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SNAILS IN Suails make news threepence halfpenny a pound. THE NEWS in Italy, where Average length of a mail is ono
thousands upon
inch. Five nails to the ounce. thesunda of them re being packed into baskets and shipped off to France. Strangely, there la sua shortage in France
No me in Italy would have known about it f Italians visiting France recently had not arked for the proverbial French smalls only To be told that the small weren't. Now, advertise- in local Italian ments appear newspapers addressed to the unemployed
you watal work. collect snails. We buy
Thousands of unemployed wese stand bunting and receive
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4 Confes. 7 Salles, 19 sajon, Munnele, 14 Forbids, 15 Results,
17 Amus. 10 Gyrale, 21 Even, 22 Trim, 23 Fell.
AND THE BRIDES
COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT AND THINGS
AND PLACES
Just to ensure that his sub- ordinates took them to heart, Sir John ordered that his la- structions be read to every man and woman in the Force. And senior officers must sign a do- claration that
every pollco officer in their command has
but understood them.
Three brides and their bridegrooms shattered tholr CRIED wedding ceremony not only read or heard them--- in Delhi recently with tears and
All alx were
bowls.
The
babies.
The grooms were aged 18 months, two years, altel four bride's two. three, yenes; the an. Ave,
Alter Te reremony, their parents feated while this child. Pea bisefully unaware of their married state, slept,
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THE USUAL South Africa's CELEBRATION oldest woman,
CASSY TREASURE
Biggest demand is in the in- dustrial Midlands, Birmingham and the surrounding district has 40,770 vacancies, 12,001 un- employed. Nottingham area has 30,080 vacancies, only 8,670 un- employed. London and South Eastern Region have 84,101 vacancies and $1,832 oul of work.
One reason for the unemploy- ment figures is the reluctance of workers to move house and home to a district where they would be needed.
Another reason is the In- creasing demand for Trained ΠΥΓ 18. It's no use applying un-
you have
tradesman's
skill.
The modern urt and architecture that is taking hotel of Britain is disturbing enough to traditionalists, but at least they dint expect this,
A gasometer, squatting in customary Ini, cylindrical fees fashion in London's Fulham dis triel, has been Hated
by the Government with the nation's
treasures architectural 113-year-old historie structure. Mrs Mary Karem, celebrated Admittedly, it was erected 124 her birthday last week, Sho years ago. in the days when stayed in bed because the things were built to last, And, according to inspectors who viewed is lostle six years ago, it is in a state of perfect pre- privation and Its iron work la a fine example of gasholder work- manship and design.
weather was cold.
its
ev] Porn Jon look But late usual to 711 A tot of brandy before breakfast, a whisky be- fore lunch and apother whisky before dinner,
IMMIGRANT Audej MINISTER
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Even though it was ance the
biggest Salan: world's
arz best Beity. Pasometer, Londoners are won- Libya's
new dering Just where this busÍNVONS Foreign Ministri, 1
Turk-- wit!
lho end. Perhaps
next
and, until
classed with two weeks ago, he structure to be
monumenta Whe working for the Turkish England's historie
will be a chimney slack. foreign office.
when
he
FL alf kappened accepted King SenOLIERI'S elation to visit the County Alxel #iked it so much that he clocleted be would like to stay. The King like him HU PEILIT 2. that he offered him a job.
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Britons
LONDON'S WONDERFUL on POLICE
10TH
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their pollection
Last week came
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THE REAL For the Arst THING in centuries, visitors to Milan can now see "The Last Supper" the way Leonardo Da Vinci painted it.
Paint, on eighth of an inca thick.
THE NEW BOOKS
The Day That Work Caught Up
With The Bar-Room
Bar-Room Shaw'
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
on
to
see something of
mino
in
print oxcept my thumbs."
Among the ange's ophorisms was, "le nice to people on your way up because you'll need 'em on your way down."
It was not until the boom of Wilson the mid-twenties that Mizner really started on the way up in collaboration with bis brother
Addison Mizner, except
could who was practising as a slap- slick archllect one jump ahead of the bailiffs.
alone.
the typewriter, THE INCREDIBLE MIZNERS, formalities
By Alva Johnston. Hart was a confidence man, a card
sharper-"You win, strenger." Davis. 120. 6. 271 pages, he said to a chance opponent, |OMETIME _in 1927, "but those are not the cards i hin spirit broken at dealt you"; a smoker of opium, Inst, Wilson Mizner a stiffer of cocaine, surrendered to work.
Breaking himself of these two babits, he became, on the testi- Behind him stretched Д life on which the coloured mony of a Los Angeles police
only man doctor, the time lamps of misadventure and Sherlock Holines who let them misdemeanour danced. He take drugs or had experienced many things: prison, marriage, hunger, success, drug- Work had not addiction. been among them.
fu "black hour, in 1007, dis breed by the elderly multi мечен of "retouch" men. some millionairest with whom he had of whom didn't seem to share chivalruusly united his life, he Da Vinci's artistle taste.
had for a few days taken charge of 200 carts that were removing debris after the San Froncaco earthquake.
When news of this downfall the pubile prints. c.entiate treat
WI
Why
i should work?
I've committed 10 crime
has been removed 3 whi.e-alred restoration expert Mauro Pellicloli, 'The nuper- imposed print was the work of
NOW Af er four усита DRIED research, New MEAT Kovernment
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ve come up with why to dehydrate meat--and make it tax like ment again when I arrives on the table.
Whole cuts of meat can be BU reduced in bulk that one mru -
In
quit
the shipwreck <t his marital hope: he was a sensitive nien.
His wife, widow of a
carrying ship could, if the needtruction king, to only drank to La point when he declared sho krose, do the work now done by
-agench=ferstret,” was 12
TEETHING Enthusiastic Min- Health TROUBLES Istry
officials thought they were doing the stately little provincial esty
Now wich LAVOUR Nottingharn may have England's most beautiful kirts TO
would bart at least Norwich to have the best texth. hearing from So they
gave Norwich the visi- oversens
Arst chance to treat its water arc with
Huuride,
an experiment A GOOD which hes already helped YARN Brezerve terth in nearly hundred Amerleen centres,
The scheme could be tested he (or seven years, said the Miuls- try, and if by then, Norwich's toth weren't the best in End well
forget they could th But Norwich (pop. 180.00N)
not so much Interested elin and beauty In free- сколь
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London's policemen must be-
still
wonderful. ordered Commissioner Sir John Natt-Bower in cunldential in- structions circulate: to all Metropolitan stations.
Sir John, in fact, bad become "very perturbed by the increas- d number of complaints Iron the public about Incivility.
And he urged London's won- derful policemen not to use "sarcastle. dogmatic or rude" language whe
addressing members of the public. warned. especially, "bullying methods of talk and reposled more "Lact and diplomacy when dealing with both crowds and individuals,
Tact and diplomacy, he said was what produced results, and not sarcastic comments or stolid assertions. The line of "you d better obey, or else ." is de Anitely OUT.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
— AND DID YOU KNOW THAT ALL EELS ARE BORN
IN THE SARGASSO SEA、
Emyte Eric."
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WE WERE
YOUNG
MAN- DO
YOU KNOW
LEAVING, DEAR?" WHAT
THE ONES WHO KNOW
EVERYTHING BUT THE
TIME OF DAY- OR. NIGHT.
I SHOULD
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BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND THE
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Seld Councillor Edward Dean, when the city Connell rejected The proposal by 32 votes to 23.
Canadian Public
Works Minister Robert Winters had the Portuguese when through signing agreement bero
10
a yarn for
Rol emmerical Lisbon.
This,
sald. Canada got its name
One bright day, a Portuguese bout anchored off Canada's east Const.
WILS how
Cine matelot looked at another and said "Ca nada." The ex- 10 Kalun in Portuguese means "there is nothing here."
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pathologiently close-fisted,
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danned samplemsant Mizner mured experience."
bear to tulk when he could about it, "to be stopped by two Pinkertons when you're walking out of your own hi use with a
can full of jewels."
In the course of lus gaudy career he perfected a talent for the explosive phrase. Told
Coolidge
dend," Mizner anked calmly. "How do they know?" Of a conceited book mupt he said. "Failure has gone to his head."
In the stampede of America's new
rich to Florida, Addision ande a fortune
real-
selling estate and building palaces. His motio: "This people can't stand the sight of anything that doesn't cost a lot of
money,
Brother Wilson kludly helped with the finance.
This was the climax of the unedifying Mizner sago which Beseeched to write the story Alve Johnston tells untidily but of his iffe, he replied: "It would with wit and gusto. In the in-
whistle. exorable crash, Addison be blowing a police
writo He excused himself for having ruined; Wilson went to written a short story: "I wanted tripls in Hellywood.
Was
TRUFFLE TROVE
By Milton Shulman
S a child in Czechoslovakju Me Joseph Wechsberg de 19:ted food su much his parents took him to see a doctor about
it.
"He will be all right," said "Some the doctor.
day he'll want to eat more than he's - ing to get,"
LU
Blue Trout and Black Truffles (Gollancz, 169.) 1: a light- hearted record of Mr Wecha- berg's gastronomic pilgrimages. might well be described as a grand tour through the ailmen- tory canal.
It
CITY~
Here is a world of such terp- perament and sensitivity as to The prognosis was remarkably make opera singers seem accurate. For a few years later tented camels by comparison.
A restaurateur refuses a table Mr Wachsberg was already dis- Son of U.S. ambassador to paying the appropriate sense of to a woman who smokes befor
of a coming
the dessert; a ship's cook makes gourmet. Guatemala, Wilson weighed values
He began
his best dishes on the roughent to prefer chcere gold Ja the Monte Carlo donicz
days to spite his seasick passen- hall at Dawson City during the iris.
rage arguments Kers; violent "A million and 4 gold ingh
His life as a diplomat, a violin
should be over whether beer half dollers of gold dust and
poured gently
into a alightly nuggets, and never a mistake player, and a writer hai nabied
search out good tod tilted glass or quickly from high him to that wasn't in favour of the
tenacity above; Belgian with the cunning and
club caling thouse."
nţa sruter-diviner. Since wino prohibits all talk during dinner
his second passion, the
o that members can truly op- metaphor inay be unfortunnie,
Piccate the food. No place was too far, no trip Returning from Alaska to his CHINS There will be nothing dedientod #fc Дя America's too arduous for Mr Wechsberg if his reward was to be somIE fear in the future. champion wastrel and bar-room UPI
There
wus Danish physlelan Erik Bernard Shaw Wilson managed succulent delicacy. Jacobsen has invented a druga "theatrical" hotel !n
Budapest, bouilla New gunlash in which removes all fear. He 11 York, managed a prize-fighter, baisse la Marseilles, sausages in serious. In eight out of 11 regions
He will leave this collaborated la writing plays Prague, poularde au champagne employers are "erying out" for week for New York to negotiate with a fellow-author who per- In Paris, and lets de sole in hands.
world marketing.
{formed the soul-destroying Provence.
we accept It there is no mit to the liberties which may
Individual, und that is not the British way of life."
be taken from the
JOBS
Out of a job? There CALORE are more vacant jobs in Britain thun available work-
TIME - STANDS-STILL.
DEPARTMENT.
6-6
COM. 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
IF SHE COULD SEE HIM AT LUNCH "TIME". SHE WOULD MAKE HIM KAT HIS WORDS:
Flul, added Mr Winters, "we've got lots of things now,"
1p
It's About Time
Adrnivers sel afterwards: "Mizner could make u pair of scales do anything."
I HAVE
ER-DAYLIGHT SAVING
SOME
CURLERS
OR STANDARD ? “
“DINNER'S READY,
"ITS ABOUT TIMES |
LEPT-DO YOU WANT 'EM 7"
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~WELL! YOU'RE NO 'CHICKEN" YOURSELF/"
"THE BOYS ARE PLANNING A· FISHING TRIP
SOME WEEK END –
HOW
ABOLIT M 7
KIDDING
19
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
·I GUESS ITS ABOUT "TIME I GOT A HAIRCUT 2"
GOSH-ALL - I SAID WAS — "TIME FLIESV*
"SURE THING-ANY-OLD-TIME,
one
Icels, M Sometimes, Wachsberg is overdoing it, Thus he describes a wine expert face
Was
to face with a bottle of 1797
"Is head Bordeaux: dightly bent
In deference. IL
he'd worn a beret have taken it off."*
Wine-making is
racking
he would
ទេ nerve-
profession. Constant odd
fretting about
it has an effect on those involved. They
begin to think of the wine as a un- woman nervous, moody, predictable, "He's in constari
the conversation with
wine," ssys someone, polating to Ledar-master,
0
Fuzzied by the black spois Wecbsburg SD fole uras, Mr
travelled to Perigueux to clear
up the mystery. He knew they but were created by truffles, what were truffles? Mush- Potatoes? Coloured
rooms?
carrots?
seems they are just truffles. They grow apparently without roots under the ground neur cak trees. They are hunted out by talented pigs with a Ane noJU for their peculiar scent.
The fore pras which they decorate has less appetising
from comes
histor
livers
To
It
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the
of geese that have been forcibly fed by stuffing maize
fat they
down their throats. After six weeks they become so can't move, and if they are not killed they will suffocate,
Most of Me Wechsberg's
luscious recipes are hardly practicable for a limited bud- get. One requries the covering of truflies with dry champagne and another needs 50 pounds of sole which has to be simmered over a slow Are until it is re- duced to one pound of reddish, jamlike glace.
Others are
compileated that even Mr Wechsberg, dass not ask how they are done. “It would be ille attempting to play the cello by watching Pablo Casals," ho sighs.
If you want to be recognised as an epicure, this book offers some valuable tips. Never hold a champagne glass by the stem, only by the forefinger and
VI
token
thumb, at the bottom; thumb
salad is the enemy of wine. and they
hould
tiever be together; eat your food de soon as it arrives and do tot walt for others to begin: don't wear too much perfume since it 140 Gintracting; and a'
Dieal lots of time.
good
But perhaps the sagest com ment in the book comes, from a Hungarian chef, "It is climeult to make
ke something good out of second-class materials," he said, "but it is quite
easy to spoil
the first-clase DOSE
The why in his many
· mixy be
FITERO'to: fiích, nautorials for
his disarming 11 Army 10
commious, bookke
never once found come to kaming
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