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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"For Heaven's sake, child, da at least try and LOOK as though you're enjoying yourself!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.
SIR WINSTON CALLED
IN A GANG-BUSTER
-and he solved the fishpond mystery
ROBERT
BLAKE on BOOKS
T was only when he was made head of Eng- land's most secret organisation that Sir Percy Sillitoe became really well
It this fact in his known to the general public, amid a blaze of publicity, memoirs." Perhaps he was Constable Director of M.1.5 from 1946 unlucky, for even in these to 1958, he buzzed from journalist-ridden days it is capital to capital amid a not impossible to keep out blaze of publicity. He de- of the limelight.
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4 Assesses (8).
8 Siren (8).
10 Offspring (5).
12 Charge with gas (6).
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27 Expunge (8).
29 Tolerate (5).
30 Unruffled (6).
31 Inciting (6):
32 Find the answer (5).
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2 Darkness (5).
3 Dismal (5).
5 Operatic song (4).
6 Not in view (8).
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21 Finiton (8).
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14 Changes course (5).
15 Perfect (5).
26 Vegetable (5). 18 Spare (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Spilling, 8 Ahon,
9 Retreats, 11 Operated. 13 Defy. 15 Pastimes, 18 Detailed, 19 Read, 21 Tolerate, 25 Detained, 26 Fond, 27 Redolent Down: 1 Dado, 2 Tome, 4 Poe, 5 Lard, 6 Inane, 7 Gusty, 9 Rabid, 10 Tenet, 12 Peace, 14 Fleet. 16 Melon, 17 Saved, 19 Rider, 20 Acted, 21 T1, 22' Lean, 23 Agos. 34 Eddy.
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Naturally and properly, Sir Percy tells us very little about his work in M.I.5. The obligations of security make revelations impossible. It is therefore difficult to tell how successful he was in his post.
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A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS.
of
Tyler never went back to the Crown and Anchor, though, The then Lord Mayor of Lon- don kalfed him berore he could do any more damage.
HENPECKS' Almost ary Qualifications for entry: "All Tyler the was called Wat the HIDE-OUT night at the candidates must give details of tiler, in those days) got a place
Hollington Oak of unfair rolling-pin rule to the in British history
for-killing pub, three miles from Hastings, full satisfaction of experienced a tax collector because he mid England, you can hear the noise. President Denny Mitchell,” something rude to his daughter, a march on London, It is like a low wailing, and it
President Mitchell plans A
Southwark FTLOR, suspending the Glasgow Car- comes from a group of men in
Convention of hen- plundering Lambeth Palace poration and putting a com- a corner
tap-room. summer
murdering the Archbishop Phrases. like missioner in its place.
"threw a rolling pecked husbands and will rally
Canterbury and breaking into is an enjoyable This
snd pin at me...." and "wouldn't them with a cry: "Hepecks of readable book. Sir Percy is let
You've nothing the Tower of London, to the football Britain-unite! me go modest, but it is quite clear maich............ mumble out into to lose but your ball and chain,” is, however,
he
for as a Chief that
was responsible the smokey atmosphere, that Sir Percy many invaluable innovations
boxes, refrigerators for Above the men is a pin-up of Sioe has spent most of his police
radio career, and of his success in corpses,
equipped cars Marilyn Monroe in black lace that field there
can. be no to mention but a few. Also he undies,
forgot the importance doubt whatever. He first came never into prominence as the man of looking after the health and who smashed the gangs which welfare of his men from police plagued the streets and public constable upwards. houses of Sheffield.
After
Glasgow he went as He did this by recruiting and Chief Constable to Rent, and Who are these men? They a special had the arduous job of organis- | are members of the exclusive training in Jiu-Jitsu
renowned ing the passage of road con- Hollington squad of policemen
Ook for D-Day. Crime was, Club," a society for the protec voys for their size and strength. one of them could hold seven however. less
rampant,
The tion of husbands against nag- tennis balls in his hand and
rolling - pin - throwing instructing them to seize with reasonable force" any gangster whom they caught breaking the law.
The light wailing starts after tea and goes on each night until closing tihe,
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FAMOUS More of tumbling
down medieval Eng- PUB
land is to get a face lift. It's no great castle this
JOB FOR
4 dozen ume, but a little pub in Dari-
barne- and BACHELORS engible ford called the Crown
starwa Anchor that's leaning so far new job in London this week- across the High Street it looks picking a new kind of pertume like falling any day.
for women. They had to nëve a hose IUT expensive perfume, be
It has stood pretty straight Henpecies' for six or seven hundred years
until recently.
It costs an out-of-favour hus band about a penny a week to be a member, and there are stiff fines for slow drinking.
most serious was the disappear- ance of large number of valu able fish It is true that some of the
from Sir Winston wives. alarming breaches of security
Churchill's ponds at Chartwell. in the cold war occurred dur-
Sir Percy was able to identify ing his regime; the cases of
This policy proved so effec- the criminal-"a heren—and so Fuchs, Pontecorvo, Burgess and live that in the end a couple of to assuage the Prime Minister's
had only to wrath. Maclean. But it would be very these policemen unfair to blame Sir Percy enter a public-house for terri- Sillitoe without far more fed gangsters to remove them-- evidence than can be available selves without even waiting to at present.
He rightly points. Anish their drinks. out the enormous difficulties involved in creating at fool- proof defence against these sinister ideologues,
Nevertheless, he is inclined to oversimplify the issue, when he defends M.1.5" on the ground. that Pontecorvo, Burgess and Maclean could only have been imprisoned in a country organis- ed on Nazi or Communist lines and goes on to say:
in
such
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Sir Percy then became Chief
Constable. of Glasgow-a ciły which was at this lime (1931) riddled with corruption and dominated by street gangs even incre. brutal than those Sheffield. Their murderous brawis
'were exacerbated by relig religious feuds, and the "Billy Boys," who were Protestants, held a regular church
parade
And the locals want it re- stored because apart from being a pleasant place to spend an evening the Crown and Anchor Tyler, who led the men of Kent In rebellion against King Rich- ard 11 in 1381.
is said to be the home of Wat
THE COOKERY GIRLS TRY
AN OLD-WORLD COCKTAIL
From EVELYN IRONS
Jors
an eye for a pretty sure, “cultured and discerning"
Why men?
Said the chief of Belavelle
Beck:
Cosmetics, Walter
women buy. pertume manly
for the benets of men,”
The bachelors-picked from more than 30 who applied for be the guinea-piz job-will given three different kinds of perfume to try on their girl. Friends..
GRAND FEAST
*
A
hundred and: twenty-five fat men and women had 1 special meeting at the village of Cavour near, Turia last week. Purpose; to have a big lunch,
After 12 underfed-looking men had been weeded out of the special screening by restaurant Giovanni Genovesia owner
(213 lbs) for being under the
New York. THERE is going to be a cot CRAZIEST fashion for years MORE than 200 "home fable adelion to Broadway's he faces with four-inch high in which they marched through science girls to you) held a Monroe three storeys high, with the toes,
monster figure of Marlyn sole but one tiny strap across ly clean up-hors d'oeuvres of
on Sundays and Saints' Days
the area
and supreme.
occupied
by their
I myself would rather see two or three trailers slip
enemies, the Catholic "Norman party in New York which a non-stop whed machine blow- through the net of the
Conks,"
provocative would have staggered their e her pleated skirts. Security Service
singing than be 2 taking party lọ the
Congs. of mea-
opposite numbers in London. This will go up next month They seldom reached church. sures which would be calcu- Indeed, long before that, riot gathering were high-up execu- a Alm version of the hit play Most of the elegantly dressed on the front of a cinema where lated to result
pandemonium reigned lives. earring something like The Seven Year Itch, in which regime,"
It was difficult to £8,000, £8,000 or £10,000 a Marilyn Monroe stars, will be This is not the point No one break these gangs, especially as year working for feed firms. wants to make the liberty of.
the leader of the Billy Boys" was not a criminal in the In the end he ordinary sense.
for the unusual was arrested offence of being "drunk In charge of a child"-aged, three power and responsi--whom he insisted on carrying concoction.
through a riot as a sort mascot.
the subject dependent on the
whims of M.I.5 but even in
a man
our free and easy country there are some alternatives between pulting
in prison and leaving
position immense bility.
him
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of
The party was a luxurious apartment en Park Averc-an apartment embellished with tapestries and sculptures.
shown.
cold salted pork, beef and Women tolter siery Fifth tongue in jelly; cold roast veal Avenue in these heelless mules with tunny-fish sauce; Italian like characters from the Mikado, salad; asparagus
with souce
processing BARBERS'
essential TALES
Tartare; boiled pigs' feet stuffed A NUTRITION specialist,
mashed sajami meat, of William Martin
New with York, told a conference in potatoes; trout; mixed try, con-
somune: roast
roast chicken, California that although Ameri-
more best-fed Lamb with cans are the world's
asparagus; people they are worse nourish fruit salad and a 2 ft high, 3 ft plus 12 different EVERY career boy and girl id than the average Europeans. wide cake,
He said that the should learn to type-it is
poor quality kinds of wines, liqueurs and essential for most starting jobs
of food produced by osdl de-coffee, And what did these dietetic if only for writing one's own fesent in minerals and organic matter was further depleted by drink?
An old-world letters and reports.
and refinements It was made by scaling a That is one from the 10 rules which remove cupfull of a fresh herb (sweet tr
drawn up by vitamins. woodroot) in a quart of brandy "placement directors" at New was er tight hours; straining and York's four municipal colleges NEW York's top photographie back and side haircut. The Eventually Sir Percy
adding
quarts of Rhine wine: who help students to find cm- mats, but fallure even to uble to break the Glasgow
bowl containing ployment, pouring into suspect them until they actually gangs as effectively as he had fed the country.
broken those of Shefeld. He; emplying a quart of cham- pagne into the lot; Anally de- was also successful in destroy-corating with halved straw- ing the municipal graft which berries. had become so bad that at one This does not serve 200 people time the Secretary of State for -only 24. Quanüties were Scotland seriously considered I multiplied for the party..
What the public has criticised is not failure to arrest Ponte. diplo- corvo and the missing
*Cloak
Without Dagger, by Sir Percy Sillitoe, with a fore- word by Mr Attlee (Cassell, 158).
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
GIVE
YOU A
LIFT, PAL?
"
WHO IS THE CHARACTER HAVING HIS PICTURE
TAKEN ?>
THE CANDIDATE
RETURNS HOME TO CAST HIS VOTE
THE PARTY WORKER ACROSS THE STREET WHO NEVER GAVE YOU A TUMBLE SUDDENLY BECOMES VERY OBLIGING
"IT'S ALL
VERY. CONFUSING
THE STRONG WILLED CITIZEN REPULSES
ALL EFFORTS
· HE KNOWS WHERE |HIS VOTE IS GOING
AND THAT'S THAT.
SURE, I KNOW YOU CAN WRITE -
JUST MARK X
POLLING PLACE
·** YARD
› ALL THE SAME
SAMPE
of
six
Notes On Votes
"WEAR A BUTTON, SIR ?"
COMING TO THE AID OF THE PARTY ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PARTY IS GOOD LOOKING
JUST TWENTY-ONE AND RIGHT ON THE BALL
THE POLLS DON'T
OPEN
UNTIL
·SIX- BUB
mzduates
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Up in Sunderland the younger ele- ment generally are
no longer content with a "short
modal, slim, 5tt sin Jean young-man-about-town now
Patchett she is paid £17 -178. an hour—got where she is be
of a male at the corner Another tip-"Be willing to cause go where the" career
tor of her right eye. often the best openings will be Advertisers like the moje far from home. About 7,000 much that she vicw accentuates students graduate each year it with eyebrow pencil from the four colleges,
making up.
BY HARRY
OF COURSE I'LL VOTE THE STRAIGHT. TICKET. I NEVER VOTED FOR ANYTHING CROOKED
IN MY LIFE!
GIVING THE POLL WORKER THE WORKS
DON'T FORGET" WHO I TOLD YOU TO VOTE FOR
WEINERT
THIS IS ONE
TIME HE CAN DO.
AS HE PLEASES
"AHEM-THE TREND SEEMS
TO INDICATE THE
PARTY WITH THE MOST VOTES WILL
WINEZ
GETTING THE LOWDOWNĘ FROM PROMINENT CITIZENS
when
seems to prefer such hair styles 13 a "D.A.", "South Bank”, “Boston Crew" or "Tony Cur- tis," which often involve a per- i manent wave,
Apparently films and TV are Edictating men's hair styles to a
great extent,
Notable tastes are those ac- quired by clients from Forces service in Italy where men, particularly In Naples and Rome, like their hair long and curly with a clean cut an inch above the collar and liberally. sprinkled with sweet-smelling olls.......
***Perms" for men are also on the increase, and many hair- dressers have to make a regular 'study of the new styles to meet the requests of style-conscious clients.
There is, however, a relus- tance among many of them 10: have a "perm" while other cus=" tomers are about-it is usual, for them to make appointments to have it done in the quieter periods of the day, even to the extent of taking an afternoon. off work.
THE MINK "A mink's just
bit me,"
com BIT HER
piained a woman Lo the Duty Sergeam at South- sea Central Pouce Station-and sne showed him a nasty bite on ner hand. Since women usually wore mink and dian's get pien by it, the Duy Sergeant asked she was quite sure. Yes, she was ctriain. The httle thing was meandering along Guldhall Square; it stopped at her feet; sne stroked and it bit her. Besides, a woman ought to know ilik,
The Duty Sergeant felt there must be something in it, so armed with the station waste- paper basket, Constable Georga Rivers was detained for special duty at the last known position of the mink, a semi-aquatie: re- fugee from North America Soon he spotted the Like all other mink, it was, zot amenable to human companions and hastily retreated. Nothing daunted, PC Rivers advanced, the wastepaper, basket in
trons
mink.
of him ready for the drop. The mini got tired of retreating and "which", "was its un-
advanced
doing w
consiable: pounced with a perfectly timed scoop, and freedom for the meandering mink was at an end. Duty done, the constable wrote in the Lost and Found Book; "One mink (live).
It was, however, soon claimed by Mr. D. J. Taplan, a local mille roundsman, who is also an amateur mink breeder. He has 30 of them. his home, some from Zamour North American strains. In between his daily rounds ha tends the min and checks the condition of the peits, which are 'destined for the great Hue sorting houses: of the world,
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