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A British Crossword Puzzle

́THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1950.

A NEW CHINA MAIL SATURDAY FEATURE

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED 'THAY

YOU WERE FLYING

OVER THE ROOFTOPS-

AND THAT YOU

WERE FALLING

DEEP WTO

THE BOWELSE

OF THE

EARTH?

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20

23

24

28

19

2 Colle

DOWN

1 Dance

ACROSS

4 Turning-point

A Vegetable

10 Daub

12 Bowman

14 Theatre attendant

17 Wiles

19 Vaults

20 Warded T

22 Send out

Estimated

3 Assumed name

5 Hurry

6 Mountain range

7 Acernt

Go before

11 Indian corn

13 Believes

15 Wander

23 Instruct

27 Explinge

28 Rico

30 Greet ceremoniously

AL Side

Tooth

FRIDAY'S

16 Grouped

18 Equine gait

20 populace

21 Conundrum

24 Kingdom

25 Unfeeling

20 Perpendicular

28. Stringed Instrument

CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Premises, B Ruin, vocate, 11 Engineer, 13 Serf, 15 Reprisal, 18 Celltate, 19 Byre, Mediator, 25 Explored. 26 Limb, 27 Dilutingt. Down: rực, 2 King, 4 Rude, 5 Moor, 0 Suave, 7 Sheaf, 9 Antic, 10 enn), 12 Needy. 14 Ratlo, 16 Sever, 17 Livid, 10 Blend, 20

pel, 21 Moat, 23 Dean. 23 Trim, 24 Ruby.

BOLSTERING THE

HEART

-THIS

DREAM MEANS:

"Flying through the air with the greatest of caso" is usually a childish dream of satin- Horo it is an ambition droam in which faction, you are contemplating a course of action which is going to load to big thingsporhaps.

There is in the dream, however—symbo- . Ihed by the fall into the earth's bowels-a

Laicrence Kari

Gloria

and the sailors

save the day

Into

conflict betwoon this ambition which you focl to be childish and the fooling that you may havo bitten off more than you can chow; a fooling that you may come to grief,

The moral of this droom—if any-is that you must realiso that it is time to grow up and be your age.

Caution is indicated,

Book of the Month

by 筋

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON

munist battery positions. Tibe- Britain 1944 as war correrpon- tan shows, melting at the right dent, toured Europe as free lance time, support Gloria. Amethyst's with wife (Janc Armstrong, cable, well muffed by oiled now London editor of Toronto slicets is slipped.

Telegram), returned to Canada for a year in 1947: now back in London.

or killed

tragedy--64 wounded (including captain and doctor) out of 183 aboard. The ugly moment is brought back into focus; no attempt to mitigate or dwell on the grimness. Grim? For instance, the morphia rAM out and a Chinese pilot, dread fully wounded, tried to choke himself with his own tongue.

Ahead les 150 miles of snaky river its banks studded with artillery and searchlights, barred at one point by a boom, a row of heavy

guns guarding its mouth, Tricky navigation at the best of times. Given the con- ditions in which Amethyst must travel, something like a night mare.

A RAGE TO LIVE. By John O'Hara. Crosset Press. 15s, 590 pages.

TN

The women

the town of Fort Penn Pa.. the men think mostly about business.

When they can Olympian brows from the adding In the engine-room the ther- machines, they think mostly YANGTSE INCIDENT. By TRIGGER-HAPPY

mometer close to the voice pipe about women, Lawrence Earl. Harray. From the smoke and confusion shows 170. On the bridge the haven't any business to think 10s. 6d. 199 pages.

personalities emerge; phlegmatic captain, expecting to find the about. AWRENCE EARL, 20- highly individual response to tween which he can steer sees round about World War I, A

boom marked by two lights be- puzzled British, Chinese with a

As a sexual map of Fat Penn ing to work with no danger: a Chinese mess-boy that there is only one light. To Rage to Live has the virtue of waste of words, no cheerfully swims ashore to port or starboard? He guesses thoroughness. As a novel, it has over-statement of emotions, parley with

port. He is right! trigger-happy

the vice of thoroughness.

s creates a spare, lucid and troope gripping account of a

A new chemical substa nce has been found effective notable exploit of escape. bolstering a failing hea rt in the aged.

The substance,'ns reported by Paul Kaufman and Harvey llakoff of New York, is a gitulin preparation known as natoside C. It is administered

the vein.

The doctors tried the sub- on 14 patients at the oldwater Memorial Hospital.

ince

due course,

k

Under a new captain, Kerans (now DSO), Amethyst settles down, fo drag out months of He tells how HMS Amethyst, waiting: food runs short; fuel oil a frigate, fell into Chinese Com- dwindles until it is doubtful if a study on treatment of older munist power in the Yangise the refrigerators can be kept in persons suffering heart disease. river and how, in

commission; the NAAFI canteen The patients treated, according she escaped and rejoined the in a good cause, gives up strict to the doctors, were suffering Fleet. His narrative shows what accounting to the tune of £100 from various forms of congestive en

be done, by painstaking miralty.

Jater duly approved by the Ad heart disease, including hyper-assembly of facts and resolute tension and hardening of the avoidance of fine writing, to re- warning than the first rain of

Then

with scarcely arteries.

as well as new the life

the image Their report, with suggestions of events.

shells comes the dash for free on treatment, also was based on The

was of dom. A nicely judged enterprise concern in the summer

Kerans concludes that the Com- munista pretending to negotiate are simply waiting until it suits their

convenience

seize Amethyst.

CAPTAIN'S GUESS Gloria is helpful She is a 130 named by the

w York, and obtained. good the analysis of post mortem public ethyst affair

the

ults in 12 persons, Reporting in modicat armal, Geriatrics, the doctors id the intravenous administra- a of the substance was "safe, fective and simple to adminis-

records of 200 patients on whom autopsies were performed. While only 59 percent of the patients were known to be suffering from heart

disease,

the autopsies showed that actually 75 percent of the 200 were victims of heart

The drug was given in allments.

than

be

to

more

The Communist guns open up, wildly, on one another. A junk, sailing darkened, is sighted 50 yards dead ahead, Amethyst culs her neatly in two. In the engine room they look wonderingly at one another. They do so once more when a shell hits the water near the ship and all but turn her over on her side.

At last they are out, past the Lig, sleeping Chinese guns at the has been steering, and taking river-mouth. Sayo Frank who benzedrine, since they started, "I've been in the Navy for 24 years but I never felt like this before!"

It is a moment. "They were out" is all Earl says about it. Come to think of it could there be a more eloquent finish? A proud book.

months of 1940. Yangtse In- cident, telling far. mare about the business known at the time, becomes in

could November 1050

а Book of the Month of some public moment.

Sudden bombardment in the typhoon farrow river plunged Amethyst Americans) that floods Com- New Brunswick 1915, came

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"LOOK, DARLING!

ALL THE LOVELY NEW THINGS I JUST BOUGHT....WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE FUR COAT !^

*LAWRENCE EARL, born

10

It very long, patchlly dull, awfully life-like. And, my, can't life be copious! Can't it be irre- levant! O'Hara is one of those distrustful novelists who will his readers' leave nothing to imaginations. Practically nothing. Yet, when there is something we really need to know-such 29 the truth about Graco Tate- how evasive he ist Grace, social- y on the top rung at Fort Penn

still of making love with other fond of her husband, fonder men. But is she interesting, or tiresome, plain vicious or poor victim-of-circumstanes? Is there, anything to Grace, apart from badly managed appetites?

I would willingly trade one of those passages about the busl- ness men's bordello to know the answer.

(World Copyright Reserved--London Express Service),

BU

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