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"1 guessed he

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McCarthy man when he

asked me if i was animal, vegetable or un-American."

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1954.-

Hemingway's Advance On Paris PARADE

ERNEST HEMINGWAY.' By'

Philip Young. Ball, 12. 68. 244 pages.

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From that moment it was American female," He has been. cleor what kind of writer he married four Umes, each time would grow up to be. The kind to an American.

writer who liked bull- Botween the wars, this rost- Aghters, disliked generals-and

les, open-air figure played HEN Ernest Millor dreamt of being a general..

hard "Flow men have been able The kind of author who to stand the strain of relaxing Hemingway was a writes at 14st, 121b. (and fight with Hemingway for long," said small boy, his at 10lb. lighter); who has been Domon Rungu), worked hard

through both mother, who sang shot, in combat,

KITTOR feet, both knees, both Congregational

He evolved (from the Old both hands, plus six times ini Church, Oak Park, Chicago, the hood, Battle honours Tortament, Mark Twain, and

strange American

woman, gave him a 'cello. But his

(Gertrude Stein), a way of writ father, a big, bearded doc- tor, who liked fishing, gave him X shot-gun. preferred the gun.

in

First

Ernest

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clude two bronze medals, one aluminium

silver medal, one kneecap.

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This wat to write novels of despairing, violent world, Waste Land smelling of cordite;

by George Malcolm Thomson

that

repetitive, deceptively might be BOMLO connection simple, a klid of controlled and between Mies Chudleigh's pass- purposeful maundering, which for for him and the fact exactly suited what he wanted he was heir to his brother, the

do.

Earl of Bristol, who, by a coin- cidence,

then at death's Wax door.

The

marriage

place, to express a novel, bitter ro in a tiny church in the

grounds of Lainston Ново romantic near Salisbury, The bridegroom loft for his ship; the bride resumed her duties Maid of Honour. And the Earl of Bristol recovered.

This one-man Casualty lat was surprised in his first cam prign (Italian Front, First to World

Wor)

ind himself afraid. By the tin. the Second War came he had trained him- self to be completely, drama- tically fearless, One theory that he had written the fear out of his system. By that time, he had also outlived an embarTUSE-

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ing resemblance to Clark Gable which brought him offers of Hollywood parts.

Invading Europe

BA war

Not one of his staing a heroine who is

manticism, navela

Look

08

When the Duke of Kingston

it

about visit Belinin

to be on

'to

over forty-fives,' 5ft. 2.1in,-

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died, leaving his money to his WELL, WHAT Americans group la 8ft. 3.1in, that of the "wife," a dainherited nephew D'YA KNOW proved to the satisfaction of the House of Lords that her second have been warned marriage had been bigamous; guard against four races to be NIX Women belonging to the Druze tribean Arub PIX which included met with in the country. the penalty for

Christian sect with secret branding.

But Elizabeth's luck held. The The SCOTS, who keep the photographs affixed to

They were described like this; rites --need not have their thbir Earl of Bristol dled. If she was Sabbath and anything else they identity cards, the Israel Gov not Duchess of Kingston, followed infallibly that she was can lay hands on; the WELSH, ernment has decided.

and ga According to the tenets of the now Countess of Bristol. And a who pray on their knees

the IRISH, Druze faith, no their neighbours; poerens could not be branded

She reftred to a life of de- who don't know what the devil have her photograph token.

they want, but who are willing bauchery on the Continent.

to die for it, and the ENGLISH, who consider themselves self- DUCKS

Twenty-four made men and worship their ANSWERED ducks who an Creator."

By cr to NAMES

-their names have been presented to the Bristol

In fairness to her husband this deplorable union did Augustus, it must be said that not unduly damp his spirits or

duties at sen,

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The bombs will be sold scrap metal. But there's a atch. Buyer's will have to pay Jerman, customs duty.

woman may

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affect his zeal for his patriotic EXPORT For Sale: One hun Corporation. They come

dred unexploded Bri- the house, at the village of DRIVE? He was a bold commander, a

of Men tish bombs recovered Winscombe,

Joyce man of strong opinions and a

wife salvage crews on ticketts,

of a by German

Bristol violent partison Admiral

of

Hellgoland, German island

in businessman who is moving to Byng (who had put him in the the North Sea.

Bristol. way of 29,000 of prize money) Years followed during which

whom that unfortunate officer Augustus paused occasionally in

was tried and condemned for his pursuit of Italian countesses, falling to beat the French. But, princesses, duchares,

although ho the wife

writes vigorously

whom had 髓 particular partiality) to be "very much displeased with many things I hear of Miss Chudleigh's duct," and at last to take a resolution of never having any more to do in that affair."

more than a pliant doll.

Philip Young is a critic who conducts the most interesting and acute inspection to date of an author who thinks critics have an actively pernicious in- fluence on writers.

Now a legendary figure, Hem- way found himself attached to his blood-pressure with pills and correspondent (1944), Heming Ingway dwells in Cubs, tending of a Doge, Portuguese mins (for of naval matters, Hervey brings |

giving the young advice on life, love a literature. Advice on Hieratu

everything, so you'll know what you have to beat

nam-

the army of Patton, a boyant, gun-toting general, kind of Hemingway who did not write. Disliking this rival com- mander, Hemingway disengaged his forces and, in alliance with another American army, vanced on Paris.

od..

At one moment Task Force Hemingway was 62 miles ahead of more cautious units and its leader was demanding tank sup- port. always keep a pin in the map for old Ernie," said the divisional commander.

Old Ernie imposed his author- Ity on 200 French irregulars, innocent youths who believed that nobody under the rank of

general would have an aide de camp, personal relations officer, cook, photographer, driver and special liquor ration

At the head of these troopa, Hemingway liberated the RIS Hotel in the Place Vendore. Said one of his French suntries to a late-comer: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cel- Jar, You go up quick," Papa who had

grown beard to go with his favourite nickname barely escaped court martial after this exploit: gut a medal instead.

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After the WET, having been? saved from death by 10 million units of penicilin, he wrote a (bad) novel, Across the River and Into the Troes, about general who dies.

hening

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13 A champion deep-sea fisher- nan, a variety of roseflsh has been named after him. He is erudite on navigation, military history reizenghters and bull

dillo

Ольсе ho elaborately and cloquently denounced "the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"COULDNT WE RETURN,

SOME OF THEIR

THINGS FOR CASH,

TO PAY FOR

SOME OF OUR

THINGS WE

BOUGHT FOR

THEM ?"

NOTHING BUT BILLS —AND BRILLIANT IDEAS.

I DIDN'T HAVE TO RETURN

A THING THIS YEAR /

میس

"DIDN'T YOU GET ANYTHING?

"NO`RETURN' ON

THESE EMPTIES

-THEY'RE

THROW- AWAYS

"Rend

Among other things, they have to beat Arst-famous, still- best Hemingway novel, Fare- well to Arms.

Casanova Went To Sea AUGUSTUS HERVEY'S JOURNAL. Kimber. 25s. 349 pagen. PAUSE before you condemn

too harshly the dissolute life to which Augustus Hervey con- ferses in his "journal,

Pause and consider tho

which

а young little

money

marital misfortunes into he was plunged man with no sense, Whig principles and desire to win glory in the naval service of his country.

He was 20, a lieutenant, about to sail for the West Indies, when at Winchester Races: one

day in 1744, he met the undeni- ably beautiful Miss Elizabeth Chudleigh, orphan of a former Governor of Chelsea Hospital ant Mald of Honour to the Princess of Wales.

ho

dress

coa

wak

About this time Miss Chud- leigh had appeare Al the Venetian Ambassador's ball at Somerset House In a state of decolletee so

so advanced that sharp-toned witness wrote,

Mi Chudleigh's remarkable. She was Iphigenia for the sacrifice, but so naked that the high priest might easily inspect the entrall: of

the victim. The Malds of Honour (not of molds the strictest) 20 offended hey would were not speak to her."

tin-

At Winscombe, Mrs Ricketts * had a lake and reared the ducks 80 that they became tame enough to waddle in and out of the house. On giving up her Mrs Ricketts realised house that the ducks were too tame to survive in a wild state

and so offered them to the Corporation, who sent a van for them.

The German Government lists even more vivacity, enjoyment --and shamelessness to bear the bombs as "scrap metal of on his adventures on land.

foreign origin.". Harvey's journal is the varnished story of a young man with more spirit than morals; a kind of minor Casanova in a naval uniform.

LIBRARY LIST

FIGURE To dumpy girls who Mrs Ricketts stood at the FACTS

fret because they water's edge and summoned the don't measure up to flock one by one. The ducks mannequin standards came can- obediently climbed into the van solation this week,

and were taken to their new Their figure resemble the home, St George Park lake, Venus of Milo more closely than Bristol. They have settled down

• ROUND ABOUT INDIA. By do the mannequins".

quite happily. John Seymour. Eyre and Spottis

The Ministry of Health has woode: (8a; 255 pages.

Un

tape conventionally arriving in South Just been at work with a

measure on five thousand women BATTLE Indla s one of the crew of aneged eighteen to stventy. conv

OF THE Indian railing boat, Seymour spent a year drifting about the

HAIR GRIPS sub-continent, visiting Syrian

the

Britain's average woman, it 5ft secins, woghs 9rt, 7., 19 Christians, the White 3in. tall; has 30.5in. bust; 26.0in. Jows of Cochin, the deepest waist; 38.4in. hips. gold-mine in the world, inixing with the people free

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The battle of

the hair grips,

whether it be

for the feminino

head in Manchester or for the dowing locks of a bearded Sikh

in India, is on with a vengeance

Venus (it's not fair to weigh and causing much competition When the Earl of Bristol ap- from any consciouscas of caste her in marble) is Bft. 4in, tall between British and · German peared once more to be at the

has a 37in, bust; point of death, Elizabeth rush od down to the little church at

38in. hips,

The

of

re-

Lairston and induced the old parson to enter the details her secret wedding, in the gister, explaining, "It is as good a hundred thousand pounds my pocket." But the Earl again recovered.

#1: Loz

or colour. A mos! engaging travel-book

3510.

20in. wait;"

of

the

world's

ย

manufacturers,

Tidmess

• FLIGHT INTO SPACE. By

tre:ses feminine Jonathan Norton Leonard. Bldg-

was more or mannequins, however, lesa in the keeping of Birming- wick and Jackson; 12s. 6d., 245 whose figures look so perfect on ham manufacturers, but now, pages. The pros and cons of parade, are generally 5ft. Tin. though they produce nearly

discussed in n

or 5ft. Bin, tall; have busta 34- million har grips a day, comes Space-travel reasonable and well-informed

35in: waists 22-23in; hips 34- sterner competition from Ger- way,

GHOSTS AND POLTER-

many in the form of ́a cheaper In disgust she then gave up GEISTS. By Herbert Thurston,

product. all her hopes

taking of the Bristol

The Ministry,

the 16: 210 matter 8. J. Barns Oates; fortune and resolved

further, breaks down to marry

Shorter hair styles produced pages. Anybody seeking on in the five thousand into three aga the idea, for ordinary hair pins her protector, the Duko

of telligent level-headed account Was Augustus discouraged by Kingston. Aunistus, foto pay of

groups, showing how, the pasting slipped manifestations poltergeist

out

clipped tresses. the thought that, at 24, "the ment of £16,000, took part in a through the centuries need not years put on weight and glith. "Almost Aimultaneously Bit- young lady was already some- fraudulent

mingham Arm and some Ameri- suit whereby what shop-boiled? She had been court found that he and Eliza go beyond Fr. Thurston's book. it is not his purpose to convince

average can manufacturers brought out under the protection of William beth had never been married, the public of the reality of the weight of the youngest group the hair grip, but the Midlands Pulteney,

who, tiring of the He probably attended the married happenings. But the effect 18 to 29-is 9st. lib; hils 37.6in. factory gradually gained the girl, hud her made a Mald of age of Elizabeth to her Duke of the succession of poltergeist With the over-forty-aves, this upper hand in the struggle Honour.

"to take a last look

my stortes in to raise doubt and has expanded to: weight, 10st. markets. With Germany, coming widow,"

among the speculation

batile most 4b; hip 40.4m.

lo grips, as it were, the too sceptical.

for supremacy wages long and COPYRIGHT RD- WORLD

Noteworthy is that the younger hard, each side attempting to finished SERVED.

generation are taller than their capture the trade with a varlely

Height of the young of new-style grips.

at

In that case he spoke scon,

To young sailors such deter rents have less than the normal force.

It is OYCH unlikely that He was not quite Augustus suspected that there with Elizabeth.

the

Many Happy Returns

WHAT'S THE TROUBLE... DIDN'T YOU TELL

SANTA CLAUS WHAT

YOU WANTED

- Į MEAN IT'S THE WRONG SIZE-FOR MY WIFE?

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TD SCHOOL-

AND MOM'S HOLIDAY BEGINS.

"WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO – MOW THE

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ROUNDABOUT Capetown's ROUTE

postal chlof

· is a litle bewildered by officialdom.

Reason: A letter, addressed to an official in room. 124 of a government office building. came back to the post office. It was marked: 'Not for Room 124, try Room 122.

SOLD CAR "Old Ben",

affee FOR A PENNY they

tionately call- ed him in OLDHAM, when at 07 ho was one of the town's midat beloved characters. He had had university education, and

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although he always dressed in shabby clothes, he was reputed to be weality.VENKU KE

And

for 10 years or more, Benjamin Bolton's daily routine was to call at the neighbouring Ordoance - Arms. Inn, for him night-cap of whisky and buy BAB fellow cronies a drink. But one night recently he was missing. They saw that the lights in his house were shining. They weat on shining all night. Licenses Herbert Bottomless bpoëma worried, broke in and found "Old Ben" dend.

Ant at the Ordnance Argia they may be heard: ducUARDING this lovable man who cOTUTTE for a Christmas present spontaneously offered to him' by a neighbour, retaliated with a gift of twenty golden sovereigns. Once he sold a car for a penny to a deserving friend who could ill-afford to buy one,

IT PAYSAN Diamond An- TO READ... druchi yot Capetown never read the papers. For: 10 years, he had scorned the print- ed word", and: godis his fapper. way, oblivious of what went on in the world to VAN

Then, one day

recently

was dycling to wOKKUNA BEEN [#013'--mantot blew.”a «

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On the curb he

print.