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1 Accident (0).

5 Boy (5).

8 Fruit (4),

9 Precious metsi (0).

11 Internal (5).

12 Fate (8).

14 Hoist (4).

16 Letting contract (5).

Residence (5)..

18 Relate (4).

20 Expand (6).

24 Riscal (5).

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20 Scurries (4).

27 Fops (U.S. slang) (5).

28 Feels (0),"

DOWN:

1 Meditate (4).

2 Material (4).

Mammals (4)..

4 Allow (0).

Fragile (7),

Common (7),

7 Slays (1).

10 Bright (5).

13 Provided for (7).

14 Lolled (7)

15 Biba (7).

1 Best part (5).

19 Claws (0),

91 Church rezesa (4).

22 Finishes (4).

23 Pocs (44).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD; Across: 1 Boips, 4 Mirror,

A Limeer, 10 Impel, 12 Lessee, 14 Chortle, 17 Tale, 19 Averted, PO Dispute, 22 Alto 23 Brasing. 27 Arises, 29 Parts, 30 Dinner, 31 Resist. 32 Errie, Down: 1 Relle, 2 Manno 3 Smell 3 Iris, . Repeat, Rolled, 9 Relates, 11 Metres, 13 Severed, 15 Hail, 10 Report, 18 Lean. 20 Dapper, 21 Starts, 24 Aside, 25 Iner. 26 Corgo, 28 19's.

YOU SAW A BULL AND A DONKEY FIGHTING THE BULL STRUCK THE DONKEY IN THE THROAT WITH ITS HORNS

THIS

DREAM

MEANS:

Animals you now know-usually sym- bolise emotions and Instincts that you have re- pressed. The bull stands for something strong, donkey aggressive, Impulsive, masculine: the traditionally represents stupidity.

Neither emotion wins: both are frustrated: both retreat' spain Inio the deplins of your

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1953.

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT A Book to Talk About... By Milton Shulman

Jailed poet

filled his cell

with flowers

W. HUT

VHILE Jemts Henry Leigh the essayist, critic and poet, was associated with the newspaper the Examiner in 1812 another paper published a eulogy of the Prince Regent.

So BRITISH JUSTICE ISN'T

GOOD ENOUGH FOR DR CRONIN

-N

>

who

His story is concerned with and Humphrey Bogart, *The his novel

Written with 'one eye; fixed an

the 20-year-old Paul Mathury, who needs his conviction to further Citadel" A. J. Crouin the best-seller, lists and

the fim discovers that the date he

father he his political ambitions, other cocked towards

There Is Inspector Swann, caso, who tered mud over the shining necessarily been very limited in for life for the murder of a in charge of the brass plates of Harley other directions. He has been prostitute. Remembering the way overheats key witnesses admil- Street. Recause he was particularly short-sighted about his dad used to sall paper boats, ting their evidence is perjured, Paul zots out to right what he but is warned to keep quiet. doctor it was assumed that the truth.

feels must be a miscarriage of Overcome with remorse he gets he knew what he was talk-

drunk, snarls up Wortley's traffic House in Upper Cheyne Rowing about.

while on point-duty, and is dis- missed from the force. where Leigh Bust lived.

There is too, the most in-

pre.

credible trial since Gilbert and Sullivan in which

nelther the

Commeated the Examiner... "This Adonis in loveliness is a corpulent man of fifty. In

Already serialised in o mass Justice. thort, this delightful, bitesful,

circulation American magazino wise, honourable, virtuous,

truc

He soon learns that the town and chosen as a book of the linmortal prince und

was ེ་

There is no such

month, "Beyond This Place of Wortley has bubbling beneath violator of his word, & libertine

the punishment would be, re-aumption in his favour in will reassure millions of Amori its inoffensive surface an ugly over head and cars in disgrace, mitted.

his. latest book, "Beyond cans that the Britich Judicial row of perjured witnessts, cer-

Judge nor counsel for the de- a despiser of domestle tles, the

Both refused. John went to This Place," which has system has been moulded by rupt oMelals, stupid Judges, ruth-

and companion of gamblers, a man

nes: leka lawyers, Hollywood's

conniving ence bothtra to inquire into the who has just closed half a cen- Clerkenwell and Leigh to Suirey just been published in the

traditions.

police. Ignorance, ambition, "and inost obvious and glaring ques- United States. --- IL - ls --

Bind Paul's los. Jury without one single claim gooi.

evil conspire 10-

guilty Setting up his literary, X-ray, father wrongfully the gratitude of his country,

shrill, sensational attack on or the respect of posterity."

the machinery. of British in the Midlands town of Worl

ley, Dr Cronin examines the justice. It' proves how unmanner in which an Englishsou

There is Sir Maithew Sprott, y De Cronin's equally careless reliable doctors can be away

tried for murder. Nearly the prosecuting counsel, some disregard of the most elemen='. from their stethoscopes.

everything he sees is mollguant. thing between Serjeant Buzfuz tary facts about British judicial

WAS

A proscention followed. Hunt and his brother who was partner in the Exuminer, were sen- convicted and ench tenced by Lord Ellenborough to

in yours! imprisonment

a line of separate gaols,, and

£600 each. They were told that from they would abstain Further attacks on the Regent,

11

Lec

LEIGH HUNT

1784-1859 Essayist &Poet: Lived Here

the words on the plaque,

EVENTUALLY BOTH LAY DOWN TO DIE, THEN THEIR HOOFS BECAME HANDS AND, DREW A CLOTH FROM NOWHERE TO COVER THEMSELVES

them-

subconselous, L., draw the cloth over selves.

Hoofs turning into hands (which are human) suggests it is your conscious mind that deliberately repressen these emotions back in- to the depths.

con- The dream doesn't reveal what the

પ્રવ flct is about: It does suggest you would beller to strike a balance between these emo- thens and your conscience: If you merely re- prees them, they will bob up again.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"TRAFFIC-TICKET?

FORGET ABOUT IT". "

"I'LL COME, TO.

SEE YOU ON

VISITING

DAYS,

DEAR.

THE LAD WHO CAN FIX EVERYTHING

BUT GOOD.

'HOW ABOUT TOSSIN' A FEW PAL ? “

YOU WILL NEVER

RELAX WITH

THIS GUY

NEXT DOOR.

18

Leigh was in delicate health, but cheerful. He had his prison walls papered with a treills of roses, the ceiling painted with cell and the sky and clouds, filled with flowers,

The decision to go to gaol Was typical of Leigh Hunt's courage, in the Exuminer he at- fektet all the abuses of 10:

and spared no one who day, deserved censure,

Hunt censed to cdit the Examiner 1821, but continued to work

an essays, poems and sketches. Ils prose works, many

some

of

murder,

FORD WANTS CONGRESS

SO CONGRESSMEN ARE

New York. Ford Foundation, the charitable and educational

of them dealing with London THE and Landon memeries, are volu~! rainous. He was a friend of fund founded in memory of the your writers, and helped both late Shelley and Keats.

Hey Ford, allotted 15,000,000 dollars (£5,357,000) for an investigation of "elvi rlhts and compressional com- Imiliter procedurës,"

Now rate Congressmen have

The For to inycatigate Hunt was born in 1784, and voted went to Christ's Hospital School. Foundation (among others) to His recollections of his school-ree if it is money for "un days and schoolmates occupy of American and subversive activi- large portion of his Autobiotics, political purposes, propa- trophy,

ganda, attempts to Influence It gislation.."

He describes himself By an "ultra-sympathising and timid boy." He was horrified by the rashing system then in vogue and

persecuted by the other boys until he finally se

a bully, with whom he about afterwards became friendly.

Was

There was a time between 1834

and 1840 when Hunt was in perpetual difficulties. On more han one occasion he was with- out food. He tried to sell his books, and not too

500n his his to personal friends railled help. A pension of £200 a year was settled on him, and Charles Dickens, assisted by a company of amateur comedians, gave per- formances for his benefit,

He died on August 28, 1859, A plaque was put up at one of his homes, 22, Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsen.

UST before he took over the

presidency

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

commander. Six more steps up officer, to the rank of lieutenant

the ladder and he will be Ad- mirul Nelson.

1

nte

PROBE ANGRY

Now It is widespread.

of

Andi thie kind of spaliod·· gramatisation supplemented

and

procedure.

Irresponsibility

TIS reconstruction of a 'hear-

H'S

ing before a British Court'

of Criminal Appent la a reckless plunge Into criminal Irrespon- xibility. He has lords of appeal sitting where they would

never Lord Chlef elt, he mixes up the Justice with the Lord Justice likely to grow worse with the Just

General, he

functiona invents Intrailuction of jet planes,

1ste the "instructing Crown LIVIA TWINING. 10-yearAgent." he produces witnessca OLIVI

ol old dughter General where only documents would be Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief used, he talks of a sentence of of Stoff, has been chosen "Mise

death being "committed" to Airpower of 1953,"

penal servitude when he means GRRLIFTED by the 3,000-a-commuted."

death toll..... on And he concocts

fcarzonte America's roads, President menacing,

H

R black, British

decided at a White House meet for life and never allowed any YN shiny new ears, 25 British Elsenhower and 30 civic leaders prison where men are locked up 50 much "They ing to call a convention of about visitors. Seldum has

2008 safety-minded people in nonsense Igulted so much moral' Washington early next year to indignation.

The only excuse that one can offer for this display of ignor- tackle the problem. TEMUS BRIGHT, the Baiti- once by a presumably respon

more car dealer, who dissible author is the fact that Dr played a stone statue of Senator Cronin has not spent much time Joseph McCarthy, has been sued

in Britain of late. for more than £3,000 by his

recretaries, 42,000 "housewives."

et dels vir training whizzing about Detroit

re visiting motor-car works, a drive-in cinema, and sitysera- pers with their hosts cales of The U.S. Civil Air Patrol.

out of every General Eisen-EVENTEEN howe parted from his 30-year-

Americans took some old son Major John Eisenhower kind of trip abroad in the first in Korea, and said to hun:---

rix months of this year, says "In time could learn to beur if you were killed. But don't

the Passport Office.

Twenty-three thousand voy let them take you prisoner.

listed themselves "If they held you I don't pers think I could carry on with the hotthand-typists, even travelled n must now lake up." heavy jou

is safe and un- Maler John aimed today in Koren. REPLICAS of the Queen's cially: "gold kid with open rose

ith world, window medalion edged with

NOISE jewels on the toe and rubles on the high slender heel") are on Walter A. Rosenblith thinks display at the Waldorf Astoria. the cars of America's workers

bo Duplicates will be sold in shops should protected. Noise

induced deafness; he says, used the country over. THE U.S. Navy has promoted to be in problem only areng

45 - year old Lieutenant few craftsmen such as boiler Dennis Nelson, is zenfor Negro makers and forgers.

It was easier for a girl ta Bnd romance on her bollday than a men for

Coronation slipper (om man. There were 70

75 every women sezing the

The Folks Next Door

A NEW NUMBER.

WHAT ODD FURNITURE

NEXT DOOR.

CAN CAUSE A LOT OF CONFUSION.

S-3/

COPS, 146

BENSRAL FEATURES

COST. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED

SORRY, OLD

MAN / I'M ON

A DIET.

WHAT IS IT

CHARCOAL

SANDWICH ?"

"ONLY FOURTEEN MILES

THE OUTDOOR

CHEF

ON A GALLON ?.

WHY I

GET ETC.

ETC:

THE ONES WHO ALWAYS OWN THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.

expert

Professor

Hoving given up his medicat Press agent Douglass Hall-Who practice to make a fortune out says the unusual and novel of novels like "Hatter's Castle," Idea of the statue was his. He The Stars Look Down," and accuses Bright of not paying him "The Citadel," he sailed to for his publicity work.

America in July 1939, where his · CHICAGO hotel ballroom work could be given more lucra has been booked for May, 2.tive attention.

and Mr Alan 1070, by Mr Attheimer so they can celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary there.

Melodrama

He did not return until Sep- tember 1945, and thus missed I postmaster was not stump- the fears in which the British

·ed for a moment by the In-learned to be proudest of their correct address: Cows Comer conceptions of truth and justice. Marblehead, Massachusetts He Since then his visits have been sent it to a man of the inter- sporadic and short.

Less forgivable, however, than section for Jersey and Guernsey Streets.

is his his synthetic moralising bad

"Beyond This writing. Place" reada ko a: Victorian melodrama

with the hero plung- ing offstage with his forearm before

his сусв.

BY HARRY WEINERT

YOU CAN FOIL THE CANDID CAMERA,

FIEND

BY MOVING FAR AWAY.

CHECKING IN THE NEW NEIGHBORS

'LOOKS LIKE YOU

WILL HAVE

MORE THAN YOU CAN

USE.*

+

PLANTING

A FEW GENTLE

HINTS.

A good parlour game could be played out of the eliches that riddle almost every page. To what does man sink? What do familiarity-breed? — No 7-no, how many times, no? What la of human kindness? What do you not touch things with? Answers: Depths of human degradation, contempt, a thousand, the milit and a barge pole.

A confession

AND the hero goes through the A most exhausting physical experiences since Marathon. His scalp contracts and his chest Hightens so often it is a wonder there is anything left of him by the book's end. And his heart? It sinks like lead, it turns over with a

a joyful throb. It nearly breaks, It beats with suffocating violence, it pounds like sledgehammer. It goes through sheer hell.

4.

Dr Crouin once confessed that after writing his first novel ho asked himself "Have 1 written this awful, this incredibly awful nonsense?" That was almost 20 years ago. I duro him to usk it again.

LIBRARY LIST

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• THE RETREAT.”“ By P. IL Newby, Caper 1280d; 233 pares. Novai. Keith, RAF pilot ovacuated from Dunkirk, be comes a deserter, and the lover of a friend's wife. But low will the two lovers escape from what each of them soon realises has been a blunder? Vegan

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