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ZANY

by. Artie

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"Come on, make up your mind which boat you want to tako, Rita Hayworth!"*

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955.

Mr Lewis finds Faith PARADE

SURPRISED BY JOY. By C.

S. Lewis. Geoffrey Blos.

15.. 224 pages.

F

OR Professor Clive Staples Lewis (Medieval and Renaissance English. Cambridge) there is no doubt what is the most important event in his life

of 57 years.

11 occurs On

page 223 of his 26th

book

where

driven sunny

he writes, "I to Whipsnude morning. When

Was

one

we

A British Crossword Puzzle

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6 Gen (4)

Value (8)

11 Exalted

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ACROSS

1 Aldude (4)

2 Bundle (4)

1 Repose (4)

3 Parched (4)

(B)

13 Tumbled (4)

15 Vist with (8)

1 Takes away from 185

19 Advanced (4)

21 Condense (8)

25 Likes (8)

20 Legal right (4)

27 Calamity (8)

6 Elegance (3)

Banbard (5) Rušever (5)

10 Doctrine (5)

12 Slack (5)

a trip Zoo

-on to the

set out ! did not

17

Lowis.

reached

the

that Jesus Christ Son of God, and when reached the zoo, I did."

nged 31.

zoo by

WBS

believe the

11:

stages.

24

14 Musical instruments (5)

16 Purport (3)

12 Let full (5)

17

19 Clear (5)

20 Nominates (5)

21 Supasses (4)

23 Lake (4)

23 Way out (4)

2 Warble (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOILD - %199s; & Purkure, 4 Suvsil, 7 perendor, Ususe, Leader, 11 Pyroid, F "ecluse, 15 Abated. 16 Mei 1 Re- Lev. 20 Scene, 21 Solder. Down

spiser, 5 Vacant, a t

Untri, 10 Auril, 17 Deler

1 Petal, 2 Speed, 3 Endures. MANG

Navitecek, 12

13 Rumpus, 11

by George Malcolm Thomson

sincere and emotional. Once in Meased College Chapel, Lewis moved himself so much that he had to have the pulpit for a little to recover.

bad Backed by eleven hearts easy colleges, he was beaten in 1951

by Ceel Day Lewis for

con-

For some time before

he had beeni version,

uneasy about his atheism, although agreed admirably with his dis- like of ritual. vcclesiastics and church-going. Looking back on it now. The pokes easy fun BL his own pompous patronage of

the Christian myth.'"

'I GAVE IN

He began to fulk airily about the Absolute, then of "God," distinguishest sharply. from "the God of popular vellgloss,”

This be was led struggling and kicking, to the moment he In the Telnily recounts thus

af

the

¡ETS

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Two former dark facade vanished. In is place is gleam- purposes,”

one

RAIN OF A fine autumn rain a month. Nothing more drastic nothing. Whenever I have worn

I get a new Last than scrubbing brushes and cold out a pair, began to fall MONEY

weck on the villag water has been used. But the from a Paris frin-as long as I

tho

return the old ones, What for? of Talisaieu in

Ain effect is starling...

them has They use

for advertising department of southeast Fruned rain of, £60,000 in good |British_nroney.

ing whiteness. The Royal ArmS Mention Britain to any of the stand out with, now clarity: 383 inhabitants and they volun- pediments, particoes and pillars MAU MAU Girl friend trou- teer "Glorious country! Noble appear with unfumiliur fresh-

has landed right-hand cleaned

men of Mat Mau's two top

Mra

of

just

Paul

were

Mes and

31,

GIRL ROWS blo the

of

спра while out new women com- for his chief.

nights in haystack and beneath years ago hedges

over

women

people." In Tallssleu's one cate ness. there's a constant, clinking

The Palace avas last glasses us the white wine toasts only in the 1930's. It has taken gang-leaders in gol. General are raised

"Viye l'Angleterie! less than a quarter of a century Nynga, closest lleutenant

of Fint for Bravo for the Bank

the building to become Dedan Kimathi, the dairy clerk spent Sundays as he spent week-land."

crusted with grime.

AVD3 turned bandit king, garden. For the villagers have days, working in his

There can be few more strik-

of the tured by loyal Kikuyu demonstration? But on Sundays he gardened Inwon a three-year tussle Ring

rpying alighty MITC respectable | fortume lett to them by Mes poisonous smoke of the London

pinions for Full, Presbyterianism dies hard. Louise Allen

of Muswell H. atmosphere.

General Kahinga Wachanga, From Kirk, Lowis passed on North London.

No. 1 hatchet mat for rival to Oxford, to

died in 1952, 1914-18 the

Ailen

•18 war.

guerilla leader Stanley Mattenge, where he "took"

09. German Jooving £60,000 of her £250,-

shot dead his 10-man gang and prisoners ("that is, discovered 000 estate the village where KING OF Andre Billani,

from surrendered to the Gloucesters. Frenchman When TRAMPS to my

great rellor that the she spent her girlhood.

Bordeaux, clatins to

Jealousy

has 62-year-old crowd of field-grey figures, who the Mayor,

In 30 he be the king of tramps.

Isalved the four-map appeared suddenly

from no Mounet, received the news,

125,000 now

hierarchy ruling Kenya's terror- municipal years he has welked the

village where, all had their hands up"); called

visited miles,

five continents. Ists." to the philosophical pre- councillors together.

been the guest of exotic royal- Is

The original split occurred twờ made Trim occupations which

The village was dying on

of spent thousands

when 34-year-old "the most dejected and re-feet. The young people

Kimathi discarded Mathenge's Tucand convert in all England" deserting it. The land was going

sister. Lewis has sacrinees his fe-sour for lack of care: those who

Furlous, the conceited story in order 10 describe the stayed behind were living

He was in Vienna the ber is stmisery--and the village trea-

day. He had just walked from henge, aftyisk pilgrimage of pas who

"This legacy Germany and was making his Army corporal, led his 300-man sury was empty. "surprised he did not become a

the Levit Atheist, siric Intel- is going to save us," M. Mounet

way through the Iron Curtain gang into another part of of the type

Hungary Aberdare Mountains to opirale all tok the councillors.

for the Balkans-vla rules burred But exchange

and Rumanin,

on his own.

Berles of When the seconi transfer of the money. Other

The colourful og book he surrender taiks were Alarted legal snags upped up. "To the

the

with early this year. Wachanga was with all

banking keeps of his wander devil

of ometal stamps spokesman M Mounet sake, "I'm its hundreds

for the and signatures--Including that delegation in the forest glace going to get that cash."

of the Mayor of Moscow-ly his where Government officers and his baker's He left

He had passport. which hos nover yet teriorist leaders mot. travelled

Tints. 10

Who of bankers.

international lawyers, failed him. And he is sure that the blessing of Mathenge.

He read up it, will get him across the Iron

was eager to surrender.

But the talks came to nothing the law and regulations himself Curtain as it has got him across

of them the every other frontler, including when Kimatni heard and found a way th

and

some slaughtered the Egyptian-Israeli border banks agreed to accept,

Wachangu the time when those two nations vere at war.

techu

Oxford Chak of Puelry; it was his only academic selback.

Many readers of Surprised by Joy will regret That Low's deckted, at some stage in writ- ing it, to tell the story of his

fe as a preparation for his con- know." version. For he has gift ordinary

mundane autoblo- graphy. His ploture of his school Wyvern (Lewis was at Malvern for a year) during a bad phase in its history, is admirably and frankly done.

"for

JM

THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT, by Jim Bishop, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 18. 264 pages. JOUR-BY-HOUR account

rudes."

He paints an affectionate but Good Friday, April 14, 1805 exchange experts.

candid portrait of his father, Beifust solicitor with a declama- tory manner, who, having sent his sons to u public school, was

twn when

potilalle

schoolboys were duly rafurned

te him.

Tera of 1820 I gave in. a tinentitled admitleri that God was God, and knelt and prayed." In his room in Magdalen. From this it was only another long step 0 the zoo.

צן

To the zoo and what came after, when C. 5. Lewis, erudie tuter in Tibernture, became at Christian immensely popular

capable of making dialecticlan,

theology entertaining (see The Screwbape Letters 41 which Chris tan forth and morals

through ingeniously presented the eyes of a minor devil).

theologians The professional Įdespised; the public read.

BACHELOR DON

Some may have been FRIK verted; many more were con- strained to admit that, in the ruddy - Inced. pipe smoking. tweedy bachelor don, with the trace of Helfast accent Eng- Fish Christianty had found an astute new champion.

BEST PORTRAIT

Best portrait of all is that of "Kirk"

(De Kirkpatrick). The ex-Presbyterian, ex-schoolmuzster who prepared Lewis for Oxfer

A few minutes after meeting "Kirk"

at Bookham Station. Lewis, making conversation, sald he was surprised by the scenery of Surrey.

wilder NO much than he expected,

-and all that happened Washington relating io the Prezident starsination, Workmanlike Job of historical reporting.

SHAKA ZULU. By E. A.

tor. Longmans. 213. 383 pagos.

in

consulted

out the

So last week Mr H.J.F. Wi- son, British bank, envoy, walk Rit-ed into Tallssieu handing money 11 envelopes of village poor. It was the Drst in- stalment

Allen's Mry on £00,000

Mr Wison told the villagers

on them that he'd be calling

Christmas- about with more time and regularly after that. turning their

3 village inste

A BLACK Napoleon who in 16

Mathenge's

men.

Mut- and one-time

Mau Mau

ΟΙ

then had a row with Mahenge

and over his youngest sister was reduced to a 10-man com- mand,

"Nyaga, who once commanded

and

Kimatol's men

AWD3

boy, promptly

when captured,

forces

to to

1912 "I started ramping in when 1 was 15. It has got into my blood, and I consider my of life well spent on the roads the world. In four years time 250 I expect to have completed bright guerilla years conquered and pocitled

200,000 than

kilometres (130,000 offered,

lead

the sccurly an area in Africa larger

miles) and then I shall prob-

A special Kimathl's hide-out, Europe. Full-length portrait of

round a great savage.

feree set out but Now, with go-ahead plans for ally mure. A small house with Kim

vineyard near Bordeaux. ROUCH WINDS OF MAY.

nothing in the jungle diotator's by Nancy Hallinan, bright medel place, the people What is he going to live on? lair except dirty clothing.

Kimathi and Mathenge-both Austrailan millionaire, of Taliskeu are looking forward "An Gollancz. 15, 414 pages.

within

junglo a day's William Johnson, has promised based NATURAL-BORN novelist to a reay now era,

or a le me £7,000

pension march from each other are left "Stop!" shouted Kirk, "what

sufficient presents her first work: A

for my needs it I without their favourite seconda- do you mean by wildness and

in-command, not story, of young love set in Lon- what grounds had you for

A light brown manage the 200,000 kilometres,"

Their starving gangs are re- expecting it?" it was an intro-don. Notablo in particular for PALACE

duced to bolling young bamboo duction to a discipline in logic a convincing portrait

FACELIFT torpaulin is draped he replied. "I think I'll take the

perision." Over the balcony

shoots for food. Both men are which lasted all through Lewis's painter at genius. Real achieve-

250-year-old of

Buckingham Sunburnt and wiry,

of Andre wary and suspicious

cach but, ment, more promise. stay with his terrifying

Palace. On the spot where the looks good for good many other. They quarrel over their brilliant tutor,

Royal Family stop out to greet years yet. He was wearing a women. the people on great

A eccartons pair of corduroy trousers, stand three workmen in blue rough, worn tweed jacket and overalls, shirt-sleeves rolled up a part of stout boots. English poet's Journey From the courtyard below they "You must get through quite WHY WOMEN Many women

· overest through Spain, accompanied are hauling up wooden cradles a few of those," someone said. OVEREAT

emotional He han ajon ropes.

pointing to the boots. by a pretty woman,

for Spain. The The men are ccaring up "I have worn out more than Teasts, writes Mr JB Oldham, poet's eye in Spaniards have Spaniards' cyca after cleaning the front of the 60 pairs in my travels," he re- honorary surgeon to the Queen, in the journal of the British they Palace. This is taken just over piled.

cost me Dietetic Association. He for his companion.

"The simple fact is that they find solace in scones, chocolates and cream cakes for the same

that drive their huis bands to seek relief in the bottle," he writes.

Once Mrs Kirkpatrick invited seven friends in for bridge; by found some error her husband his way into the drawing-room. later he was discovered Hours He preached in Oxford, the elling on a stool in the midst streaterst pulpit "draw" since of seven elderly ladies begging Newman,

it was sold. HIN them to clarify their terms. arguments were cogent, as that There was only ono flaw of a Triple First

be, Kirk's logical Rationalism.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

shotki

THE STORY OF THE TRIP INCH BY INCH.

AND I'VE HEARD ALL I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT. TRAVEL BEING BROADENING

ITS A MISTAKE FOR A GIRL TO

TELL HER: HOMETOWA

BOYFRIEND ABOUT THOSE CHARMING

EUROPEAN MEN – ESPECIALLY WHEN SUPPLEMENTED

BYAN ALBUM

OF PICTURES.

"

OF COURSE I WENT TO ALLTHE ART MUSEUMS-

JUST TO SAY I'D. BEEN THERE-AND OH BOY?: DID MY

FEET HURT/Y

COPR, 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURIS

COMP. TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

A ROSE FOR WINTER. By Laurio Loo, Hogarth Press.

12s. 6d. 160 pages.

AN

Home At Last

BY HARRY

HE WAS OUR GUIPE

IN SWITZERLAND AND HE WAS JUST

THE CUTEST...“

AND I WAS AS

CLOSE TO HIM

AS I AM TO YOU !"

~NOW TELL ME –

'WHAT DIP: TMISS ?

•A JOY, TÔ BE HOME AND. THE LOCAL GOSSIP AND SCANDAL.

WUND

ON ALL

"But

WEINERT

TO HEAR SOME OF THEM TELL IT, THEY SPENT:

THEIR ENTIRE. VACATION SURROUNDED

BY CELEBRITIES.

THE DOORS AND WINDOWS SHOULD BE OPEN WHEN THE YOUNG “ NATURALIST UNPACKS - STARFISH DON'T LAST FOREVER. Y'KNOW.

POESNT IT MAKE YOU SICK WHEN YOU ARE ALL- SET TO TELL ABOUT YOUR TRIP AND SOME BORE

HAS TO BEGIN AND TELL ALL ABOUT HIS

reasons

for

He asserts that poor people" who overeat are likely to get fatter than rich people who overext.

The reason is that the poor person has more carbohyuran.

in his food.

has also been

suggested,

says Mr Oldham, that children of poor families with bad man- ners get the overcating habit for the rest of their lives through hoving to grab for food when. young.

In nearly all cases of eXCCAS» Ive fatness the reason is simple {---overeating, he states.

SERMON SNORERS

The congregation at Chesham Bois (Bucks) parish church can now listen to the Sunday evening sermon without, embarrassment. For The Snorer has been found

The Parish Magazino reports: Members of the congregation who sit in the back half of the church have come under a cloud; for every Sunday evening rhythmic sterforous sound as of someona sleeping has bees haard regularly during the sermon.

This has caused everybody to egund everybody else with #uspicion

But the culprit-or rather culprits, plate

for they are a corn-

been family have And will be dealt with. wire netting to the trefoil- headed air-vent under the wast table

of the church has broken away and a small, community

of Jackdaws has taken up realdença between the roof and tho wooden celling of the navo

Lulled by the sound of the

bells every Sunday they re- gularly millia down here, and by.. sermon timo uro sleeping con- tentedly but noisily.

APPLE To dest the theory tha! TEST

"Man," "apple" a day keepe

the dentist away," the: Liverpool School of Dentistry 17 carrying out a two to three years' experiment on local school child will be given an applb.,

Some

After moals and others will not. Then the children will ho examined to soo 3 the apple, baa any beneficial effeo!

on thefr dõetu

A National Farming Undori spokesman says that dessert apple growers from Kent," and the other fruit-growing counities have contributed, ovest 100, sufficient at pikore. Vidithio mape: pentmenthomź, tim-Geraled;;out-tote the first your