a grin.
There are sulles of writing- cut it in quarters from top to rooms, a lounge, and a fine new bottom. You turn these pieces library in the Press gallery.
"
M. S. NUTT conducts his own
Question Time
"Then a few years ago, after with 601: we both set up stands on Times Square, come bad blood comes up between me and Patsy for
one day
two
pens,
I order bundles of papers instead of one and when the truck delivers them they forgot to drop off the regular one for Patay. So ma turally he thinks one of my two bundles is for him, but when he comes over to get it I fell him, it's mine. Well, one word leads to another, so finally 1 say, 'Under the arch,"
"That's fer me. Eays Palsy, so we pile in a cab and drive downtown.
"My mind ain't what it used
to be, but I musta knocked him down half a dozen times before it hits mo how crazy it is for
"I coulda fattened him with a couple of near grandfathers to the Kil, but be beatin' each other's braina a punch," said
So I drop my hands and what would it prove? Ya never out. convince anybody by hittin'
вау,
'I just remembered some-: him. It's better to go along inin', I meant to order 1wo bundles, but forgot to do it, so you was right the whole time. "F'rinstance, take the gink Let me buy ya
a sicak and [who runs the news-rtand across make it up to ya."
the. way-Patsy White, Used to
with people.
.
be a great fighter. Had a string "'Luck ya remembered, Palay of 14 straight knockouts till he said, 'because I was just gettin met up with me.
warmed up. FIL
buy the "I knocked him down 10 beers.'"* timea in ien rounds, but tho
·
•HOW LONG did, th take? Canada. New Zealand cut] The old Housetel Commons, the two despatch boxes which bulit in 1835, was destroyed front-bench sprakere thump first time Patsy heard me tellin' by a German bomb on May to emphasise their points.
10, 1041. On May 10, 1045, work on clearing the
rubble begata.
has cost £1,750,000.
about it he said it was only 14 times. So the next time I tell
it
On October 25 Any novel features? Plenty. it, just to make him feci good, I
A BBIL it was opened by the King. It engineers below the Chamber says, Who
!peritrope chables
it was 14 times, but Patsy Baid
you kiddin'? 10 watch proceedings 换器
13. Was 17 they were looking through the
Well,
SI was about to go. Patsy
White came
SCMP
agrco
Letterheads
REPORTS
Booklets
BALANCE SHEETS
Visiting Cards
across *the*
street and the Kid introduced
"I was just tellin' my friend,"
let's leave it arch and I knock you down IK to him. Okay,
time" this way. Monta the time you.
•How many door? There total position.”*
was lightin' me trom a horizon- three new floors one and two under the Chamber
abovo reached by eight lifts, which travel at 200f a minute.
"You remember wrong," said Patsy. "It was only Ave,"
gam
and all
Commercial Printing.
Prompt Servico.
South China Morning Post
COMP
"I meant five," apologd St. John Ambulance
Herman.
overy time he hears How ble? Its Door is exactly roof. Thirteen microphones will me tellin' it he slices off another the same size as the old house make even the softest-voiced knock-down, so anally I says he said, "how we go under the -GBft. by 45ft. Gins. There are M.P. audible, “ scats for 437 of the 825 MP... **This is the same number
before the bombing.. But strangers (the public), reporters, is bow French The man THIS
in the centre is be worn when one of the crew and officials get 137, more seats, scientists who hope one looking through an observation wanted to go outside the zoo. The grand total is 939,
window at the craiers on the ket-to day to make a trip to the moon. Above him an automatic flight, or to walk about on the during make repairs
"See what I mean?? he mid- imagine the
control comera is taking cinematograph moon's airless surface.
Empire link? Ye How about", security? - For every part of the Empire from secret cabin of their rocket ship pictures."
gone back to i Aden lo Zanzibar hea of special key which controls all Fatsy waved
antalons...” thère la JUST then, as if he knew we after Patsy had
him, his stand. "Next time 1/11 bé him is the captain.
talking about You will notice how .rigid will look.
of furniture. The doors leading to the Chambers street and yelled.
front across
the four. And after, that this, regulating the controls of the oxygen-supplied space-milt
Speaker's chair. comes * from Though using thesama. Kay=
"How's it But what's the dif.? If makek The sketch was planned by afomle motor driving the rucket is. That is so it can withstand Australia; the three clerke holde, it overrides all the 2016 KIG?"
him feel good" and it's no ̈KIN' chief ship.....
the effects of the vacuum chairs from Bouth Africa; the keys, including the space-suit--there it is in space. The
normalCome on over an' get yer off my nose." Berjeant-it-Arms' chair from master. ***
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