The
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LancastER
GENEVA KMURCHILL
CALLS
EDEN AGAIN
"--and Mummy darling, you promise you won't keep ringing ME up to find or how I'm getting on!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954.
50 DUKES PROTESTED
ABOUT A PARASOL
THE EUROPEAN NOBILITY IN THE 18TH CENTURY,
Ed. A. Goodwin, A. and C. Black, 12s. 6d. 201 pages.
THE study of any noble
T
cante in full flower-
and here are studies
PARADE
from
Three
ngo, Frederick yenra appealed through a Wellington New Zealand) paper for pen- He wanted one minted nles.
BLACK AND Detectives, Take, for instance, the case frustrated by of Frederick China and Miss COSTLY St. Hurugo led Marqula
their lack of Vee Fosseniski.
in ro- BICCOSS revolts of the workers In Paris MAGIC alums; Mirabeau wrote pamph-covering £30,000 stolen lets to rig the Stock Exchange; the railways between Southern the Prince de Montbarey wae and Northern Rhodesia, decided wounded in battle, aged 12; the to consult a witch doctor. Comte do Sabran, with 11 The witch doctor figured a wounds,
the English
toss of his bones would do the wanted at Gibraltar brandish-job cannon
all right-bat he ing his table allver; M. de te know what his cut would be.
charged
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They will decide from the evidence of this book that the English nobles were the
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Later. Eniled
In those days the work death duties, which full on the
In Spain there was leas folly. his hands, muttering, "I of
laziness, even more 7.000 quids."
That was too much "How nourishing war
detectives.
Just and the unjust, was accor- plished, on sounder principles of eugenics, by a prosigate heir at the fro tables.
GOUT
10 tox
in each year of his life. Four- teen were miming.
Hundreds came in from all parts of the country and he got every year except 1923. The Jast three
have been youra spent trying to find that one.
Eventually, ho got a letter from Miss Posseniski who had A month ago, the hunted coin. they met for the first time,
Now, they're honeymooning.
They went away- STAND-UP German scientists about the black
binck magic.
*
WHISKERS
have evolved "miracle shaving whiskers makes
that skup" Magna Carta island, stand upon end-all ready for
The island, 011 which King John is sald to have signed the Magna Carts, was recently bought by Bucks County Council
can
Just how the BOGD gives a vertical lie to whiskers trado * tightly-guarded were, but the inventor of the dream shaving soup claims that, with the whiskera standing
attention, you docilely at cut them two or three tenths of д millemetre closer to the skin than is possible with current shaving
with sonps--even sharp blade.
Further, it is claimed that shave with the new coop lasts lour or five hours longer than the conventional
more Poverty the crust of black bread caten beneath the genealogical tree." multering market in The craziest French due was hardly wider than the Austrian Prince Kaunitz,
wore one MACNA to nine black silk cloaks accord- CARTA
at Runnymede, hai ing to the weather, who cleaned
been leused for 14 cutting. years to Miss Alberta Kkums teeth and
after dinner in ISLAND Gout was
occupational full view of his guests tbe
and
Catherine Bigelow, an American discuse of English peers, and
writer. Mi Bigelow plans to of Buch was his dislike of death- mistresses the by-product
live sent a favourite cake to so old
hunting in King John's their arranged marriages.
aunt four years. after she wis
lodge. Travel having given them breadth of outlook denied
to dead,
Russia, the Tear Wis their inferiors, they were the in arbiters of taste. More unusual, everything; noble blood count- her ed for no' bing. To show they were prepared themselves heavily.
opinion of the Russian nobility. the Taarina Anne chose the the picture wax In France
No taxes for nobles sous of three famous houses pa different.
with her court fools. Privileges were guarded
Mahmoud, the The diverted render of these CIGARETTE furious jealousy.
The French
three-year- to
varying (about
literary ADDICT dukes
50) protested studies
old bear ira 153 a vanished system loudly when the exclusive right valuel
Cuiro Zoo, smokea five suitable carry will come upon many of their duchesses to
vigarettes a day. Corpus Christi cantulates for similar posts parnaols in the
And there's troube aplenty of other courts,
For an hour, 19-year- provensko was infringed.
he doesn't get his daily ration. NEXT,
Elena Mazori Mahmoud! Медия his
head PLEASE old
waited in a Milan against the cage, tries to beul
churen for her bridegroom, up his kopers, and snarls at
Domenico Tortorella, a 25-year- customers whenever ካራ
old barbar. runs out of fags. After a nok though. he breonies gentle and friendly
Nobles head by right most of the high army canmands; - fortunately, military knowledge Fleeing from Is not hereditary.
ot
the defent at Rossbach, Prince Loulasie Bourbon Conde anked: "Have you seen any fugitives?" "No. mouseigneur,""
came
the answe
"you
are the first," Many younger sons of French nobles entered the Church; jenst they took the Church's monkey One prince,
Ettular abbot of four monasteries, per- formed a single ecclesiastical a marble tomb duty: he built for his pet monkey McCarthy. THE POOR
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BOOK OF THE PENGUIN MODERN AMERICAN VERSE. Edlied Geoffrey Moore, 3s. 6d. 320 pages.
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The Zox's veterinarians the smokes muy kill him ever Rudly, but they've had no suc- ers in curing làm of the habit
CALMER The world's windlest train ride is on the RIDE
way out. A five male Tunnelore at the longest
world has been pushed through the Riuatak range, 25 miles front Wellington, Zealand.
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to
shave-and
that
now have men who shuva twice a day will be able to get by with one shave.
Then the guests went out to Jook for him. They found ho had kidnapped Elens's 17-year- old sister. Romana.
•
ENDLESS
after Nine years
end of the WRANGLE the
Second World War, the wrangles are still going on who stole what. who over wrecked who, and who ought to pay.
Samples: Marshal Tito is de- belts, 1,300 New manding
church allegedly stolen by the lion army of occupation. But the Italians say they can give them into back. They shells. Instead, they will
pay Tito the cost price of 1,000 bells,
Italy wants Tito to give back eight famous oil paintings, in-
which cluding a Titian, found in a Bavarian cave by the Americans and given to Yugo slavia by the American Control Commission,
Previously, to get over The range, the railway wound its way over the mountain ridges jub which took five extra locomo- tives. Every then it was risky.
Below, far below, the upper crust of wealthy French nobles of poor ones. was proletariul The firelon
THREE SINGLES Kentry wen1 10 market with A sword on one ADVENTURK, Hy Gerald Dur-
A railway car was onee blown. rell Faber, basket on the other; side and
219 15h.
pagesoff by a 90-mile-an-hour gale, British of the nobles
animals Auch ploughed Hunting
A sign on the adjoining highway Gusana #heir own Belds; daughters of
trap, net, lasso, warns motorists: "Beware of the Will Poitou
ete. The animals thish in zoos. the aristocrats of
Wind," kept
• AFRICAN FURY. By George the flocks while their fathers
Michael Joseph,
188. THE COURSE Love, they say, pestered
for John Michael, the Coim
220 pages. Hunting animals in (though not for work).
OF LOVE if English Dobles
Africa, with gun. The animals Baiah 46 rugs. stuffce eccentric, how could the French
heads,
But what makes love b. clusilled? The Duc d'Olonne ivory ornaments, etc. Excellent go round is quite another mat- lived by shoplifting:
photographs of the slaughter.
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THE
Ave
T-3
is a 2001-
of freshwater ico nine and floats in the
Ico Island NEW YORK,
slab THE HEADLINE you see thick
wide miles above appears in the
miles long that Italy claims they were flched New York Herald-Tribune Aretic Ocean anywhere between by Marshal Goering. They think they have a legal claim, because today with the strangest 150 and 500 miles off the North
address for a long Pole. Goering didn't bother to get annows
time. On Ice Island T.3. export permit for them.
EASTER PARADE.
SOME PEOPLE
| NEVER FEEL AT EASE
IN NEW CLOTHES.
WUNED
"NO, THESE BRITCHES AINT EXACTLY NEW, BUT THEY'RE NEW TO ME / SAYS THE
HANDYMAN.
COME FEEL:UKE 1
A MILLION BUCKS
IN THE
NEW RIG --' JUST AS IF IT' WERE PAID FOR
OTHERS ASSUME A NEW DIGNITY AND TRY TO LIVE UP TO
THE CLOTHES.
"LAY OFF THAT "CHUM' STUFF- IT'S MISTER
TO YOU?”
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
SOME FELLOWS FEEL .. YOUNG AGAIN IN A NEW OUTFIT AND SALLY FORTH TO GIVE THE GIRLS A TREAT- BUT THEY COME HOME FOR DINNER AS USUAL.
GET MORE KICK OUT OF A NEW SUN.. RAN THE PROUD OWNITE
On It,ving in frigid loneli- ness, the U.S. Air Force has a small weather study team.
And over the little cluster of huts
where the Stars and Stripes flies, a Soviet Illyushin- 12 bomber appeared on May to make three swoops, taking pictures all the time. No shola were fired.
The U.5. plans no protest because "nobody owns
thu North Pole," say officials.
ACTRESS Dale Evans, wife of cowboy star Roy Rogers, is laid up with an ear infection. She caught it, says her doctor, on her recent visit to Britain. One of its effects is that it prevents her keeping ber balance.
WORRIED
force
frown on the air side of the Pentagon---
because 150,000 highly trained airmen have somehow replaced this year,
to be
Only 50,000 of 200,000 airman who signed up for four years when the Korean war broke out have agreed to re-sign. The rest are quitting.
Training replacements wit cast at least 344 million dollars. Presumed cause of the exodus; Military pay does not match earnings in Industry,,
IT has yet to be announcedi officially but President Eigen- hower has set up n "junior Cabinet" to help the regulės Cabinet and bring Government departments closer touch with the White House,
The junior Cabinet, which meets every two weeks under the President's assistant,' Sher- man Adams, is made up of high officials from each of 10 departe menta represented
the Cabinet proper.
BLOE-EYED hotress: Gloria Vanderbilt, wife of London-bor mymphony, conductor Leopóla Blokowak-they eloped in 1945 when she was 21 and be 18- planning to add new laurels to those she has already wor painter, writer, social lender, and mother they have two
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