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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

Resist (0),

1

4 Banal (5).

7 Compel (8).

B Undergrowth (5).

10 Fruit (4),

12 Portend (7).

10 Stalk (4).

10 Wish for eagerly (5).

15 Tooth (5),

24

26

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DOWN

Teranted (8). Suppases (8).

Dircharge (4).

Nooks (8).

Walk helly (0).

12 Steps (3).

Misuke (6).

Fabulous creatures (8).

17 Uniform (4),

13 ore witness (8).

20 Bundle if decumt: (7)

Tome (8).

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21 Prophet (4).

Account (4).

23 Entices (5).

24 Firearm (0).

.25 Stop (5).

28 Avolds (6)..

YESTERDAY'S

11. Precious stunes (8).

CROSSWORD Across: 3 Dastards, B Rustic, 9 Anussing, 11 Sediment, 12 Fine, 13 Antic, 18 Daily, 10 Trip, 22 Dilatory, 24 Itadiator, 25 Regal, 20 Speckled. Down: 1 Drosu, 2 Aside, 3 Dit mond, 4 Acme, 5 Test, Raisin, 7 Sugged, 10 Anvil, 14 Tacii, 15 Cleared, 10 Starts, 17 Riddle, 20 Nainad, 21 Cycle, 22 Bark, 23 Lore.

MORTU

AS YOU WALKED

UP A HILL YOU SAW A BUILDING- OVER THE DOOR WAS THE WORD "MORTUARY== YOU-WENT IN

Armand Peste blis

THIS DREAM" MEANS :

Embedded in every man's mind are three major fears: when you come to terms with all three, you will have achieved that rare thing: complete mental and perhaps spiritumi — maturity.

of fear in your mind- is fear of uncontrolled

The top layer neprest the surface

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1958.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD Just a shy little girl, this Borgia.

With a backlighted shot, such as thie, the use of a flash bulb to supplement the outdoor lighting helps brighten the shadows on subject's face.

M°

Flash in Daylight

THE MARRIAGE AT FER- RARA, By Simon Harcourt- Smith. Murray, 211, 286 pages.

HE marriage is that of Lucrezia Borgia, her third. The book describes the gorgeous ceremony and the domesticity that follow ed it.

It may be acknowledged that the married life of Lucrezia is not the most in- teresting thing about her..

To the apologist for Lucre zia's behaviour several lines of defence are open: 4

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

turn back to some of the in- merey rather than justice; eldents in her life; it so, be longs to fiction rather than wilderment may well be added tory.

example,

be

his-

he to make of Cesare's bon- to pity. What, for. quel on the ove of All Saints THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF Day, when 30 naked prostitutes SENATOR VANDENBERG. paraded? The Pope's "warm Edited by A. H. Vanden- Homeric laughter" rang out,

barg jr. Gollancz, 25x. 599 bor and Lucrezia, overcoming

pagos. natural shyness, presented prizes to the contestants.

Vatican

ference, according to the Van- denbard Papers Attinge Governinient surrendcrar, Ho velo which Churchill had secured. With It went the far- reaching influence in world at- the just prizo of her telentie: fairs which Brilah had Won w

supremacy. At the same Ume, the question of exchange of atomic Information was ibrid fled," whatever that may meanza

Two months later, thanks to Vandenberg, the Marshall Plan, want through Congress. Were the Marshall dollars the price. pali to Attlee and his Socidifst

Divorced from her first hus- QURIED in the heart of this Cabinet for their surrender of

D fat, full book is an the velor.. band on the ground of his Im-

The connection between the potence, although his first wife catonishing disclosure. had died in child-birth, Lucre

It relates to a secret agree two trancactions clearly im ria had the satisfaction of hear men; mode during the war, by piled In the Vandenburg ing herself publicly

to Papers, although, itulah not. "The "moral "climate of the a virgin in the wateronounced which Itcosevelt conceded

Churchill a veto over America's specifically calablished But age was responsible. The Bor- me when she was six months

use of the atom bomb.

obylously, a muttor of such. glas were no worse, than many none with child by a hand-

grave

Importance cannot be left of their contemporaries.

rome young oficial, Pedro Caldes. Senaibility did Lucrezia's home environment provent her from making was unlikely to bring out the admirable speech in Latin best in a girl,

the ceremony.

•

against

Pope of the strictest

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not

a

The late Senator Vandenberg, in its present state of Hloub United States Repubilean politi A full account is required; prgar clan and newspaper proprietor, ferably in Parliament.. prefer- at stumbled on the agreement In ably from Mr Attlee.

1947 when ho was chairman of the

Foreign

In the meantime, -we should Senate powerful

*** hear. less of the shrill-Sociaugi Relations Committee.

In the late spring of that year, warnings that the American

warmongers may precipitate

a third world war by pro

Heredity, too, was her; her genial father, Alexander VI, inventor

he and his associates found Angelus, was not the

and that Church!!!

Roosevelt of 'moralists.

A few days before the birth had agreed on a full-exchange ture use of the alom She was the victim of others of Lucrezia's child by Caldes, of information on atom TORE and more people brighten the shadow areas when

it seems, free to They are, bomb than herself, -iba unfortunate seem to be curious urang people. Suppose, for less scrupulous

father wn research. Men ilke

the bomb only because a Bet Vanden example, you're shooting Hire.g. her brother Cesare found dead in the Tiber.

Ish Socialist government gay. Harg resented this and tried by them that right.. Or sold flash | concerning.

photo- wearing a wide-brimmed hat; he, too, should not be judged had stood in the way of

all possible means to persuade graphy outdoors, inquiring flesh will help you, for it will too harshly: he rarely murder- matrimonial ambitions Cesare

arca normally ed anybody Bavo. for some had formed for his sister It exchange agreement meant less theswelves and others that the into the why and when of brighten

is hard," says Harcourt-Smith. than its words scented to signi-

Iy.

the

the

using Hash in sunlight. shafed by the hat urin. Similarly weighty political motive.

It may be of use when you are Most of the stories told about "to see what Cesare could have

Press photographers often And use flash this way. more and more cameras to day are equipped with built flash synchronisation, Even box-type cameras.

The reason for using flash out- doors in daytime, of course, is to

in

INSIDE WERE THREE BODIES AND THE CENTRE ONE WAS

YOURSELF

sex, and what it may make you to: a domi- nant fear, this, in the earlier part of your life. Peel off the top layer and the next' is fear of your uncontrolled hate and the guilt that re- sulis: this comes later when life brings frus« tration, competition and antagonism to others or the opposite sex.

of death, and in Thirdly comes the fear this dream it is this fear that has come to the surface.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

LOOK WHAT THE NEIGHBORS THREW

AWAY-SCRUNCHY, EH?“

IT'S HOPELESS THROWING AWAY "THE.

OLD JUNK WHEN YOU HAVE A.

RETRIEVER IN THE FAMILY.

"YOU'LL HAVE

-TO'GET YOUR

OWN DINNER,

I CAN'T STOP

NOW AS

THE BIG

HELP

Lucrezia and her family are a done but get rid of the young

rate, nuisance.” pack of lles, or at any unproved.

does

When Lucrezia's second hus- among, hand, slipped and fell in

the

But another Aspect of secret agreement

the

Churchill Roosevelt went much further

MACAULAY:

CAAY

Proso and Pootry. Selected.by C. Mj Young. Rupert Hart-Dayle,” 26s. 864 pages.

baby in his pram. Picturing a

light from the bulb will reach right in under the carriage

Simon Harcourt-Smith topi

and choose However, it's wise to remember not pick

and was even more starding. MACAULAY had read every! things when making shots of these arguments: in his warm- Valicon and died of haemorr On behalf of Britain, Churchill thing and forgotten noth two this sort. You must work at hearted way, he adopts the lot huge, many ruspicious persons had been given the right to ing. He could recite the lat

that Cesare fairly close range, cay five to The weakness of this approach conclutied ten feet, since the light of a flash is readily apparent. If so many found a still more eligible hus prohibit the Americans from Archbishops of Canterbury back

wards; swore thøl it all.copies bulb will not be effective over a defences are needed, the sua- band for his sister. And, al using the bomb.

of Paradise Lost' were destroyi great distance.

nce. And you'llpicion is that none of them is though Lucrezia exasperated This was a staggering blow ed he could restore the text want to use different exposure

ure very impressive.

very

thun for dash shoto at night;| otherwise the background of your picture will go black; it will look like a night shot,

A good general rule to follow

Historien A more censorious for

sort is 10

|of the exposures of this

Borglas has writler, set the camera just as you would "The instrument which won

had

and

her father by her tears, she to Vandenberg. He was an- recovered sufficiently 10 marry xious to keep atomiq informa- Born 1800, he was a grand Alfonce d'Es'e, mad on arul-

tion from the British. Ife would son of the Scottish manse, soa lery, liable to walk the streets have liked to discourage Bel- of an evangelical London mer- naked, with a drawn sworti.

fain from "duplicaling Ameri: chant who devoted-his-life to ca's stain bomb research. No the abolition of slavery wonder that he regarded the lost all his money, Aged seven British velo

03 "astounding the prodigious little Macaulay. and "unthinkable,"

at work on a way

a Compendium of Universal History, atract convert the People of Travancore to Christianity, an eple on his family's fortune and a sarles of evangellcat :hymins, be which he composed during at breakfast,

16-10

15

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Ar-

to

On the durker question Lucrezia's alleged incest with father, if you were making the shat by Luerezin the sinister glory of her brother and her

13 Harcourt-Smith's Judgment This her reign in Rome was sunlight, using no flash.

nune equivocal. He points out, that, high-other than her own body," glves good exposure for Hights, background areas, or the Harcourt-Smith paints a very as might be expected, there

no proof. He puzzles Over n sky-parts of your picture upon different picture, that ot д

child, declared by which the flesh has little or no pre

one papal conventional ball to be Cesare's and by an- noprelly, shy,

He decided that it must zirl: "brimming over with ten other to be the Pope's. effect.

There abolished at all costs and rather than use the sibility, longing to love and to reason to think it was Lucre the first possible minute. The naked Bash bulb at full strength, be loved"; for from happy; "by zla's, perhaps by Pedro Caldes, minute was

Then

not long in

By sherr ability, he gotYW 100 affectionate, by drape a while handkerchief over nature

riving.

fellowship from Cambridge, Thá your flash reflector. This will character too far removed from Then he falls back on The

Jab from the Tarles, and ashfo cut the light by half. As a the shabbiness of ordinary exis- climate of the age which, "en Attlee's Government, wanted. Porilamentary. Grat from the

Ald, result, you'll have sufficient Bash tence"; annoying her father by the whole, may have regarded Marshall

Vandenberg Whigs. He had կ Altering i Ilumination brighten the inordinately weeping,

no incest

more indulgently than mode it clear that he would hốt career in the House of

Cóm her we. shadows without making your better reason than that

suppori ald for Britain unless mons and was the

greatest was picture

Britain's appear.

unnaturally husband (to whom the

-bomb

veto was talker in London society Ho learned, des'royed. Without his support was immensely are actually devoted) had been murdered by bright. What you

dislike by Boing, of course, is striking a her brother (to whom the was high-coloured, slow-moving; ex- in 'Congress, there could be no rival conversationallala,

hibits mastery of moral Marshall Ald. balance between the sunlight and even more devoted).

Touched by

"pathetic understatement, is uncertain the artifcial light.

charm" of this unfortunate in judgment and. zometimes, In January 1948 he triumph- -John van Guilder

young woman, the reader may shaky in spelling: leany lo ed. Al a Washington con

"GOSH, ALL MY

GRANDMOTHER HAD WAS A BUCKET OF HOT WATER

AND A 'CAKE OF YELLOW

SOAR

Lo

the

Spring Cleaning

OH YEAH-DON'T

FORGET SHE

HAD YOUR

GRAND-

FATHER/

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for

The

narrative

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BY HARRY WEINERT

WHAT DID YOU'

USE, A FLY-SWATTER ?`

"NOTHING

TO IT

800

Given a well-paid post on the Supreme Council of Thain.. he insisted the Indians should have an English education.'

"WHERE IS TODAYS:

PAPER ?

એચ

"OH DEAR, I THINK

I USED IT: "TO, WRAP DISHES I'M STORING

SPRING CLEANING HEADAC

NO NEWS-

HE SPENDS THREE MINUTES PAINTING AND

SHE SPENDS THREE HOURS CLEANING

UP THE MESS.

WHY CLEAN ? IT ONLY GETS DIRTY

AGAIN

"SPRING" CLEANING ? "I'M ALL THROUGH — MY HUSBAND DID IT, HE THINKS IT'S GOOD EXERCISE

"WHY EAT? YOU ONLY GET HUNGRY AGAIN.”“”

ALL'S WELL THAT

ENDS WELL.

Ite'urning to Britain, hortat In the House for Edinburgh. but was thrown out-for-imprus dently supporting a duty fun whisky. It proved to be the most fortunate event in his site, for it gave him time to write his major work, the History of England, which had an un paralleled popular, success, vīn; the United States alone, ona pirated edition : soldim:200,000. coples....

For the first Ume since his father's financial disaster, Madbalay was afflučite, Edine, burgh humbly invited him to return as lis Member, of Par- llament.

war Awo RJO

Ho never married; was prob- ably never in love," Haïolwas devoted in affection to his fami→ ly, especially to two sisters and their children. Hosked Quakers ("vilest, fullest @ most absurd

of sects"); church collections, his writers, paclists.*

Disraeli,

fellow-

Even those why most admir- ed Macaulay's talk sometimes had too much of 'lt.yrds Book of 884 pages, handsomely bound In blue buckram, in probably as much as this ako needil bi Macaulay's brisk, magniloquent wrling, and more thar most people require-as-a-sample of on outmoded stylo which EXTEN beat is both vivid and excitingĮ,

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