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'ADMITTING THAT THE TWINS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT ... THIS IS HOW THE REST FIT IN

THE TWINE

LAL BENCE AND RALPH

ANN

CANOL

10CF1

Everest has stirred up another debate. Eric Shipton (above) is making another attempt to climb the world's highest mountain

MOTHER

P

FATHER

GEORGE JUNIOR

CTOREI

GRANDMA

BUSH

VERA

SILES explains his FAMILY TREE

NATALIB THE CAT

ILES has been pegged down at last.

readers the bewildering collection of beings who make up his cartoon family.

With the exception of Vera, and all those in the family named George, names have so far been avoided. But because of constant public inquiries about which is which, the following census has been prepared:-

GRANDMA: Apart from mentioning that there is always a faint sniff in the and air of bull's-eyes, embrocation, brandy when Grandma is around, the less said about her the better.

FATHER: The son of Grandma, as stric

ly a peace-l;ving churaeter

With a Lumily

such as is he must be forgiven sional lapses into mild vagrancy

für ucca- with his

he

kes-married colleagues. Like all fathers,

is head uf the has a vague lea that be household

MOTHER: Father's wife There is nothing vague about Mother's idea of who's head of

Day's What Mother the househ; id.

goes for everyone Sometimes

GEORGE: Their elder son George has read everything, and that's about the int for George.

OR

TO CLIMB NOT TO CLIMB?

his present efforts

were

a waste of effort. As I ex- ported, the debate soon left Shipton

go his own way, and devoted itself to the all-embracing argument of why climb Everest at all

"Even if

i

the

By Brett

Oliver

the

"Further,

ERNIE: So talled AS change from George, he is the and the most younger son

element of dangerous

the family Nine times out of tou he is the brain behind the more The unpleasant happenings.

o her time he is asleep

ANN: The eldest daughter. She is very much ke George. work xcop that she does sometimes One day we shall have to produce Ant's hus- band, if nly to put those twins of hers on a respectable basis.

CAROL: In all large fanilles

我们

mountaineering is there is always one who causes effort to resolve moun-les trouble than the rest;

On prin far that's Carol. taineering problems

Everest.

riple, there is nothing against

BRIDGET: She is the

and daughter

an attempt to climb

has Why condemn it if some people youngest

whole man does reach "Look what happened when enjoy it? If they want to climb more cunning than the

Their lot put together. Nobody has top- 13 could

only be the Ameans horned in on the Everest, well, let them.

and ever been able to pin anything IS praiseworthy There was almost altitude through

danger us an absolute freak in Italians' K2.

on Bridget. A very Lho weather what is his re- an international incident i hate justifiable.

felly when working with Ernie. ward? He gets there, exhausted, to thank what would happen

VERA: The intellectual wife these days if the Russians de- his mind dulled to

vided u climb Everest.

of George. Somebody or some- 1 bis eyes can

porlay out of look out and below

As the old man continued his thing took the ha And so he condemned a defence, 1 detected a feeling in Vera's life. She considers she is unless everything bad

"hill renegade

Aspirins She i his words of "Cad sir. if we disenchanted cajoled.

he brought his

Veru a$ tu climb, are us important to have Everest didn't climber." argument to an end, saying: '!

what would the British people brandy is to Grandme helieve is impossible to climb Everest and an impertinence to

GEORGE JUNIOR: Only son attempt at "

The speaker with the job of convinuing everyone it was just plan silly got off to an uncon- vincing start by admitting he

and was a "re climber" &tually been in the Himalayas at taste. But he had never

tir. Everest

ind Leen want to.

FAYET

He aides hurself instrud with

belo who live the Tibetans, Everest an

something sarred. Chamelungina.

231

ALS

insensibility. may see, he

him but, is clear, sees nothing. And if he does, hr as tuo far gone to appreciate it."

only on it

this

as

forward,

come to""s

London, Nev. 30.

Heaven's OR

sake, climb the at when as a simple object of a safe retreat and relief from was a polite deba

their suffering. These men had his answer: "Mountaineering is vote. wretched thing contemplation

"F

om afar,

the

and let's get mountain is beautiful, majesti.. back to some proper mouD- taineering."

"These Tibetans, when they

the white

no

The

Usually

the

TWINS THE

(LAURENCE AND RALPH): Named

after their mother's (Ann) favourite actors,

far Sc

neither Sir nor Sir

Ralph has And when everyone had add- Laurence

taken legal action. ed his piece, they pul it to the

RUSH: Glory be. Shipton, you

The family spaniel. 13 continue your expedition. Like Vere he considers he The Sylvan Debating Club ap- disenchanted. plauds

by two tu your work one.

וונים

NATALIE THE CAT: Named after Nat Gubbins be- cause she takes after Nat's cat,

R

THE

FISH: RANDY The best that can be said.

that he is non-

END PIECE: The man who de- bated against climbing Everest at the Sylvan Club really didn't have his heart in it. You see, Randy is

produclive. he's really all for it.

The debate rumbled on Thereof George and Vero. was talk of the high moral value takes the can back for The speaker was warming up.

an elderly of high endeavour, the spirit of twins. Opposing him was He quote from the accounts of :1 Tool prin

have got so far and gentleman, so dignant at the adventure which surely should men who

put They call A

that be encouraged, human nature, "Goddess no further on Everest and who, suggestions

after their experience could look for a start he could only invoke the beauty of the eternal snows, Mother of the Shows." and tins

retaliation a string of mean- with horror-how

of Everest's rain, mist, ice. bit why

sted, ingly grunts and waves of his anyone they were completely exhausted, inexplicable

ing winds, butterflies... Then he remembered it should want to reach its sum- drained of will and praying for hand.

and began

that the written

effects of sport which, in turn, is a goal If you are altitude and cold changed them of the impossible.

going to regard sport as some- into something that was not a

thing which should have no proper humun being.

risk in it, you will have to con- "There is really no sense in one it to tiddleywinks and mar- And that, believe it or

de- bies. was said of uncon- hear of new disasters on Everest, it, is there?" queried the not.

shake their heads and wonder bater. "There is, besides, Everest by quered

one at the stupidity of famous mountaineer to man. They feel the toll of life earthly practical use in stand-

summit. just retribution for the ing on Everest's famous moun is a

gain world won't another

anything-it of seems these aspirants want to

"If there is an objection on taineer about 15 years ago. sacrilege of attempting to con- wor

quer such masterpiece

get there just for the kudos of the ground it is a waste of time The man implored to get it nature.

it, or because they are gamblers and life, well, what about the this moral And, besides was and done with

wasted 011 the football Eric Shipton, who today is gument, the Sylvan debater put and like to risk their lives and ne

up a strong case on the sheer the lives of their hired porters. fields all over the world or in heer you can't measure your chances the holy game of cricket. Both struggling up Everest again physical and mental impos-

on Everest."

these sports are dangerous and siglity in an attempt to find a new

ronquering Everest.

ta all the

Internationally, too, invading there have even been cases of attempts route which might lead to

had Everest was bad thing. The depth among the public watching only

men seven

was regarded the conquest of the great

as and paying-for it. reached 28,000

bare mountain Teel. A peak.

thousand feet to go. yet the Britain's for the conquering of,

"It is hard to draw the line summit was still untrod. He just as two other peaks in the Unlike 1938, when he got maintained

K2 and Kanchen- but maintain mountaineering eme Himalayas,

war were before the

Is a sport. If they want to risk jungo, within 2,000 feet of the cold, thin air, sudden, blinding

the domain of their necks and break their top, this expedition is re- gales and blizzards and the im- respectively

and German moun- bones, it is probably from a fuel- connoitring the southern mense physical bardship made Italian

ing that perhaps it can be done. taineering maimen. the mountain inviolate. slopes, a hitherto untried approach. It may lead to a full-scale attempt.

over

ever

ar-

that the extreme

BOOM

FOOD FOOD BOOSTS POULTRY

PIGS AND

Marriage with the man who runs-

MORE

THE YA

NEW YORKER

From R. M. MacCOLL: New York

of

If he

Let's turn again to the advice which Shipton got 15 years ago. He was then

ORE details about how try- were but artifices off on his third attempt to

of courtship. ing life with a genius can Our relationship took on the beat Everest. Why climab

be have been given bỹ beautiful appearance of that between Everest? What on earth is

The Food Ministry may in- 32-year-old Mr Ariane Ross, potentate and subject. London. of the British experiments has

magazine "No talking ut breakfast lest the use of it? Why do it,

stuffs they sell to farmers if the founder-editor Harold Ross. It disturb his reading. why go risking your neck "ROOM FOOD," the astonish- defeated the drug in a form call- clude the drugs in the feeding wife of New Yorker

ing powder with which ed procaine-penicillin.

Mrs Ross, in the most appalling American farmers are boosting This is a mixture of penteil- council's trials are successful.

Court to knock at the door and say: an improved form of

In petition that: "There was a 'May I come in?' conditions just for the sake the growth of pigs and poultry, lin and

cocaine, the dentist's anaesthetic. panding his experiments, a divorce told the Supreme for was working in his study I had

And every morning she Blount's work sideline he is testing a system

discuss trivia' with him. And told to leave of X-raying new-born pigs to standing rule that I could not

on his study a will CHAPMAN ha proved that find out which of them

by this definition

"trivia' type-written note-it had to be "Boom Food" will produce the best bocom also speed the

day's questions, suggestions, or PINCHER growth of tur-

"It was his requests for an appointment keys and fowls

of standing, exhausted, in- has arrived in Britain. sensible, atop 29,000 feet I saw fine, healthy pigs which are giants for their age at an of useless rock? Why?

experimental station near Stoke Mandeville, Bucks.

They have been given a daily dose of the powder which con- tains the golden American drug aurcomycin.

COLUMN

Meanwhile Dr Blount is ex-

who is

Some piglets are born with consisted of everything I tried to type-written containing the

She went on: extra pairs of riby which show say to him."

the X-ray up on

screen. By especially of icing these and rejecting the pernicious habit to shut his eyes with Ross.

away whenever I baby chickena

talked, and others farmers may be able to and turn

when I stopped reared for West ensure that they rear, only the talking he would heave a sigh of End restaurants. on-backed pigs which produce

She

'BOHEMIAN SET!

completed that he

Nobody knows how the drugs lots of lean bacon with not too obvious relief, and ask: 'Are you allotted one night ́ ́a week on

only to inch down, defont- In neighbouring aties there Until this is completed the ed. It is a point for debate, were more giant pigs, which had Government will not sanction

much fot.

The thought has probably occurred to many who

At 22 weeks they weigh near- have rend

death of

ly 10st. and are ready to go to and ngony on its the bacon factory. Their litter-

all through now? have been given work. But the results have been

Mrs Rose pointed out that she which she could be with him. treacherous slopes, of men mates, which

the same food minus the drug, so impressive that the Agrleul- driving themselves to

got a degree at the University of Night clubet Only went to a the

BALANCED SMOKES will not reach market size for tural Research Council has do

Texas. Many other people con- single one in ten years. limit of human endurance another month.

"But if Ginger Rogers, or cided to stage a full-scale trial.

other women friends, wished to AN UPSURGE in the popu-sidered her "bright enough." larity of Empire tobacco is

go he needed Intle 'HAD TO KNOCK'

urging And she objects to his friends, been given an all-British ver- the use of any form of "Boom forecast by Dr A. II. Bunting,

Back in the late 30's Ross "the literary Bohemien set, in It was, in fact, debuted sion of "Boom Food contain- Food" for feeding farm animals, formerly chief scientist to the

groundnuts scheme. ponichin Instead OF in London this week by aureomycin.

Experiments have shown that (then divorced from wife No 2) which ordinary amenities are the City's oldest organised The Drot altempt to boost ing perdeillin to pigs may lead the smoking quality of tobacco was a model of charm, wit, and taboo and banal, courtesy. In a as a fiance, sald. Mrs Itons. But bon mot and the adrois wit- arguers the animal growth by feeding peni- to the development of germs depends largely on the balance attention"quite the cavaller" cliche, and only the bar or Sylvan Debating Club.. elle foiled because the drug is highly resintant to the drug-as of nitrogen and potash In it.

So by changing the fertilisers with marriage in 1940 there ticism are tolerated." al

And mumming up the whole destroyed by

digestive has happened in human patients.

an abrupt change, she caine If the pigs were then attacked used on the crop it may be pos

thing Mrk load concludes.” My I went along out of Jukes.

by those gems, ponteillin would gible to rid TanganyUtn's tobacco alleged on learnt that his principal failing, I stippuse, fa curioulty. The subject.com

William P. Blount, not be effective for treating of is unpleasant tang."

konian Express, Beroton) graciousness and consideration that I was not born a genius." abrfied Shipton and whether the go-ahead scantist in charge them as it is now.

body of

Dr

the

There is some fear that feed-

: