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YOU SENT US THIS DREAM... YOU WERE HAPPILY A PLAYING ANKLE DEEP! IN A STREAM WHILE WEARING A NEW

PAIR DE BROWN. LACE-UP SHOES

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1951.

brown lace-up shoes on the contrary-ESPECIALLY the Ince- aps--represent respectability, conventions, formality.

Here is a conflict between your consclous mind and your unconscious mind: between reality and wishful thinking. When

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your luces snap, wishful thinking gets the upper hand: when you find a new pair of laces, reality regains the upper hand. Looks as if you can't help being respectable, however much you try otherwise,

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Her story bears a sufficient 268 pages.

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Reretios, 20 Alas, 21 Residue, 28 Record, 27 Generate, 28 Drove, 29 Suddenly. Down; 1 Waits, 2 Lilac, 3 M'ser, 4 Tart, 5 Elicil, 6 Signed, § Tremor, 11 Revel, 12 Dupes, 14 Desert, 15 Mimic, 16 Recur, 18 Ranges, 19 Rained, 22 Seedy, 23 Donur, 24 Edges, 26 True.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Here's a shot any boy or girl might make with a simple camera

and have fun doing so.

FOR A 12-YEAR-OLD

"NE of our raders has written graphy then to start

out using

real-in asking about box cameras. the simplest type of camera.

was corrupted to cross the Atlantic Ocean, aged 11) by a man who set led

slow-motion 25)

on £4,000 the

her. Her body (aged record

on a beaca was found west-to-east literary cross. Long Island in June, 1931. ing of our time. No doubt Murder or suicide? Could it was thought that British have been either.

THE HOUSES IN BETWEEN. sensibility needed A

Collins, By Howard Spring. toughening process before it could withstand the im. pact of O'Hara's prose, people and story. Especially story.

Having proved by & sloic resistance to recent assaults by members of the literary strong- arm squad that our nerves are HOW UP 10 requirements. O'Mara s idy is unleashed on us. The question is: Was it worth wait. ing for?

long.

15, 576 pages. ALERT and indefatigable A Spring wri'es 220,000 worde and in a steady jog-trot tells the life-story of Sarah Undridge, who

Ilves to be 89.

Firs: scene of the novel is the opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Practically every public event of the following 80 years is recorded except the Charge of the Light Brigade (obliquely re- ferred to in a quotation Теплутов).

from

Answer: We have waited too old music-hall song, "You could Spring takes his Utle from an

The ugly story is set in see the Crystal Palace $t New York's speak-easy world wasn't for

the houses in be- during the last feverish years of tween." You could see

this Prohibition. That gives

novel if I wasn't for the pages mildly historical rather than an in between. acutely topical interest.

It centres on Gloria, a de- generate "Society girl," given to he bele, drugs and promis- culty. It is said in her defence that she was corrupted, aged 11, by e middle-aged man, ever since when Gloria has heen slightly psychopathic (ample cvidence provided).

SCHOOL FOR

By

LOVE. Olivia

Manning, Heinemann, 10%. 6d. 232 pages.

LIVIA MANNING is a writer

who

her goes

own way, and subject.

that owes

pioks her own handles it in a way little to imitation of others.

Her Miss Bohun, who lives in Jerusalem wài ing confidently Now it seems that happier days for the Day of Judgment, ap- lie ahead, A business mant peurs to be B monster of named Ligrett breaks with his selfishness and hypocrisy. She wife and offens Gloria marriage, overcharges a poor little orphan before he can commit this for his board and tricks an

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rash a01, Gloria tumbles off the elderly lodger out of his room.

He's planning to get his daughter

For picture taking is fun. W. h a camera for her birthday soon. "I wonder," he writes, "if a box a child beginning to make sp camera the camera dar her. shots, it's more dam the easic: it She'll be twelve years old and is Certainly, a fixed-focus camera I. has never really used a camera is the easiest camera to use. before."

has limitations, yes it can't, for example, slop fast action.

within

But Its limitations a

Remember, with a camera of

I'm taking it for granted that used when my correspondent uses the fixed-focus camera gives excellent term "box camere,' " he refers to results. any simple, fixed-focus camera--- not only the common, box-shaped one-but the fixed-focus reflex this type there's no need to fret type with the large viewfinder. about focus. Any subject six f And my answer is "yes" I know or farther away from the lens is of no better way to learn photo- All you need do to make a pic- in focus. And exposure's pro-t

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Will someone kindly tell me just who it was who filled up Daddy's occupation as Professional hypochon- driac with schizophrenic tendencies'?"

Bure to line up the subject in the vicwinder and release the chuter. It's so simple as that. And we the modern, built-in flash, such a camera is used day or night.

Using such a camera anyone can learn the simple fundamen a's -how to lead and unload the camera, to always advance the film between shots, to hold the camera steady when shooting to be sure the subject is cen'rod in the Ander. And, as interest pro- gressas, one can use attachments for making close-ups or filters for scenic views.

In fact, come of the finest land- scapes I've ever seen were made by a man who never u90s any osmera but a box camera, And there's an old axtom, too, tha

accep'able

if you can't make pictures with a box camera-

limitations. always within its you won't be able to make 'hem with any other type of camera. So it's a good way to start.

--John van Guilder

Hallowe'en Again

BU

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– FOR THE OTHERS.

NOBODY IS SO UN-HALLOWED AS THE LAD WIOT BEEN INFLICTED WITH A SILLY HAT AND HATES THE WHOLE DARN BUSINESS.

THEY SAY NO HALLOWEEN PARTY IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A BLACK CAT (FOR DECORATION)..

COPR. 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORF. TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

THERE'LL BE THE LAD WHO ALWAYS EXPECTS TO FIND ALL HIS FRIENDS LIT UP.....

THE KID WHO'S BEEN SCARING THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF NERVOUS NEIGHBORS ⠀⠀ FINDS HOME VERY COMPORT-

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