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ARTIE'S HEADLINE

"FOREIGN OFFICE

Pick-

Read any banned Booki,

Lately?"

you

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL

Nancy Spain

entertainment value. He can

WHAT THE GUY Claim another two

who got a dollar

a word ".

First. I have read all thes. Second and this is not generally known-there fre more than 1,000 now becks published each month. Of these I can view some only about 12

ELL they said to me, what with your mumps and there being this strike, why don't

catch up on good reading? Why not read "War and Peace," or "David Copperfield," or "The Brothers Karamazov," or

Madame Bovary ""

So I think it is my by business to tell you about new books.

by

A

British Crossword Puzzle

time he likes.

..

dozen ary

Nevil Shute, Joyce

Ian Fleming have

Hished new novels.

T

Nevil found

in

1 CTEN

30, 1955.

PARADE

The Belgian Congo's

-beartiest beer-

But

100 to one against the winning.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS.

of half

JOITOWS in deviationist

drink

For

•

and

between them, Russia, MADAM WILL YOU Along with .French Hungary a SHAKING It's the almost

and Rumania drank "A" WALK?

the "A" the less than 4,000 bottles. Navy versus

fashion line goes the "A" swalk. monthly pay NUDISTS

nudists in the big

But what is most puzzling London mannequins are going about all this battle for who should have the

Communist back to schoot to learn it. It i abstinence is-bow do the the walk that fits into Dior's little island, Le du Levant, off

their Chinese launch

ships? new Hire, maintaining the "A" the Toulon coast,

And

For Red China did not buy a in motion. single bottle of French cham pagne last year.

accuse of brewing

faland

་

Cary,

Between them: Jones pub BEER

nobody gives the men selves, an average

bottle a head.

Polland-who helped recover Africans much chance. 11,000,000 RUMPUS.

remains of the wrecked · Comet Shute's

Kremlin commissarg Because in the six years the

must jetliner eft Elba last year-hope REQUIEM FOR A WREN drinking natives anywhere-last

new roads #mileșat all the time and and for the Duke of Argyll, who SAID ABOUT DOLLS Heinemann, 12s. 6d.) terribly year gulped down 250 million women HAVE put the village have smiled the driest of dry to win a fortune for themselves

gloomy. Mr Shute's heroine is pints of good strong ale be- a the map. Had

money spent by the Western line inherited the wreck under a lending wren, Janet Prentice, ween them. And they gave bullt for houses erected.

Current bookmake"s odds: world in drowning their cap Royal Charter. One

officials the day, under the orders of Belgian colonial

she her superior officer, fres hangover.

It worked out that the men upon and brings down an enemy

seven of aircraft with She suffers from guilt about the women and children don't this Her

boy drink spent mother, father,

of their friend, and aunt all die. So do third

a pockets (around £13) on liquor, two dogs that she is fond

And while beer consumption Abour Father" And Leading Wren Prentice:

commits suicide her late soared and the womenfolk got First then book which

fiance's house tr Australla. madder and madder, food con- deserves

to a whole column

far the Navy is itself. FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS Which seems to me a crowning sumption sagged.

"Girls are finding it very dif Runyon

abuse of hospitality. Damon

jun.

Worried government officials winning with aerial torpedoes and rockets leaving the nudists

Ault to learn," said a fashion (Constable, 108. ed.), which is About Jim.... Eave now issued an 'oficial

shaking in

in their bare skins.

expert, at West End "school for the of Damen Runyon sem

story

gloomy reprimand to Belgian brewers,

mannequins, "It takes constant It was a pretty, peaceful little who JOYCE Cary is also Runyon was d drunk

he in NOT HONOUR MORE whom they drink because he

until the Navy moved in.

Chinese praction and concentration," Rave

wanted to be a success" He (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.). In bear specially for natives which. The diets had been using PLACE IN The

Communists have Photographers have had to for 25 years and nobody ever HISTORY

the Stacco decided

their whore which he continues the inter-is far stronger than can be

that changu was also

genius

the (begun saga

except bothered them with bought in Belgium.. cognised marvellous characters minable

"Prisoner of Grace") of Jim,

"Nonsense!" say the brewers, tourists who used to sail out there's a place in the nation's models for the glossy magazines. Nimmo, the Liberal peer. Nina natives

-gentlemen who these days of the other, pointing ahead and should get beer which a peek.

would qualify for the title of the other placed at right angles Arst married Nimmo and found does them good than make their

moved in. "Lascist hyenas,"

behind. Now the drill is legs About Women

ahe

Then the Navy couldn't do without Jim. Se own poison. Which is what

In a ft of remorse for its wide apart, feet pointing out- Drink gave Runyon "delusions she married Jim and found she they'd do it they couldn't buy. They said they were going to

the island as a rocket neglect, the

government has wards, making the letter “A” of grandeur that got him into couldn't do without Nimmo, Jimer. Already spirits ате

"During the war," observed launching and torpedo-testing ordered that repairs should start her with Nimmo: 80 banned for them. trouble and before he decided caught

ground,

cordoned off They

at once on the historic site 50 the fashion expert, "we got the to be a success he had been an eventually Jim murdered her. I can't see why this literary really

Plans to raise the beer tax nine-tenths of it, leaving a little mães un Paiping, where 13 long stride, based on the march Indian-Aghter, and a belihop.

lived of the girls in the services. With emperors--who Hr said of

The natives, corner to the nudists, and posted of the dropped. necessary. were pilgrimage

storter women that he

and 1844-are the New Look came liked

them prattle Which is jolly sad, because Mr the officials figured, would drink up notices, saying that visitors between 1388 hear to

more graceful, steps, with a And that to the island would in future be buried.

have along, you mow the way they Cary is a writer of genius.

If they do" But he also told his son

On the site is a marble arch, carriage. Now we Ian Fleming's latest blood would mean still less money "properly dressed"

this finest in he sometimes wished they'd and thunder-with-the-cloak-would be getting into the home. wished to enter the military

China, and an third and most difficult change." of stone warriors and avenic and-clagger book MOONRAKER

Then officials started paying Towards the end of his career (Cape, 101. 6d. is slightly less

rage animals. a shoo

"Casino Royale" husbands' wages straight to the shocking than they paid Runyon a dollar

That

be bad to This wives, Let Die." word for every word he wrote. and "Live and

It led to near He did rich And not the one is all about wicked Sir Hugo dropped, too, least property of his estate is who cheated at cards and revolution in one region. the immortal musical

to

be a a German spy. plotting to overthrow dear and Dolls,""

But Runyon's son doesn't get England by pointing a

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'ACROSS

1 Struggle (6).

4 Ruse (5)

7 Join up (0),

8 Pure (3).

10 German bey's name (4),

12 Tolis (7)

15 Feature (5).

20 Withered (4)

17 Accustomed (4).

19 Submit to (5).

20 Saller (7).

31 Dope (4).

23 Fish (5).

25 Vehicles (5).

24 Photographic apparatus (6),

28 Colour (8)..

26

22

DOWN

1 Kind of top (8).

5 Liberated (8).

2 Speak incoherently (3).

3 Catalogue (1).

6 Shell-hole (0),

9 Put off (5).

1 Usual (B).

JZ Equestrian (5).

13 Doki (8).

14 NCO (8). -

18 Army engineer (6).

22 Indian flm star (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORTM-Across: 3 Prepared, 8 Entire, Estimate. 11

12 Lead, 13 Admit, 18 Elder, 26 Distrust..

Arrested

10 Lou, 22 Reappear, 24 Conv rst, 25 Psalms,

Down: Delay, 2 Start, 3 Preside. 4 Rest, 5 Paid, 6 Roamed, Dreads, 10 Tepid. 14 Miser. 15 Tempest, 18 Placid, 17 Blends, 20 Meals, 21 Gross, 22 Rear, 2: Asps.

of

when he met them, like Henry soldier, and Nina and Lord It's better, they add, that the to the island at week-ends for history for the Ming Emperors It is no longer one foot in fro

the Horse. Nicely Nicely John-

son, and Miss Lola Lettre.

Ima in the river.

the

Guys

Ey meat out

was

old

rocket

a penny of his father's estate. at the middle of London. If Mr didn't write so well He seems a little bitter about Fleming it Runyon left everything to one would have to call his books his daugher and second cracking good yarns.

his

wife. He left his son his name

and his writing talent.

About John....

Which seems to me about the

O, much for Action

most important thing

2

man

can leave his son.

About Dominic...

novel

is A

AR and away the most en

joyable new DIFFICULT YOUNG (Crescent Press,

'Is

There

as much

In

anyway.

ton men

髂

use

zone.

c

*

the

"knitting" with "needles" ten

naked The nudists*

"KNITTING" About 50 men a while, but quietened after over Easter two things happen-

FOR BEER ed:

TOBERMORY Salvage expert feet long are competing for a Jira Polland is world championship title-but Two aerial torpedoes landed- plumb in the middle of a picnic TREASURE

going down instead of wool they use string, inches they every three in Bishops Itching- party (dress: optional) but did again this time to the deeps of and THEY'VE

England, the not explode.

Tobermory Bay off Scotland's knit will help to produce a ping

a aix of beer, HAD IT

have had

And foreign nudist, organisa- Argyllshire, to look for

Entrants not be teenth century Spanish galleon

in the competition, enough. Too much woman-rule.

Hons said they would this

believed to be sunk there with being held at Staplehurst, in the little Warwickshire village, the election cry is: "Up sending delegates there this millions of dollars of gold and heart of the Kent hopfields, are

Ho view of present conditions." with the men!"

But, in spite of everything, precious stones in its rotting some of Britain's most highly

skilled

workers. Next month the village goes the Navy refuses to give in. bull

agricultural was also a tremendous crop

the men who each to the polls for the election of Said a spokesman: "We have John

Polland will be adviser to a They are of non fction, of which

of money Verney's GOING TO THE WARS new parish council. For six already spent a lot

the rew salvage bid for the wreck spring weave the vast webs years the village has been ruled

our research stationTM on

to be (Collins, 128, 5d.)

the Armada string up which the hops dimb. worth Mx V wasn't aby a petticoat govemment island, You can test bombs in believed

ship Duque de About 300,000 miles of string mentioning.

are used every year in the pro- candi- the Sahara but you can't sall treasure

Florencia. film ever since the women good soldier. He was a

we intend to out and decided ships there. So

duction of the 11,000 tons brewers MAN director cum black and white dates came

that if Bishops Itchington was keep the island with or without

There is something there, of hops that the 125. 60)

artist with a sense of humour.

ever to get on the map, then the nudists."

Pólland is sure. Radar checks require, by Martin Boyd. Difficult At least one person has told me the women would put it there.

have established the position of Making large sweeps with their". his book makes him the Mr Boyd's hero, that, Dominic is

poles a 100 foot mound at the bottom "needles"-ten-feet-long And for six years there has. Dominis, who lay and screamed

topped with bent piping through WHO 11,

the CHAMPAGNE Britain drank..of the bay. Which is just plain silly. floor of the landau, who Siegfried Sasscon of World War

man on

моте cham- nose Sassoon was an enthusiast. He been only one punched a cousin op the

council.

GALORE.

than any

Maybe it is the treasure ship which their string is played pagne because he

poet. Mr Verney is swam Dominie's was also

say

a day. Their work is favourite pony out to sea with neither. Which is not to

country outside France --but before salvagers can even good hop stringers can cover an Now, the men, led by agricul- other permission, who leaped that "Going to the War hasn't tural contractor Frank Moore, last year. She imported 2,195,- get to it they will have to dig rather like knitting on a gigan

feet-thick it, piled tie scale. Winners and losers Spanish bullfight a lot of strange, glum charm. hope to end it all and get some 833 bottles costing £1,300,000. through down into a

by currents of four America was a close second, up Dah, I nearly forgot. Of

alike receive a free pint of beer- and might have been

with

2,178,034 bottles, but centuries.

Navy who eloped with his cousin course there is a new Angela new blood into the council.

-for, after all, they are the Ex-Royal

Captain Helens. (Helena, who

Says Moore: "It's only right there are nearly four times as might Thirkell. ENTER SIR ROBERT bave married otherwise

Simpson Jones, who will lead men who make possible every- Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) that the women should have many. Americans as Britons a fHamish

sommé opposition. There's no which is, claims Mrs Thirkell.

The world drank a total of the new expedition, says there he's pint. millionaire).

having da Mr Boyd writes warmly and exactly the same as all her point in

election 33,000.000 bottles last year, and is probably 15,000 to 20,000 tons I have awarded others. Alas, alas, how right unless someone is willing to of this amount. romantically.

Frenchmen of silt there. And all of it will REPORTERS Washington cor-

respondents drank 22,000,000 bottles thep-, have to be dug out of the way. him oysters before for his sheer Mrs Thirkell always is.

Bght it

BLUES

strike bound London newspapers hung around the Reuters' office like men on the dole around an employment agency. They were all hungry for news from London.

out

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE WIRE JUNGLE.

I JUST ABOUT MADE IT!

THE FURNITURE

DRAPER-

HE THINKS COAT HANGERS ARE TRAPEZES

FOR MICE.

killed,

COM, ISS BY GENDRAL FEATURES CCL.

TMOWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

Just Clothes Hangers

WHEN IT COMES

TO REALLY CLASSY CLOTHES HANGERS YOU CAN'T BEAT

A PERFECT: THIRTY-SIX.

BY HARRY

GIVE ME YOUR THINGS —

I'LL PUT 'EM ON

A HANGER.

WEINERT,

"ARE YOU SURE

YOU KNOW HOW | TO USE ' ONE ?

SHOWING OFF BEFORE COMPANY,

FANCY JOB:

BEAUTIFUL

E47.

'acre

One solved his strike problem by building a splendid model airpland. For a week his office was turned into a carpenter's shop,

wood full of shavings and

smeiling of "dope."

The

result was a bright green high-wing monoplane with a three-foot wing span. Tarling trials were successfully carinh

to out in the passage,

the astonishment of the staff of an American news magazine, who have their ofices opposite. Another correspoägen:

tools wie to Hollywood

Easter.

But there was one good thing. Correspondents had time to pre- pare their tax returns, which are even more complicated then the British version.

YUM British hair cream YUM makers are sending out

shiploads of their pro- duct to the Gold. Coast, to meet a soaring demand for it among West African natives.

Not because of any sudden fair for slicked hair-it's just that the Africans like it best Zoz its quality as a sandwichi spread.

And the natives say. It tastes pretty good with strawberries too.g

Other sales boomst

Castor oil-also fine on bread. Perfume in which sugar cubes are soaked before eating

SHORTERA party of visitors from Stalingrad HOURSAN

touring a large British factory in the Midlands was told by the works foreman that

the

his men on day shift normally started t

at hel

morning

and

k

pasto

ཐ

With

·BOVE

smirk one of beca Russians pointed out that back home in Stalingrad a good worker would have started at morning and finished at five pol

Said the foreman: That's all rlatt in Brienia? But you couldn't do it here. They're at Com enundets in this place."

BRIGHT Auckland (NZ) dogs DOG

THE BUILT-IN OR COMM

UTER'S SPECIAL HANGER

Swad:

will be fixed to the