1951-12-29 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.

ICES

Protect Your FAMILY'S

PROTEIN

VITAMIN B

HEALTH

RIBOFLAVIN

Youth's call to youth-

First damping of ardour--

Nightly vigil at her

First success--

window

Second damping of Wishful thinking-

ardour-

Fact

First instalment-

NIACIN

REGISTRAR'

OFFICE

FOOD (NERGY

The parting-

GILES

T'he pussing Hari-

The reunio

Second instalmeme--

presents a story to strike a

chord in many hearts

it

You could call

"The Graduation of a Husband--- from First Stirrings-to the Full Burden

THE

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

About that extra bit

་་

THE

HIE

T

Her parents (third damping of ardour)

Third instalment~~

Ripeness ( all (Now start again at No. 1)

THIN MAN sets a new MYSTERY

This desire he translated into a series of jobs for which he

suited;

was

wildly un labourer, factory hand. stevedore, anything he could find.

NEW YORK. Man Thin Vanishes. It might be the line for the

chapter ia th stranze if and times of Dashiell Hammett, a de-

The work was brutal and veloping. fascinating saying. Whether he is writ he was frail. and to this the Biographs with no touch of ing again nobody knows.

period is attributed The man who once was

several fiction in it, though packed

tuberculosis which ted with

situations misolverl

"Private Eye" himself times in later years

the Falty Ar almost taken his life. Sam Space hiaself would the was on

buckle case years ago barve Powerl

of pudding!

COLUMN

MAT

people di sorve

Far front

more sympathy

spex Charles Baker

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Rive to FUL

their doctors than they Gus: Hospitai

have been getting.

Record-

1

ing to a medical report

day,

tha

Do: to s at.but near?. adi aling for

GE S

Baker

tobo

20

do pkg of e4 p. his thatch of electric snowy-white hair oth to of mat no

bristing as defiantly as ever "Natine

have the still-black brow - otteet en tu

man Andings "It helps in car ent at ng on was sad mousturhe. the

rated by many lovers of it clea

ize

good whodunit as top operu ve: weigol who st

sake." NX

discloset

tay make

there

must

Choke k

and wasen

14:

them.

12!!

-20

1:

When there the huh, censties, anak been

dors and mentions for instantive of them all, stepped the other day out of the Federal help colit

eating more th is goed it will oftus stimulate and wa

gaul in Kentucky and disap peared as totally as any his own imagined suspects.

These are

unfortu-

Sur

When there GOVE DET sleep.

the- simulation, as in physical

x.is, it will eunjort, pani er anx

caling effort have

not the uple folk who fitness

Banduar trauble They ne

h:. ! !+$ pigedly

Athl hung overweight

The fine balance betweets. Else fort you not at the found you

1

He pointe1 out that tulare. undoubtedly plus

1

147

Ant

Liber

causing dyspepsia, e pically certain susceptible peupte boly www-whit determines new experiments at Birmingh

that athlet what happens to your weight have

justified Falty regulating cooches are governed by mechanism in the bain yien for hidding runne's in zmoke.

The chiscovered have

But for o: Jivery people suck ing has little effect on heathing. Numark has Lathe to do with it

and only slightly in vasra work of the healthy heart

The regulator 1 highly sens Live to changes in the strength of the sugar dissolved

in

FIZZING

blood-s ruumi. Be blood-sugar★ A SCIENTIST

the

strength falls,

Ta han

12

bdirs has discovered what akti

son is out messages, which auto- surac bottles of beer 127 violent-

mucivaly (nerva, e tu?

appetite, ly an ove flow a

are oprnet.

suck a the.

with

ut

76

for

The world-famed Pinkerton

and mn le Agency}

1

has

Pinkerton His days as a

between 1917 173277 Can fortune Betionalising the und 1922. That work wits

death business, now udds a too hard for his heaith. new riddle to the great un- answered one he left behind

the when

prison gates a clanged shut: How did man with his brain get em

in the first place broiled with Communists?

Fame's Lightning

THE change seems to have come in middle life at

his after

the

time,

пож

Hammett had served just wo months and 18 days of the six months' sentenc.. they gave him last Septem- some unperceived moment

(along millionaire Leftist friend. Frederick Vanderbilt Field) for refusing to tell who put up that 26,000 dollars bail hond for 11 convicted Reds.

He ha proved that the be| HER

Some prople reem by le bon with the appetitgulator out in the e buutes invariably con-

of adjument It is

Live that it

so insen: trens daggor-shape crystals

they can rwy be fure the minute that Coes not fveling of hunge

then the gh the powerful efe wiern

↑ in microscope.

The

blood-ugar level high

Such paste

are still an US when they have coton all the

[noxi they nerd. They go on rating to satisfy their hunger and put on the extra feat us TEX:

Once they have got lot the amount of food they need falls, because they tend to take less exercise. But their appelle re- mains as big 39 (ver So they got Pater and fatte.

Doctors coll this exaggerated appetite bulimia. The only effective way of treating it seems to be by giving drugs which :e- duce the appetite,

from the Anyone suffering reverse complaint--chronic lack of appetite has always had the doctor's and everybody else's sympathy. Now it recs that the chronic over-caters, who have been dismissed as gluttons, may be just as deserving.

SMOKING

"IF THE lives of snicke's are a trife shorter, perhaps they may also be that more the merrier." That is how

HAVE FUN

heart

2952

Arty Quarter

17 years ago, when the fertile pen turned sterile and more sharp-edged thrillers to join the golden cavalcade.

came

"I would have been firedt, anyway," he once said, "ex

literar vept for a certain

quality in my reports.”

He has just left prison

with

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IGRANTE

Dashiell Hammett

"It is all yours. I have got what I wanted.

But he only thought so. From misdir thirties to 1949 the Hammett (at £500 a week) toil- et in Hollywood's sunlit gave- yar:

For a while he did pon- Characteristically, they dis

not use him as a writer but a pous literary reviews for a

York a technical advises and tinkerer- New defunct newspaper. Then he drop-in-chial for the scripts of others. ped from sight.

now

hightning But in 1929 fame's

His Arst novel-length struck.

detective yarns "The Dain Curse and "Red Harve!" came cut in smash hit.

book form and were an intant

Then came the lung proces. all; the sion, money-makers iterary soirees, tra-rup la hand, the for copies autographed gushing dowage:s.

It was early apparent--or

Hammett loathed and despise 3 now that the it But he wasn't oblivious to so it seems

Dashiel life of

Hammett the happy clangour of bookshop cash registers all over the world. ERE in New York, was not to follow the cou

ventional paths. where for years hi has lived

in A quietly modest second-floor flat Victorian house in the estab the Greenwich Village arty pority N start off a chain-reaction, rap,!- |

As in the quarter, he has not yet been y legal the

seen around any of his old ber, he beli; ver

The problem he is now tuck-haunts. If his publishers, Virag is how to get righ of the lawyers and crystals.

-London Express Service)

NANCY

In 1934 came the bigged bem all: The Thu Man And his then-Hollywood celles. A 14, surprising parents not at all, he sud- the denly walked out of Institute Polytechnic Baltimore.

at

He wanted, he announced, agents know to get down to the "bedrock where he is they are not realities of life."

"Cents" of Security

LIVE WITHIN YOUR INCOME

AND ENJOY

PEACE OF

MIND

YOUR

FOR

LESORTED

COCKTAIL ASSORTED

THIS IS MY INCOME FOR

A MONTH

WHAT ARE YOU

DOING,

NANCY?

TRYING

TO GET

PEACE

OF MIND

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the time Was

He wrote a play, but it found no suge

£500 a week

ROM then on he professed he was not intreded in writing again There was, he used to say and unhappily it was true-no point in werking when men pro- using ready-made radio shows on wax wrre willing to hand him £ 200 a week just for using the Thin Man Sm Spade, and i others of his works.

the dis

same

night-club

at least a werk With £500 from usio alone he lived well.

little, shot a shed pheacam, round.

Jammett L

Was this the time when the haring a fat with a man friend

May be. the married and was divorces always-questing brain turned to yes ago. His wife, had nurset Left Wog dialectic? ham through: a TB attack and But that again is a mystery only

the Thin Man can unravel. they had two daughters).

When the Hollywood telegram came he waved his hand around the flat and shouted joyously:

By Ernie Bushmiller

BY LIVING WITHIN MY

INCOME

Frederick Cook

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