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I Unruffled (4)

4 Apalhetle (7)

8 Acted similarly (4)

9 Animal food (4)

10 Nol outstanding (7)

11 Present (4)

12 Pelt (4)

14 Went in (7)

17 Decorate (5)

10 Happen again (5)

22 Scatters (7)

28 Aliot (4)

124 Branch (47

28 Baseball player (7)

28 Afferm (4)

30 Tackle (4)

31 Hoards (7)

32 Touch with the lips (4) ..

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2 Timorous (B)

3 Feeding trough (0)

4 Permission (5)

5 Arrival (8)

Eat greedily (5)

7 Nook (5)

12 Dimcult (4).

13 Follows closely (4)

15 Nation (4)

10 Terrible (4)

18 Assert (0)

20 Go aboard. (6)

2) Voices (8)

A good shot for any family album, particularly since it Includes dad, who too often. takes pictures of the family and

neglects

to. see that ho

ts himself In samo of them.

Get Into The Family Album

may

THE old family album I be the butt of a good many worn-out jokes but the fact re mains that there's no historian to compare with a wisely used

сатета,

Aste the average adult stien he first really started moking

23 Form of expression peculiar pictures and chances are his an-

to a language (5)

24 Chooses (5)

45 Ancestors (5)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Custom, 5 Refer, $ Repel. 9 Craven, 10 Fugue, 11 Saved. 12 Lack, 13 Rests, 18 Detest, 18 Parsce, 20 Geese, 22 Mass, 23 Pails, 25 Minim, 20 Earned, 27 Rears. 28 Steer, 20 Shades. Down: Cackling. 2 Seascape, 3 Ores, 4 Menaces, 5 Referee, 0 Eludes, 7 Exult, 14 Strained, 15 Subsides, 16 Dreamer,_17___Teljers,_10_Aspire, 21 Evict, 24 Sash.

You SAW CATS

CHASING RATS-ONE CAT WITH FIERCE EYES TURNED TO LOOK AT YOU. THERE WAS BLOOD

ON ITS FACE AND A DEAD RAT AT ITS FEET

swer will be that he really got Interested in photography when his children were born.

All of which only goes

to prove that you're missing a lot if you don't keep a full, pictorial family history

And that means

the family. One of my friends, an eager picture-taker, confessed to me several months ago that among hundreds of snapshots two dozen of his pictures--in-- he had of his family less than

cluded himself in the scene,

THEN YOU ARE ISSUING KNIVES AND FORKS TO YOUR SHIPMATES. THEY TAKE THEM WITH ONE HAND, TRANSFER THEM TO THE OTHER AND STICK THEM INTO YOU

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHITE MAN RETURNS, by cludes a macaque monkoy, four Agnos Newton Keith, guinea-pigs, four white mice, aix, telescople-oyed 'callco-gold. 15/-, Michael Joseph,

their eyes on the DORNEO la no pleasant goldfish

tree shrew,

fish that baconi-Sinmers

Bo

place by Western stun cat, a Wonk do dards of comfort, and the four white doves.

doves, two parrots, discomforts described in able to get loose at any incon

and und a honey bear, which is

this autobiography leave veulent time.

little to the imagination. The book teems with interest- But they are recounted with ing characters, all excellently drawn, Chinese, Japanese, and Buch optimism and humour Indien, whe populate the island that the reader will enjoy as well as the natives. All of every minute of the story. them come to life,

The

story

Through four years of sutter alone brings them to life, but for author adds ing and starvation in Japanese good measure the prison camps the author, with her own excellent llustrations. George, her Htle boy,

and WHITE MAN RETURNS is Horry, her husband, dreamed sequel to the best-seller novel only of Canada and peace, THREE CAME HOME, which

Than

six months afler has since been Almed. liberation the North Borneo Government cabled Harry to go

Harry back.

Toturned and twelve months later Agnes fol- lowed with George.

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FINALE

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BERLIN, Heinz

Rain, 15/-, Wornos

Lauric.

Around the stars the sky was

oppressively black.

There was

Much of the story deals in terestingly with the Impact of foreboding in the air; something Ves going to happen. A sound Borneo Hfe on young George:

distant at first, pierced the George in his tile hair above Berlin. wound himself about his sheet, terror to the hearts of those

It stru

eaten or otherwise absorbed his pyjama top, thrown away his glances upwards, seeing nothing. whe-hened it; they cast fearful trousers, and burled his head

leaped into

brief

thing he does seriously, and be- Ing awake is the same. George out of sight, at seven is either full-speed or full-stop, an incredible likeness of Granny at plus ninety-five,

"George! Get up!"

Of all things about Borneo the author hates the jungle most; George loved it, When asked:

So If you're the pleture-taker in your own home, don't forget to get into some of your shots. It's always possible to arrange picture, select your exposure, your lens and stutter adjustments, that then turn the you comera Cyer" to someone else to "he" Cross the, shutter while you "No, but look at the blood!"

make

"Do your leech, bites bother

where

hearing only the throb of icient- under the pillow. Sleep is eless machinery thousands of feet Then they into activity cfter their of wondering rear; sought what shelter they

moments could And in the rubble that was Berlin, before the bombard- ment started yet once more.

Berlin, during the last fort- night of April, 1945. Berlin, a night

German doomed

city, people still existed listening to the sound of gundre in the Euburbs as the British and Allied yourself step into the picture, George points proudly to dried tanks drew nearer; to the sound

streamers of blood which trail of aircraft overhead as

after night. on all the big days like birthdown from each leech wound to pounded night after night, night days and Christmas, But don't cake like red paint on his legs..

What "Is it lilce to live in a doomed city?-to suspect to re- forget that you want everyday

I'se after years of boasting Bes, shots

and if you're keeping

Dusun ngib,

native of that the war is Irrevocably lost, a pleture biography of your

our eighteen and George at eight see even though the maniac Hitler children you'll want these often things alike, the same jokes For young children grow 50 fast, change 50 quickly, that the picture opportunities missed one week may be missed for- ever.

Naturally, you'll make snaps

-John van Gulider.

-THIS DREAM MEANS: Impossible to interpret this dream without the collaboration of the dreamer and without knowing more of his siental make-up.

In generi term, the dream suggests a distrust of mankind; and womankind: A feeling that it is predatory and everyone on the hunt: and that people generally are against you.

The predatory cata may represent your view of women-out for what Bizy can get, ngardless of the consequences. Even your pals-whom you give the wherewithal to rat

-use to attack you.

(These are one, or two of the clues that a medical psychologist would have to follow up♫

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screams orders

they

and counter-

amuse and the same pleasures orders, promises and threats

They delight.

hunt In the

from his underground shelter? Jungle together:

"Dad....

Can I

hunting with Ungib tonight?. He is go ing to call a barking deer."

"He may call one-but, what will he shoot it with?”

"A rifle--your rifle, Dad. That

Here is the truth. Here..........is, what the hounded, frightened, war-weary people in that Gor- man city felt. It is stark and

story gripping. The

is seen eyes of Joachkn German deserter from the Russian front. It is

Is we thought we'might bor- 1.

row it. May we plense?" Harry groans;

the

д

"I suppose so-but don't ruin the story of his adventures as it And stay behind it, not in his mind is awaltened at last te front!"

the utter futility. of Nazism and "Harry, do you think he ought the fuil realisation of the down- to go? He's just a child-and fall to which It has brought Ungib's a moren!"

Germany. "Ungib knows hunting, if hå He realised that democracy

moron. George'll be all had more to offer as he stazed right."

at the unforgettable panorama On the second night they get of gulied buildings and broken the deer. Another day the morals, where men lived in hunters retum with tortöltes a holes and the city crumbled du:- foot across to carry home to a ing the last foririlght of its life. menagerie which already in-

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