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He's Off Again

|HAWANAN ISLANDS

CANADA

U. S A.

SIR EDWIN

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1951.

shows how to have a row in the GRAND MANNER

(with some help from SIR HERBERT)

by

BOOKS

This

of Diamond by young girls. Father is al- traced the board

lowed to do because "gentle- Jim Brady, and Mother,

of great If you

can squeeze another men have problems book on the shelf that begins reriousness and their emotions GEORGE

are extremely powerful." with Fother, with Life

When they are not at school might be the one.

-and they do not seem to be MALCOLM THOMSON.

two things There were only to do with a woman like Mother much at school--Sara and Fell- THE LIFE OF SIR EDWIN and the other one was write a cla ane being taken abroad

to luxurious Auxurious liners The strength

They LUTYENS. By Christo- book about her,

hotels.

ashleve fluent (One of of the matriarchal tradition in French and Felicia achieves pher Hussey,

Jewish families being what it slimmess, through a herol dist four volumes of The is Felicis wrate the book, of grapes. They meet one

Mother once taught a Lutyens Memorial). Coun-

schoul

crook, several gigolos and learn try Life. £26 58.

of large delinquent boys; her the fauts of life.

illude to her family is govern- It is a gay but mighty x-

Two hausting this experience,

Felicia's "There is such things she takes seriously: rell friend Pat says,

thing as having submit to plon and golf. She folks like a

that you nienn man composing a telegram

many "Mink on Weekdays"

amusing. Father un An

of clever She glimpse of a group soys,

manfully struggling does not make people,

with the problem of what do with all that money. in the ame class as Llle With the starter in it is

W

THEN Sir Edwin Lutyens brought his ald friend, Sir Her-

ed by

so

life,

As

bert Baker, into partnership and rules her household with a wind up unde affords

over

the designing of

centre of government at New Delhi, he set the stage for a quarrel over something very simple: the steepness of a street.

bliek of iron,

juzt plain

sense, but

kind

ut ic Father,

Anm-

* me race. boyant sense.

But Father is

spired

#s

EGYPT

SAUDI. ARABIA

.. Round the World

PAKISTAN

ERSIA

INDIA

ISLAM

INDO-CHINA

GUAM

BASIL

CARDEW

"The car should do the trip in

LONDON.

N Friday, June 1, I am

Osetting out to report

30 days,' says Cardew

·MANY BRITISH JOKES MAKE FUN OVERSEAS

IF the head waiter at a London hotel sees on enormous-Ink blabon oño of his table-cloths the chances aro that "the Australlon in No 6" is to blame.

And if he hears the crash of breaking crockery behind him as he bends to mop up the ink It will probably be the same guest, airing his sense of hu-

mour,

To satisfy that sense of hu- mour, practical joke mana- facturers in Britain are work- ing oventure turning out rub- the most fascinating news the world-had driven 10,000 two in the car driving and to Mansion, Kent (where ber-tipped ponells, exploding theatre tickets, non-lathering story of a motor-car that has miles In 10,000 minutes in an navigating, and two resting in special R.A.F. permission had to be granted) for night to car, and the two were the plane above.

match- stop, disintegrating come my way this year. I Austin

in Mr Lord's Longbridge, The team captain chose Paris,

And if all goes well, within a boxes, and many other "gags." from the 20,000 factory start Birmingham, office.. expect to be away a month,

month it will be on the and to travel nearly 80,000

two of their

racing best

Production is being stepped Prestwick in Ayrshire from mechanics, These

France specding through the night to up in preparation for the BIF, miles.

nurses, experienced in

Airport, Staines. Awhich begins on Monday. wiry London America, will be and

Appleby and

aglie complete globe circle. Raleigh Joseph Galvin,

It will be a bid by four of Britain's toughest road drivers to motor round the world in 30 days in the new A40 sports car.

Thoy

will take the eastern. route to America by way of the Middle East, India, and Honolulu, Over the oceans the team and the car will travel by plane.

If things go to plan they will arrive in Montreal, fly back to Scotland, and motor down to their starting point at London Airport. Inconsequential

Austins are not only supply- Ing the small sports car and the four drivers. They are charter- ing from K.L.M. Airlines a specially adapted four-engined Skymaster

03 flying lender.

NON-STOP RACE

This round-the-world effort is aimed to prove to the world what an expertly driven British can do when raced non- stop round that world,

to

Not

But this steepness cccurred the professional way leading to Lutyens's Viceroy's House,

a hearty mun, • Int Cork on the Water masterpiece, and the incline was ro sharp that nothing could tie

He thinks that (Michael Joseph, 9s, ed.). Mac- sandwiches n being Jewish donald Hastings seen of the house, at a critical

ነ።

much thriller between a fine opening point, but a pimple in the mid-

FELICIA LAMPORT fun as a good account of salmon fishing and a ifle of the rond. The purple be

The sand- very irritating to Sir Ed. rame

If the blessing over the fine closing ditto, win, perhaps because he had

wine (applying retrospectively wich suffers from the prevail. to blame, to the highballs) is meant to be ing meat shortage. The struggle nobody but himself

Baker had been assigned the sung, then by heavens, he will for. John Buchan's throne can

be reckoned still undeclded. task of designing twin secre sing it. No mumbling like cer-

glossy,

• Very

accomplished turials

of lain wenk-kneed Jews of his ve both sides

novel for

leisure of not- Viceroy's House and somewhat bequaintance!

renders is la font of it,

Ite

money, too-unsophisticated likes making

Hamilton Basso's The Green- Obviously,

enjoys spending it

cn

CITORS.

buildings Mother these mist share the high ground ca There you have the foundations room (Museum Press, 19, 0.).

and Mauriac

Central figure is Mrs Leslie which the house would stand, of a happy home. When

she Porter,

rich woman novelist. Obviously, the house, which gives a chop suey party. she

not so gracious as at first she had a beautiful dome in the buys 200 Chinese costumes for seems. middle, must be pushed back her guests. When she entertains Pro

• Property, priests, vice from the crest, And obviously it

few friends on the beach religionFrancols would be a thoroughly bad Iden Long Island, 100 turn up. Mother

works all the old ingredients if a gradual upward slope to

now volume of his the house caused a deep trench cooks for them on a specially into the

two-at-a-time edition, That Which Was Lost and The Dark

angels

to be duty secretariats,

between the two

All this did not prevent Lul- yens from raising shrill out-eries

made electric cooker that deals with 52 frankfurters at a tine.

Any spare time this remark- able character hus, she devotes to the education of her

Angels (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 10s 6.). All Maurine's two are dark.

when he realised, too late, and Fèlick (dat), She is deter- subject that has provoked an how young daughters, Sara (pretty) A good deal of sense on a

his beautiful dome was hidden, Baker could

CAT

to

act

I shall fly above the car to record its desert, jungle, and sea crossing adventures.

The audacious plan sprang from a half-crown wager made by Mr Leonard Lord, Chairman of Austins, with bold but tough Alan Hess, his 51-year-old public relations officer.

It was shortly after Hess who holds 105 motoring records *****more than anyone else in

on

.

spanner-

They will fly along with me In the plane piloted by K.LM.' top pilot-Cablain J. J. Bak,

cor.

JUNE HEAT

HALF CROWN BET Lord said he had been struck with an idea white driving to his once that morning the round-the-world bid. "'ll bet

there is you

something

you can't do," he said.

"What is that?" asked Hess. Lord repiled: "I bet you

Hess decided that the car and be half

a dollar you can't drive the mother plane should

able to talk together. Arrang- Hess accepted.

was round the world in 30 days."

The ear he ing this

his perhaps chose is the first open-bodied hardest lask. A special short- model the famous A40 wave set had to be fitted in the chassis.

As his team he chose:- Ex-Squadron Leader Ralph Sleigh, 39, who, in on Austin,

Then he had to get radio made the fastest-over run from operating

cach permits-from Britain to the Cape. Sleigh is of the 16 territories the car a paint man, is married, has a will pass through England, child, Ilves near Ipswich;

Italy, France, Switzerland, Tester

Ronald Lebanon, mechanio Jeavons, 32, Hess and two others the feat of Island. Hawail, USA., Canada cramming 10,000 miles Into (including Newfoundland). 10,000 minutes in a saloon A10.

The Total route Involves Jeavans is a bachelor, served travelling a daily average of

which miles, of seven years in the RAF, lives 1,000 in Birmingham:

third will be overland and two- Car-tester George. Coates, 48, thirds be ocean crossing. who, with Alan at Indianapolis, Across the Syrian and Arizona averaged 70.54 miles an hour deserts the car will travel in for seven days and nights in the full blast of June heat, so an A90. Conten

will be fitted with a white prepared it vehicles for D-Day under the hood to throw off the Americans. He is a family man rays, In India the drivers ex-

chikiren), (three

ilves at pect to meet the monsoons.

The start: Rubery, near Birmingham. So

11 6.m. from not one of them on age is a London Airport оп Friday. chicken.

June 1. The car will nose its The team will work in pairs, way

down through Kingston

Party Of

Syria, Jordan, Iraq,

who shared with India, Slam, Guam, Wake

Of Schoolboys May

Go To Russia

By Bus

Leicester. to get permission from the Ger

one.

sun's

The bus which would be used

MR C. Anson Smith, head- ment through their

it is an old Leicester Cor- ties to go through their territories, poration bus which has been re- master of Rushey Mead we shall also, of course, have to novated and bears the name the permission of our Spirit of Leicester, and illustra- Boys' School, Leicester, who have

tions of the city's industries, took a party of his school- Foreign Office.

"I think it would be a good

Last year the chief driver was in several ways, if a party the father of one of the boys, decker-bus-last-summer-is-af boys" planning a similar trip in qannot possibly do any harm. passenger coach driver. Mr An- "I think it would be a very on Smith hopes that Mr Page August to Moscow.

nice gesture on the part of the will be able to drive them again Russian authorities if this could this year. be_arranged."

Was boys to Spain by double- thing. could go to Russia, It Mr Page, who is a long-distance

point to mined they shall learI most inordinate amount of rubbish which Lutyens modern language and enter the will be found in Anthony West's a document in had agreed to the steep

diplomatic service up-

(if they do D. H. Lawrence (coming from proach. Lutyens protested that not become opera singers) and Artur Barker at 0s.). he had not known_what_he_was_for_this_reason engages a series Lawrence a hysteric with an

igning: besides, Baker had sent of foreign governesses.

Mede-

eye to the main chance? This London giving an

mótselle is the on a sketch to

who stays book will help you to make up entirely wrong idea of how longest.

your mind. She is thin, genteel and op-

(World Cappright Reserved-London things were going to look,

pased to the use of "dama" Express Service,)

Lutyens was hurt, cruel and wilty. In the Indian climate it is easy to launch unkind epi- grams, but only elephants have thick skins. He fell he had heen double-crossed and found! that he did not think much of Baker as an architect, elther,

This grand

inter- row was

woven with minor rows:

ROW with a Viceroy who wanted the bulldings to have horse

shoc arches, 'morc "oriental." Lutyens. wanting round arches, asked, "Who de- signed the rainbows and won. ROW with cheese - paring Government whose cconomics resulted in the Vleereine having to mount 45 slops and traverse 300 feet of corridor to reach hier bedroom,

ROW with one Vicercine which ended only with Lutyens's apology: "I will wash your fact

with "my tears

with my hair.

very litle very little

fcot,

ROW with

who wanted

and dry

them

It is true I have

but you have

a later Vicereine everything de- Curated in mauve, "This chould he called Bedtampore," declared Lutyens,

The mala clash, with Baker, was a clash of temberarents. Baker was practical, always willing to compromise so as to get on with the job. Lutyens sold: "A few months won't mat- der in 60 years' time."

He went off to Buckingham Palace to win over King George

· V, He did—but the Government

of India would not budge from the Baker standpoint. Lutyens had met, as he said, his Baker 100.

Tho stary has a happy ending. Years after, when Lutyens was proposed as president of the Royal Academy, Baker voted for him,

?

FELICIA wrote

1

MINK ON WEEKDAYS. By Felicia ́Lamport, Gollancz, 10. 300 pages.

this book Bo that you and I might know what it feels like 'to'Ïlve in a rich, eccentric Jewish family on Fifth Avenue, with a lot of gold plate formerly the property of silver dishes that had

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

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Here's a nice print to enlarge, particularly if trimmed along the dotted lines so that the heart of the picture is blown up. -CROPPING-YOUR-PRINTS

the

QEVERAL weeks ago we show the print to form a hollow ed two pictures of the same square or rotangle. Then shiti scene, cropped somewhat dlf them around until you get ex- ferently. One, as we' pointed actly the ploture you want in- out, made a better composillon side the area which they, em- than the other. All because of brace.

cropping. But cropping Trim your pleture" according-. picture

can do more than merely ly. Use the trimmed print as a improve composition.

guide in making enlargements Suppone, for example, you use or having them made. Instead box camera and make a fine of blowing up the whole picture picture of a child. Chances are you blow up the heart of it, and the picture was taken from eight improve your shot in the pre- or more feet away from your cess.

subject. The child-the point

of Interest in the picture.

Remember, cropping offers a

doesn't come close to Alling the way to better most prints you will make. Even the best pro- picture area of the print,

fessionals use it and use it fro So, if you with a good cn=

For while good ple- quently, largement, you'll try cropping turos always begin in lining A 01 J012 picture up in. your viævinder, the mean trimming away often is necessary to trollive know," means the superfluous part of a print in: more of u acene in your negative. order to improve it appear then you will. alther want or ance. The beat way to do is is need in the nnished print, to take, tivo L-shaped pieces, of

cardboard and place them in kajaku van Guilder

"It

"I am hoping to get things moving soon," he told me. will be a much more difficult task than going to Spain. Per haps it will come off, and per- haps it will not.

"The running of the vehicle will present few difficulties, as there are no mountains to nego- tiate, such as we bad when we went to Spain.

"Our biggest difficulty will be

TO LEARN

SECRETS

THIRTY-FIVE young British men and women will go to the United States this kutuma 10 study American Industrial

"know-how."

During a year's stay they wi study at universities and tech- n'cal institutes, and gain prac- tical

American experience in

factories.

The 35

mulat hold good benours degrees in either pure science or technology, and have two years' experience in British industry.

Mr John Booth, of the Ameri can Economic Co-cperation Ad- ministration, said: "This is all -part-of-scheme for the ̄0%-- change of ideas between British and American industrial techni- clons".

+

The proposed tour, would last The distance from Leicester five weeks. Average age of the to Mostow, by read and sea, is boys is 14.

approximately 1,700 miles.

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT.....

YOU WERE RIDING A

ZBBRA IN THE DERBY BUT WERE WORRIED BECAUSE YOU WERE UNSUITABLY PRESSED-

-THIS DREAM

Parabás

MEANS:

This is another oxhibitionistic dream which indicates that, during the previous day, In an attempt to show off your personality and exhibit ! your prowess, you over-reachad yourself and ware made to fool silly. This feeling of being shown up in public still rankles.

In the effort to compete with others, La., in "the raco-you-find-yourself on a.conspicuous.but ́ ́ Inappropriate mount and in an appropriate garb. In the midst of your folly you wear conventional

JOHNNY HAZARD 17

STOP TRDER?

PURSA SMATCHER/

WHOA, BOYZ YE RETURN "TLUG TO THE RIGHTER, OMNESZ/

THINK THIS BELONGS TO YOU,

MAWAZ

Busil (unden

London Express Sarvion

road

customer at Biggest overseas the moment is Australia, with America second.

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АСТОЯВ

3 Protuberanos (4).

7 Rear (5).

& Employs (4).

& Furnace (4),

10 Noted (7).

12 Journey (4), 15 Desiccated (5). 18 Fuel (4. 10 Stir

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23 Call forth (5). 26 Facts (4).

29 Turned away (7). 30 Vestment (4).. .31.Flog(4).

32 Renown (5). 33 Ckculate (4).

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DOWN

2 Wander about (7).

4 Join (5).

6 Boat (4),

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Measure (4).

9 Consolidate (4).

11 Expunge (5).

13 Defent

webat (4). 14 Eager (4). 10 Male bird (5).

Prased (4).

18 Quantity of liquid (4),

20 Burdensome (7).

22 Small bay (4).

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25.Lure.(5).

27 Nomad (4),

28 Continuous pain (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Timber, 7 Oral,

9 Trace, 10 Split, 11 Aver, 13 Intimidate, 16 Item, 10 Tome, 19 Intercedes, 22 Ront, 24 Poise. 25 Wrong, 20 Sert, 27 Turzena, Down; 2 Inapt, 3 Bream, 4 Reside 5 Volatile, 8 Hate, 8 Rivet. 12 Romps, 13 Inter, 14 Identify, 17 Minor, 18 Decent, 20 Cower, 21 Drove, 23 Apex.

AND THAT YOU WERE PICNICKING IN A BUSY STREET WITH A COW

garb and cling grimly to your hat; the last remnant of respectability.

"Picnicking in the street with a cow may indicate that you have beon flaunting a rather stupid companion in an effort to enhance your prestige: but her stupidity is unfortunately too too obvious. This is a very tentative interpreta- tion which would have to be checked spas every interpretation must be--by further discus- sion with the dreamer.

-It-all-suggests that-it-might-be-wlie-to-crawl- modestly ́into your shell for a day or two until your confidence returns.

By Frank Robbins -

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