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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1954.
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON on BOOKS
Mr Lewis Was A Jump Ahead Of Destiny
THE MAN FROM MAIN became the heir of eight
Lewis was
of 11
Or hip odyssey
through STREET. Selected essays generations of Connecticut journalism to literature, Lew's gives salty, autobiographical by Sinclair Lewis, Haine Yankees, intensely secretive glimpses in this collection of fils mann. 15s. 294 pages. about his work.
literary oddments. Ils progress in journalism (from 35 dullars ars TTENRY SINCLAIR
12 dollars 50 cena) horn (1887) week to HLEWIS is tall, anky, son
dismissnin. was punctuated by hard-working The Afth time, Lewis not one red-haired, restless and, as country doctor at Sauk jump ahead of destiny: teneered Centre, Minnesota, in the a dignified resignation. "Ah'd back blocks of the corn belt, give a lot to know who told you where men arc men and Ah was going to fire you," said usually Scandinavians: "his aggrieved employer. good time, a good place and
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
·AND THIS IS OUR THIRD
VICE PRESIDENT~-
MR.-ER-MR-
ER
story
Aiols
The
PARADE
DESERT
Deep in the south What boilers Miss McGill still- ROMANCE of Israel, not far more is the concerted attack of from Biblical Bear- many children upon "Allee In shebu. 67 - year - uka sheikh Wonderland" - they culled 11 Suleiman el Huzelt is the un- boring, dløft, silly, soft, childish. disputed ruler of 2,000 Bedouins, And what do they like?
Enid The mixteen King Solomon has Blyton came first, except. for no fewer than 42 wives, 08 sons boys over 12, who chose W. E. and whole regiments of grand. Julins. Some threw In Stevenson chlidren 5-197 great Brand- and even Shakespeare, but Miss children. Plus a kill twinkling McGill says she rather suspects eye for the giris.
that Will was mentioned just to impress.
In recent weeks the whokh has been seeing o number of Hollywood films on his vints to
the three elnemes of Beersheba. WAIT
Now he has decided to look up FOR IT his hatem, marry an American Alri and "settle down". His only trouble is in finding a girl who w marry him, "Someone lilde Marilyn Monroe!" sighs the sad sheikh.
PS: The address 15: Sheilch el Huzeil, Shuval, Negev, Israel.
"The world will sea coming of the Mesaluh within threo
months".
This is the prediction made in Jerusalem by "spiritual leader"
Amrain Bleu Rabbi
ubüt a good preparation for life."
Bleu is leader of only a Email Sauk Centre appears as
Rect of Jewish fanatica but maintains that there is nothing Gopher Prairie in Lewis's Lewis found better-paid werk
fanatical about Inek novel, "Main Street," the and beat, got round t
his prophecy. His prediction that the Messiah satire of American small using the plots himself.
will come nt
ut any moment town life on which Lewis's only literary advice he ever GERMAN Oficial attempts to ment of Biblical prophecy — and bused, he says, upon the full- fame was built. Down from took camé from o iniv-"The
PURCE purge the German writing is the art of }
upon "highly accrci" computa- Yale on vacation, he heard art of
language of "pidgin
which, applying the soat of the pants, Deutsch" (the Use of English lons and compilations che pensants of Sauk Centre to the seat of the clinir."
15 taken
together,
the provide and American slang) are being
"exnet
date. More or Icss, sak: "Why don't Doc Lewis
undertaken by the Ministry of make Harry get a job on a to satire, the loving scourge of clean-up is being carried
lic was a romantle deviating Interior In Bonn.
The language myway. nut farm?"
the Tired Buslacss Man; through the medium of the
Harry reacted to this local intolerance by writing the first 15,000 words of "Main Street,"
Sauk Centre is still much the same town as it was when Lewis wrote his novel: population,
be cherished a secret passion for "Society for the German lang FAIR DEAL A
wintry Pilgrim virtues Literary Idol: Dickens, Novel: "Arrowsmith."
Best
Addressing leaders
of
"fair deal" for
campaign for
J
genorts has just
age". The Society publishes Us
FOR own newspaper, Mother Tongue, and aims at substituting
SENORAS pure
beco Inunched in Germante words for the hun- Spaln-a country where women the dreds of foreign expressions have long counted for nothing tough. "outspoken" school of which have crept into everyday nutside the home. Action, he Says: "You boys! speech since the war,
TOUT).
last part."
you
"Shakespeare
even-
Hending the enunpaign and also the criginator of it is one
wants
treatment
storted
when something began to undress in the drawing- Your followers took your
of Spain's twelve wonen inw- blonde bar- precept, 'Be clever and dirty, RED A Shakespeare vogur yers, 38-year-old
who started with rister Mercedes Formica 3,010; 3,000 swell folks and 18 but they could follow only the RAGE
rqunt
for skunka," says a resident. On a
ings' in Prague-shows signs of women who separate from their new movie theatre is a bronze Ten years before he died sweeping throughout Commu- husbands. As it stands at pre- useription, These are the (Rome, 1931), Lewis write his nist Czechoslovakia. Shake But the law, she maintains, is portals of Imagination. Recover
own obituary; on the whole, a speare evenings, Shakespeare gressly unfair. While Repara- hope all ye
The who enter here."
bard's en proces fings greal
pending not Red Lewis wrote that, too.
plays and sonnet
are (divorce is recitals
allowed now
all the rage-and the Catholic Spain) a woman, the height of fashion and kultura in innocent party or the guilty, Is
forced to leave her home the People's Democracy!
children.
friendly notice. Already he was exhibitions, mellowing.
LIBRARY
A
LIST
M. known
Schora
ure
In
and
Formica's views оп The Golden Honeycomb. By from his animal foes and then to
the situation ure popular. Vincent Cronin. Repert Hart- subdue them to his use. Later
Miss Hilda Within
few hours of her writ Davis, 16s. 267 pages. Elegantly comes the realisation that we are BOOKWORMS
a Madrid daily McGill, Ing them in than we TURN closer to the animals and
affectionately written.
had
Nietzsche suspected:
25 paper her home was inundated young man's testimony to the
Organiser of Work with Young with telegrams, 'phone calls and publicly embraces a horse and
in beauty and interest
300 People
MANCHESTER of Sletty. Schopenhauer bequeaths
visitors
while the first post the Public Libraries, Ands It The historic island inspires a gulden to his dog.
more following morning brought Brst book of learning and dis-
revealing to know what books glunt shoals of letters. The children don't like rather than senors expects her tinction.
campaign their likes.
force a a change in the law within year. If successful she will Amongst the dislikes, she re- ports, are "Little Women" (he press for other relerms-includ cause some of
died); odjustments of present inwa them
which rule that Spanish women "Robinson Crusoe" (he Is on the island too long); "Gulliver's have no right to own property, cannot marry without the con- Travci (silly, those little men); ent of their men-folk or travel "Larna
• Oxford Triumphant, By Nor- man Longmate. Phoenix 10s. ◆ Animals, Men and Myths. By 190 pages. A guide to post-war Morus, Gollancz. 21s, 374 pares. Oxford written with plenty of Exploiting one simple but knowledge and a sufficiency of enthralling theme, the influence prejudice. Longmale may ap of animals on the history of man pear censorious to some; not all and civilisation, "Morus" (Dr of his guesses will win respect, Richard Lewinsohn, head of the but his devotion to his univer-
Doche" (because it mention Institute of Technical Research, sity, his desire that It should be doesn't
much about Rio de Janeiro) traces man's
"Manners u still aner place, give pungency
Can her) and
be struggle first to save himself to his writing.
Fun" (it's not true).
Allow Me To Present.
BY
HARRY
專賣
"ALLOW ME TO PRESENT~ ER-THIS IS
BUTCH-AND
WEINERT
'SOME JUNGLE
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NOTHING The world may NEW
lunit upon Sir Alexander Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin, but the Dones are slow to acclaim him. And with a reason,
In country districts in Den- mark it hos been the custom for many years to give sick people "a dose of mould straight off a damp wall. It is also on re- cord, say the Danes, that when the foldiers of Sweden's Charles XIITH Invaded Denmark in 1770 thuy ench carried in their knapsack-by order a chunk of mouldy bread and were Instructed to bind it on any wound they might receive,
THIS GUY MAY NOT BE AN ELEPHANT THAT NEVER, FORGETS-BUT THERE ARE "TIMES HE WISHES HE WAS.
IF THERE'S
ONE THING A |FISHERMAN HATES,
ITS TO BE
| INTRODUCED TO
SOMEONE WITH
LONGER ARMS
THAN HIS.
** AND NOW, MAY I PRESENT THE
ONE AND ONLY--THAT
· ENTERTAINER OF
ROYALTY-THE TOAST
OF-BTC- -
IF YOU GO TO THE RIGHT PLACES, YOU MERT THE GREATEST. (THATS WRAT, THE MC
MEETING THE GIRL'S FOLKS IS AN ANXIOUS MOMENT-FOR HER -- IT'S A SAFE BET POP WON'T ACT AS DIRECTED, BUT WILL ACT. NATURALLY, AND MAYBE SAY --- "HOW ABOUT A LIMBURGER. SANDWICH AND A GLASS OF BREW 7"
COPA 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES COM, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
"I MET HIM THROUGH
A MUTUAL FRIEND
A HARD-TOP CONVERTIBLE,
SORRY.
BARBS
By HAL COCHRAN
| EV
VEN if
you can look woman and tell you had better not!
at a
her age,
The younger generation thinks it's entitled to te, lib- arty and the pursuit of snuppi-
ncss.
ONE NEVER KNOWS HOW ONE'S BETTER HALF WILL RECEIVE ONE'S JOYOUS COMPANIONS — ESPECIALLY · WHEN ONE PRESENTS THEM OUT OF A CLEAR (7) SKY.
·ER-PERMH ME!
SOME PEOPLE. DONY MEET –
THEY COLLIDE
"THE ONE YOU SAID
DIDN'T HAVE
ALL HIS BUTTONS ?“
A woman in America sued her maid for stealing her hea band. It just isn't safe to leave things around the house.
There are two kinds of double chinsone grows on you, the other comes when two women meet.
A woman wan arrested for refusing to leave a public phono booth after two hours. It probably apolled the descriptioń of a new dress.
scientist Boys .man's supremacy is threatened by the lowly Inacct. Some wives probably can't tell the differa
enco.
·
This is the age of speed, but it still takes some women 39 years to reach 30.
Action was asked by a ceme- fery association in America to provent couples from spooning Thorn. A grave problem,
Some people would rather re- main single others would rather knot..
Most people won't laters to both, sides, unless they śkappli ta, bè 'on në recordi
"THIS IS YOUR
UNCLE
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