A British Crossword Puzzle
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6 Combat (5).
DOWN
Goes one better (4).
Lord (4).
Wickod (4).
Abandon (G).
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Duplicated (0).
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Summary (0)
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Artificial slik (5).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across Clasp, 4
Closer.
B Eluded, 10 Split, 12 Ceased, 14 Precept, 17 Lore, 19 Ottoman,
20 Release, 22 Alec, 23 Islands. 27 Grotto, 29 Prism, 30 Southe, 31 Dining, 33 Eustic. Down-- Cheap, 2 Acute, 3 Piece, 5 Loss, Seldom, 7 Rollen, 9 Deposit, 11 Pelota, 13 Attests, 15 Reel, 18 Cheere, 18 Hald, 20 itasped, 21 Legion. 24 Loose, 25 Notes, 20 Swed, 21 Omen,
dimart
THIS
του
Powoła 12h wERE FROLICKING WITH DUCKS IN A POND AND THOROUGHLY
ENJOYING IT
DREAM MEANS :
you
This dream Kugrenin
are passing through a phase of pleasure-seeking and irresponsibilty.
The water is the subconscious mind, wish- ful thinking even the codding influence of the ducks smother-love." Frolicking with epresents Indulgence in purely wishful think- Ing and pleasure-seeking: or even an escape from responsibility.
THÈ CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958.
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.
T
The poet fell
into a tub
of water
HERE is little doubt
that Thomas Gray's ' Elegy was finished in Stoka Poges churchyard, with which it is alwayя asso- ciated.
It took, however, some years
to write, and during that me, Gray
ai lived
Therefore,
other
Cambridge. churchyards
may have contributed Inspira-
THOMAS GRAY
WAS BORN BY A IKU
ON THUS SITE.
What the plaque naye,
more readily seen than at Stoke Poges.
nervous
tion for stance, Grant- chester
which Rupert (of Brooke wrote of the "peace and quiet") and "honey for tea" - where the lowing herd could boy house in Cornhill had been
• The plaque (arrowed) shows where Themas Gray lived.
THEN YOU WERE AT A DANCE WHICH WAS BEING
HOLD IN A SWIMMING
BATH
Dancing with a partner represents a love affair. This you do not take seriously, you the have no definite partner you dance in water, Le.. your aim is personal indulgence rather than shared joy.
Gray was ividual, morbidly afruid of fire.
Outside burned in 1748.
his windows at Peterhouse he put a ladder to make a quick escape, Some of the students ruised a tuse alarm, Gray shunned down we hader und fell in a tub ul water.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
NANCY SPAIN FINDS THAT
Old Congo Magic
ROYAL ACADEMY
+
DINNER
CORPSE
WASN'T
READY
Bitk
Still Works
an
HEY used to call it hurry. We should learn more. lethal atings. Well, mankind is must work hard, ent our up against it once more, this the White Man's Wo
Menace Awful Grave. Now it is shop in peace, pray to God, and time with
wait a little. Oh, we should from the Deeps. only the White Woman's work. Headache.
Yes, it is the Gold Coast of West Africa, where Mrs Bill Ryan apeart two years
husband helping her start a timber business.
to
TN the quiet parlour of the Belle Vue Hotel, Merthyr,
Imagine It. A town where lies a padded coffin, 2ft lonst highly
with bright, there is no servant problem, yei polished screws, brackets and fittinga.
the
the
Warn
Which strikes me as a pretty good message for Britain too.
Strange Hobby
Phyllis and Mike are two niec scripi-writers for a radio
net- work of the, future called E.B.C. They observe some fireballs rquirting up from the South Atlantic. Cranky Dr Bocker mukes an announcement there is a "Thing" down
that there
Ships sink, leaving no trace. The fight is on. Bocker 13 the Thing with magnetic
part
book
FAMOUS men have strange with an intelligence, determined
hobbiex Sir Winston Chur- to
to exterminate man. She describes these exolle chill and Wool Coat paint. The years in BLACK MAN'S TOWN French poot de Nerval made a pet (Cape, 158.), an autoblography of a lobster, of such charm that I-who tor
But M: David Dunn is more pooh-poohed, but
thes. years have inched at the very startling than
TRY strikes again word "Congo"—almost decided GIVING YOURSELF AWAY, urins and with high tides that to have a bash at Black Man's (Alten and Unwin, 73. 04.), swamp London.
cays he; and health and happiness
Mr Wyndliam writes with Town myself.
will be yours.
such authority that (while I Mr Dunes made his exciting was reading) he almost per- discovery 20 years ago, when he suaded me to accept his melo- It had been brought there for Where they shut off the water was traveling on the famous 21313 ramatic proposition. It is only
from 8 nm, until 7 p.m. Where Contury Express from Chicago to sheer tiresomeness on my Gray's Imidity was no doul | Wong.
Pekinese pet of
Now Youst.
that makes me wish his Due to the violence of mis ihaleleensee Jim Burns and the you may bathe in
He wondered where the east were more conclusive. four years. Gulf of Guinea un Christmas bound and westbound Centuries who treated as wite so cruvits customers for over
would pass each other, thought No doubt about it, they moaned, Day.
hat
the subject would make a rungud- Wong was done for; old age
or For the first month round taken its toll. The big
two neemt picture for the company's closed in eyes remained
Bu Ryon had no office. He advertisements.
hls wizened face. The pulse was "made do" with
the car,
IN complete contrast here is a weak and the vet had given up public enll box on the verandali, So he wrote to the company econd novel concerned with all hope.
and he met his business dates at and suggered it “with no strings the mildewed und adolescent Sadly Jim Burns told his the Paradise Bar.
attached." His whole life was theme of changed. Not only did he get a His lite is almost colouriess,gulars of the Impending demise its wie outstanding evek Deals for the pub pet, "Wong's on his | Fertunately or Bill, Francis, glow of pride and pleasure each way out-there's not a chance." the reception clerk at the Para- kne he saw the results of his Heatis disc, turned out to be the perfect impulse but he started from this his continental tour with Horace he sadly announced.
Eng shook gravely over the pints a timber clerk too. But when moment to practise giving himself Warpole, Returning land, he found his father dying, the Friends of Wong reviewed BI get his office und installed away.
the tragic situation. "We'll gel | Francis there he wasn't so lucky him a coffin and put him away with the rest of the staff, properly, they decided,
Listia sae fert !... Gray was runcated at Lion and Lambringe by s moler and mistus,
COLOURLESS LIFE
10
suja his mother inaacquilery provided for. He lived for time with his mother, inen re- turned to Cunbridge, where ad became a fellow of Peterhouse,
J
Satin Padding And so in his workshop, local funeral director John Lewis regretfully got to work on coffin for Wong-21 long, nine
boy wrote inches wide, he measured. Sight shorthand and type all kinds of padding and the best of bright
letters and aisa un a sports- intings went into it.
tsman of rare ability."
His Elegy was begun in 1742, which he WILS 26. IL wus finished about 1750, and Wal- yote st t published in following your.
It went through four editions in two months, and 11 in a sort line. Gray declined to accept pay-
ment for his poems, and he left Dosicy the publisher to take the whole income.
Gray dled at Cambridge in July, 1771: Fle was buried ut Stoke Foges in the vault con- taining his mother.
•
Adolescent theme
The happiness that's always
waiting
In
of sorrows creating-
our
OWN
NOW OR NEVER, by Mr Why. land Hilton Young (Cressel Press 109. Od.),
A
Giving away, tays Mr Durm, is the basis of really successful The typist broke the typo- living. It Improves the health.
And Mr Dunn, though fre writers, the "car boy" read seditious "The White Man Must quently unctuous, is right. Scoff
"Now or Never" concerns Go" literature; and when
they i you like. Call his idea cory,
dad sold his old ancestral home advertised for another typist, a But you will only prove that gun called Norway whose
draw you yourself are
of the
to pay for his schooling. A B world's "absorbers" who never result he has spent all his life pay anyone any compliments, fusing about the sort of person who never stand anyone a round he "might have been" 货物 of drinks or a lunch, who a
hadn't happened. through the world criticising it, who are, in fact, only half-alive,
In:
"I con
who returned
one
The Thing
Such undue haste proved too The moment much for Wong,
It seems that there is no end the lush casket was borne into
Obsessed, he revisits his old aricestral home on the eve of the inn parlour, his tired eyes to the glorious eccentricity of flickered open
und a bution nos coloured character on the Gold
bis career instance, there was sniffed disdainfully.
in the Civil Service, For the Coast-for
Otto the son of the new owner, first time in days he made a darling Joseph Armah,
19 alwo
colleague in the few faltering steps, sumcelent tu went to London and stagger towards the casket for a with a message for Africa,
TEN there is THE KRAKEN Minlay. And Otto's girl-friend
Lesicy has tho sambo sort peep inside.
He was amazed by London WAKES. (Michael Joseplij
"might have been" obsession. This was enough for Work.
the white man bus 103. Gd.), by John Wyndham Norway marries Lesley, they ho
was shops, by Within ten minules
"Sir." who has already tried to upset have a child called Sophy, For having his first full meal for driver who called him
impressed us with his "The Day of the a time they stop worrying about days-well on the road to re- And he was deeply covery. That is why a niall by the "the hard, rough work Triffids."
what might have boon and quilo padded coffin lies in the quiet that white men do with their
enjoy life. But not for long. Belle Vue, hantis." of the parlour
This boolt la exquisitely writ for is ready of the Elegy added-"The cur-Everything of maturity. I
ten, Mr Hilton-Young is endow- few tolls the knell of parting funeral that except
thered with every technical trick day."
curpse.
the novelist. necessary to
Yet his books are Just not good enough. Why not? Because ha has not yet discovered anything worth writing about,..
Either you're afraid to grow up emotional- ly or you're having your lasi Aling" before ac- oepling the responsiblitics
you're over twenty-one, It's about time, Your next few dreams will tell,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Wandy
21
HOW
SURE, I KNOW
WHERE IT
IS-I'M
GOING THAT
WAY I'LL GO
WITH YOUN
On a new bulding at 39. Cornhill, which replaces Gray's old house, there is a plaque to his memory, with the first line
That's Asking For It
a
the
"Africa," здув Mr "should not be in such
The Trimds were giant blind fruits (something like artichoke Armah, camcis) who did their best to
Big abolish mankind with
BY HARRY WEINERT
MY GOSH-
THOSE PEOPLE
WE MET LAST
SUMMER.
جندر
SHE ASKS FOR DIRECTIONS
HAVE
·AND GETS AN ESCORT
YOU
BEEN?
SIMPLY
DREADFUL-
MY BACK-
MY HEAD
MY FEET-
- ETC.
Erc
TELL THE SCHOOL LITERARY CLUB.
THEY CAN MEET AT YOUR HOUSE
THAT'S ASKING
FOR IT.
HE ASKED FOR ADVICE
-TWO HOURS AND NOWHERE
LATER.
JUST ASK'EM HOW THEY'VE BEEN
"THAT'S JUST- THE PRICE OF THE SWOONY
HAT I SAW!
CONA, INTE BY GENERAL PEATURES
COU, TH. WORLD BEWITS RESERVED
THE HUSBAND WHO MENTIONED HE WON IN THE WEEKLY CARD GAME
INVITE A GUEST TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
WHICH REMINDS
ME
THE EXPERT“
"OH DEAR! "WHAT'S "THEIR
NAME ?"
ནཱ
SHE ASKED FOR IT WHEN SHE SAID "COME SEE US SOMETIME
IT'S A GOOD THING
YOU ASKED
ME-YOU
WERE
WAY OFF.
"
BUT THAT ISN'T WHERE
I WANT TO
GO
PLAN A MOTOR TRIP— BUT DON'T O GET LOST BEFORE YOU START.
New to the game
FINALLY there is a
murder
story by a writer new to the dear 'old game of skimming the cream on crime, Mr Guy Romsey. Mr Ramsey has imagined a nice little STOF PRESS MURDER (Dokers, · 10x. Gd.) which all takes place in a Retional national daily news- paper called the Clarion.
Mr Ramsey has some wonder- ful characters. There is Dizia, the rather grubby Queen of the Ciarion who smells of gin, ex- pensive scent, and tobacco, and pnenes other people's stories. She is the victim, found skower- ed
en a copy spike in the editor's office.
Then there are the suspects ... bespectacled Joan Waro, junior reporter; "Gabby" Jones, the Cabinet Minister who gives away Budget secrets:
Garland, the news editor: Celandine, the editor's secretary—all of whom would love to murder Dina, 'all
have of whom
amplo oppor tunity,
But how on earth Mr Ramsey thinks his fictional paper will continue
to pay 0 dividend with a news editor who finds a .... corpse at 1240 a.m. and makes no sort of attempt to get it on the front page, I can't imagine.
- A quick flip
along the shelves
VIDOCQ. PICABOON. OF CRIME, John Phillp Steed (Staples, 12. Gd.), This Las- cinating convict turned police- man founded the Paris Surete and the first private detective agency, frequently read his own obituary, loved many ladies, eventually died aged 105;_Story amazing. Style florid:
THE · ·HONEY.", SIEGE, C11 Buhot (Cape, 128, d.). Who pinched the honey of the school- master? Was it his son add his "school_chums?" "No," they say,
and shut themselves
the
Norman krop., Not ever no
the.
pompiers can get them what? So another French author 'takes the most coveted" British cash prize of the month--Book "Society choice.
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