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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1951.

Daredevils' World

THE BIG SHOW. By Pierre Clostermann. Chatto and Windus. 128, pages.

6d. 256

ET nobody underrate the feat accomplished in the brilliant record of one Frenchman's fight

-Ing life with the RAF.

THE FIGHTER PILOT TALKS

OF 'THE 'Men we kilLED'

Etrain on the resources writing.

of the Farts to come back from bombing the Schweinfurt balle hearing works, Space bringa forth SWATIS of Germon

Lightnings

43 fighters.

hurry

with home Mustangs empty magazines, dodging in and out of the clouds,

All

own and Sparrative, his

Clostermann may not

the majesty of St. and Exupery, that mudal to writers on the air. His style is 1114

With Here is air warfare— lik swift, dlangy

to dive on a phrase. three dimensional, confused, capacity

some glisteni were incredibly fast and fused it

enemy neroplane sighted in re with the desperate shy, his sensitivity, to the feel émotions of the pilots In 45 well as the scene, he brought to the

eye and soars to the chairhorne Painting,

+

nerves

of the

render with

rarely equalled,

vividness

wht

At last the Fortresses appear, a forlorn and tragle sight. formations have been

Ther

to abreds by avalanches

forn of Junkers und Messerschmilts. Scattered all over the sky, they try vainly to bunch, heights of

Spitfires 021 to bang into the clouda Bounce off again like and inxers against the ropes of the

in

11 has the vitality of flashes Fike se hung there, with my was in the air, while the first Huna hegne to flash ler To translate such ex- thunderbolta between onr periences into words. to sections." give wings to the dragging sentences, to find the stab-

bing phrases

that

will

It

by George Malcolm THOMSON

studio O PITAEL CLOSTIRMANN Actonsuțital engineering in France and America, got his pilot's licence at 17. Jained Fice French Fartes as fighter pilet, commanded a fighter wing in RAF. Credited with destruction of 21 Wat After the enomy sirplanes. had the impression I was

Deputy Jar became palementary Strasbourg. diving into an aquarhim fu} «f demented flat. The wings

Spit shuddered from the my

1a uf Dammer-blows

my

cannon."

1

At such moments Clostermann inspired by the and horror til his

has the strength and in-

is summon the mad, melo- ferest of the vivid personalities:

author himself. confident grandeur to the the dramatic

theme. and, one Judges, streperous imagination. fe pass On Motuhotte, his hero, the French

scene

some impression

of

the

the tier with the emaciated figure high tempo and sudden and furies of those air - that is a

Who's

fremenbus

dozen

Nowotny たい

War:

denth

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evident

that

put out of action. A ztaggering blow, biken from the jublic

the fine", "

IL would be #mistake fo This book which think touches many phases of the air war, as simple the story of

ne young daredevil with amazing talent for writing.

It is adru a sketch for a war in-tory d a moving tribute

of gallant men. hust

It Cesterman's

evirades, elow the sense of impliners' that tells Superhuman "ser- tion, in the leaps of parting, in bitten. There are zegrets in farewell, even the fatwell to

irresistible smile, As the end of the war op- whose

one of the proaches jt battles te's tragic moments. Suther- morale and physique alike are

land. the Scotsman

## strained to breaking point, other desperadoes from Clostermann, by this time com dhe RAF. And even a bandful

manding a wing, describes the the other side. from

Walter effees of this on nerves, tem The German are, and acident rates. He tuserts a on the last week of the vivid account of the Luftwaffe's "A fare like that of last effort, the bold, brilliantly

planned

General stroke by wtjes left the Allied Sperrie aircraft

on 27 bares nothing from smouldering heaps but which lal!

black pitiors of smoke rose, as straight as # Jew cathedral pillars. In minutes 300 machines had been pressively.

Who?

PUZZLE: FIND

a

tired child, with a trace of sad- and determined mouth BOSS and chin."

*A pity that type wasn't

uniform." our

|wearing. Breoker.

said

There young men have the impres don that they are in a world of their own, with meaning of its own, something far superior to the grubby land War

below with its crawling, sticking tanks and massacres of women and children. "Nowotny belonged to us; was part of our

where there were

10 hatreds and no

the FILM STAR ideologics,

by Jon Hope

Back in England from five-

month

10

frontiers.

is U.S.A.

Above

טוד

the clouds, in those trip Geoffrey Cotterell, Since insane and lovely battles, the February 1949 when his novel flying men develop a point of

almost 12 "Randle in Springtime" was a view,

philosophy, Book of the Month, Cotierall certainly a mystique, And

this, has

too, Joined list of best-sellers.

Clostermann conveys, al big Trip to America coincided with though the first purpose publication of his "Strait and book is to put before his Narrow." New York book critles readers the hysteria of the alr compared his technical ability battles

and the Buctuating

to that of United States novellstcourse of the air war. John P. Marquand, and his physical appearance to that of lm star Dann Andrews. Cotterell will stay novelist,

Pietured abare: Audrews left, Cotterell right.

flow adroitly he plans and executes his grand battle pieces!

One day he hovers over the Fristan Islands, yellow and arid on the grey sen, waiting for

HITIS.

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Fi Stow was over, The public had been satisded. The programme had been rakker heavy, the actors not tre bad, the res had eaten the tad trainer."

This livn

IVAN

must in-

YOU HAD TO GO

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A British

Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

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32

1 Transparent mineral (4). 4 Drinks (7).

8 Musical instrument (4). Luminous cirels (4)..

10 Cushioned 'seat (7),

11 Fruit (4)

12 Breakwater (4).

14 Cterie (7).

17 Foolish (3).

10 Show in (5), 22 Perfume

17) 20 Count (5). 27 Axart (4)

drink (7). 29 Jealousy (1), 35 As (4).

(4).

20 Kata

2

31 stelen (7)..

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT THROUGH A NARROW

T

-THIS

CLEFT BETWEEN ROCKS AND SNAKES

SLITHERED BEFORE YOU ---

DREAM

MEANS:

There is a conflict in your mind between work and emotion; the emotion seems to be

sex.

"Knocking a nail in the wall" is a job. of Your attempt to do that job results in a

work.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

""HOW D'YA LIKE

THOSE & AK LA FARMER, OR

AM 1 A FARMER 2

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2 Warlike woman (8).

3 Szlezled (0).

4 Military body (3).

5 Incarcerate (8).

6 Rove abou: (5).

7 Precise (5).

12 Mus (4).

13 Sangs (4).

18 Nobleman (4).

15 Pain (47.

JB Chmbs (6).

20 Acccat (B),

31 Team (0),

23 Track (5).

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24 Establish by low (5).

#3 Occurrence (5).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Actors: 1 Method, 5 Scold, 8 Venus, 9 Uneven. 10 Smear. 11 Route, 12 Dash, 13 Anger, 18 Reelte, 18 Reason, 20 Guest, 22 Lava, 23 Piyal. 25 Ratio, 26 Noten, 27 Eater. 23 Leads. 29 Legend. Down: Moulding, 2 14 Treasure, 3 Ovie, 4 Denotes, 5 Suvein. 0 Camat, 7 Leaze, Gene. 15 Retained, 16 Rations, 17 Colonel, 10 Expied, 21 Usage, 24 Tora! •

Human Anatres

AND THAT YOU TRIED TO KNOCK A NAIL IN THE WALL BUT IT CAME ALIVE AND TURNED INTO A SNAKE?

transformation of nail-which means effort of

work-into snake, which moans instinct roaring its head. The going through a narrow, rocky cleft is an attempt to negotiate a task; here again your instincts-in the guise of snakos- are endangering the fulfilment of that task. Either you are working too hard or you are not having sufficient social recreation.

Inflations

'L' AND THE GIRL I MARRY.

IS GOIN' T' HAVE HER. OWN CARS AND. MINKS, AN!-

Al' DIMONDS, AI A HOUSE IN ALAMU, AN' CALIFORNIA... AN'

ALL OVER'.

sic.

Etc.

Depth of field can help you in scenas containing both near and for objects.

UNDERSTANDING DEPTH OF FIELD

FANCY optical formulas and camera is set for 12 feet, quite

you run across

to

an area will be in good focua. But if you set the distance In- dicator at three feet, the accept- able area will be only a matter of Inghts, **

The second general principfe. is that depth of Rick! grows

а

cati reason

To apply theso principles to the scenle view of a few para- graphs back, you this way. You know that using a smalt lens aperture increases the area in focus; therefore, you 190 the smallest lens would

technical bighly

photo- graphie terms are beyond the camera comprehension of most fans, Our primary concern is getting good, sharp pictures. Yet there is one optical properly of lenses which, it understood, can be of considerable value in pleture taking. I'm referring to larger as the aperture grows

For example, at a term called "depth of field." smaller.

given distance you will get With the camera at a given a much greater area in locus at distance between 1/22 than you will at f/4.5. setting, the

points Dearest

and This is the main reason for using the forest from the camera that the smaller Jens apertures when is in ncceptable focus is known it is possible. ns the depth of field. One application or it might be a situation like this. Supposing a scene with a beautiful background and also ar Interesting object in the fore ground. You want to keep both in focus. But, if you focus on the nearby object, the beautiful opening that is practicable for background goes out of focus. that particular scene. Secondly,' And if you focus on the back- you wouldn't focus on the back- at the ground, the nearby object will ground at infinity nor nat be harp. However, by distance of the nearby object, knowing your depth of feld you but rother nt some point can And a focusing point some- belween them which will keep both reasonably sharp. where between them which will them

of keep buth

them sharply You: depth-of-field scale can teil defined.

you just where that point is, There are two general princi-

You are bound to run across ples concerning depth of field this problem in your pleture that you should keep in mind, taking and, if you understand First of all, you will discover how depth of field works, you. that the zone of acceptable will bring back a good picture." sharpness of the image is greater It's a good thing to know about.

the when your camera is set for forther distances, If your

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