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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

and state-and a traverse, bourd elgarettes, with or without for recording courm1and - afters. tance.

The Mayflowers salts next LOST summer to the United States and

ART Canngla The cost in estimated to be £100,000. The ship will

recupture

•

Mr H. Salmon, of Lucu Avenue, West Ham, la

keen to form a club to

the "lost art of con-

be presented to the U.S. for versation.' He has invited al permanent exhibition 21 Pay- those interested to get in touch inouth Rock, Massachusetts, with him, but persistent grum

black will

not be eligible for

CHANGED Calle rustling is a membersoll says: "It would be

TIMES good, old-fashioned

American

aport Times, of course, have changed Smoking revolvers und clatter of home's hooves pluy small parts nowadays. And in Texas they now call it plain cow theft.

Bustliti. 1956 style. is done with high-powered trailer

people,

which could occasionally meel-- unt so much to air grievance, but to enjoy the mutual contact

nd interests, of mind

and

10 IN eu's the trend of events, to com-

THE NEW BOOKS

Mr Portway Packs A Rucksack

To Search For His

JOURNEY TO DANA. By

Christophor Portway. Wil- Ham Kimbor. 16s,

one of those Iron

whose widowers

witc went home to Central Europe for a holiday-and never camo Being

By KAY COLLIER

0

Wife

or

they were intercepted by the guarde.

He lingered in prison unsli Mr

Jut before Christmas (he had Interesting to learn whether

paper war with Czechoslovak military patrols, barbed wire, Ïct! London in November), small group could be formed in

an minefields, machine-gun towers, when he was told prepare CHRISTOPHER PORTWAY is Government in London in the the borough of educated and in-

effort to obtain Curtain

an entry vin and Abbatian dogs. "But given himasol? for a visitor. It was (ord

meinbers of ལ།

so that I could go and look for piece of luck I would take his wife. She had come to ask her. They replied regularly and them by surprise," he says, him for a divorce.

answer Wis politely but the back.

Mr Portway acceded to her In the end he lands himself request without argument and always No." resourceful a

in gaol among conditions almost ado, restraining stubborn-minded husband Mr

her departure foul to those he had only in order to ask her to plead By autumn he was desperate equally rucksack with Portway packed chocolate

and growing very angry. Finally experienced in Germany, during for his release. and cigareties and

he resolved to find out for him the war. "I was out of practice went to fetch her, visa or

self.

at the greatest spori in the visa.

world escaping." After all, he had travelled on fool

miles 000 guine

Beroes Central

Europe during the war as an escaping POW and he had anaged that without any visa. Dodging border patrols on the Czech frontier was not so very different.

tricks. portable slaughtering equipment. and all the finesse of a gh-class wholesale but chery business,

Jetween 300 and 700 cattle thofia a year are reported In Texas--most of them at this time

the year

pare the experiences or

and

To keep alive what has beerme almost a fost url, the art of coff- How else can the vemation cultural life be kep. alive

►

PIONEER y

One reason for He seusunat JET

the nature of the raids is that cold weather helps preserve the meut butcherest

the otal range.

But a lugger one is that the rustlers concentrate on yearlings

the during missed

amual roundups and "consequently LAY- branded. That not only means that convictions become diflcult but also thui often don't even know

prisc

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NIIT-

SUJIE

people, but Britain's Sir Frank Whittle was not the se may to think up or build a jet eireraft There was a j

lying when Sir Frank was still toddling at there years was built by sht in 1010 French Professor Henri Coanda of Peris, today, at 70 years old, adviser to the French Als ForeĽ rodd Navy

It

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He had fallen in love with |

called Dana girl

when her family had given him abeiter in

In farmhouse

the little Czech village of Kralovice.

him careless happiness

made then and he was recaptured by the Germans and returned to Indeed, so far ahead

But Inter he his PoW camp.

anct time was Professor Chandn the escaped successfully

back to England. hts jet plane was In the air The only

CVI Yours after the

more

ranchers they've been ruktect. Unbranded cattle are also uncounted radije.

To combat the

thieves,

of his

Texas Rangers -twowadays the Wright brothers made the first colourful

nume masks a fairly

Breraft light in history, ardinary slice

force-are

equipped he have

When Parisdans Saw the They

Connda plane at the 1010 Paris with

they

with rocked In case Air Show

An Areraft without the faughter

tails motorised traflets to carry horses they are forced to take to saidie off the male ronds. They a propeler Absurd! Professor

radio Courela turned to making farm

use helicopters, portable sets, and high-powered cars.

Pearl handled revolvers nre alnost ul. The law uses the ordinary police Issue

USELESS That ter-lips FILTERS arresttes

are

yi-

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tually useless

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deterrents. cigarette-poison The coniert d opron al the Swiss Society of Sports Doctors

The Swiss are heavy smokers.

large frac

5 Bunding materal (n. X✓ Cigarette einstumption tops 8,000

# Upsets ch

10 Keeps up (87.

12 Begun (7)

13 Run off (8)

14. Attempts (8)

10 Kinds (5)

17 Symbol ceria choвsword,--Arcoss?

Aris, 10 Earnest, 11 Hent, 12 Meie, 144 Depilers, 17 Treated 24 Ante, 21 cast, 26 Another The 18.

Down: Barrel. 3 Stared, 4 et 5 Elatest Last

Sell 13 Rude, in Ex. 10 Nie 15 itere 21 Battle

24 Daire 24 Actor

Bentars

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19

ude, 19 Aboul. Sell. 31 Redress. Tenor, 1 Ruska,

21 ters 23 Banke

million a year and

machinery

WANTED

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Becke they A LAKE

consider Jake

essential to tourist traffle. the City Fathers Innsbruck (which has Just abold everything except a lakes have deelded to build one. One mile long and half a mile wide the lake, costing £135,000, will

utf"t! #v * skating rink in winter

be

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tion of Swiss-nude elgureties are. A WILL, Five persons living nitted with Alters, to which the

A WAY

on the third floor makers attribute all sorts of

of un Athens house have, for the prat three weeks,

virtues

Society

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So he set off, for Czecho- slovakia to find his wife.

Newspaper reports about frontier spoke of police

His separation from Dana was endorsed presence

and confirmed in his

07 A Czechoslovak Court the same day, he was allowed to return

He wrote messages on paper epic's torn from a book of Goethe, and and the threw them 10 bread-boys home.

But and through his cell window.

(London Express Service).

TRAVEL WITHOUT HARDSHIPS

THY do we like travel books? Obviously because we have all the satisfaction of foreign travel without the hurd ships.

By NANCY SPAIN

It is no wonder, really, that to France. (She is only 10 s Jack then has harsh, indigestion- the time.) condured thoughts About vengeful American womanhood,

Then she marries the Dauphin ant his daddy dies, So she is football

and cafeteria, Queen of France. Rames, (Jacqueita is only "horribly dis Bo it goes on: the old, familist

In Sante appointed"

Fc, and

and story. Darnley Is murdered, learns to like it later, and even Bouwell varets

the Queen. subsequently

buying She is arrested. militory policeman in the British Anny

of Occupation that his

she of murder, of ploiting of haired

heaven knows what. And she is of Germany which he

trailed off [had "quietly nursed for a year

Fotheringny und eventually the oxe. faltered and died" before the and Jacquetta (Priestley

Hawkes)

All of which is all very well. misery he encountered there.

whose joint opinions bitter, of South Western

depressing - all America in horribly

But I think the story of Mary A civilian

JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW turns, Perhaps this is his way Queen of Scots is too good to

of being happy? But of one be told and Cresset Press

iti the form of IL

As soon as he was a civilian again he flew out to Kralovice nod married ban in a Hitle Czech church.

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Look nt the

which

Just-published has quite a nice time Account of the journeyings of Pots and earrings, thel famous knockabout fears that her husband will be

happy. He is morose, and by

husband-and-wife Lean

(Reinemann

Jack cross about)

Jack is never and

angry

10

She is accused

18.) have made my eyes stand thing he has made me sure: on watered-down novelette. Like out like hat pegs.

Mr Priestley's recommendation Henry Ford, I like my bunkum I shall never go anywhere near ncat. Houston οι Dallas, Texas. Which seeria sucti pity. be- cause I love American of kings. And And I simply dote on Lobster

Newburgh.

with

Familiar Story

For Jack went to Dallas and Texas; two cities ro- They had difficulties with the Houston. Czech Foreign Office in trying to

Rowned for their size, richness, Ket Опла

exit visa. But and devotion to oil wells. Portway finally flew home to i went to Albuquerque

Santa and

New London with his bride and look townships

Fc. her to his family in Essex.

It ownships more concerned was not without misgivings that dancing. weaving, pottery; and he had separated her from her

museums full of relics of Indian I But and Spanish culture. village lite and family.

From time to time they wrote vexed by Jean Plaidy's highly Dana seemned contented enough

to one another. And it is new romanticised version of the life us the wife of an office worker.

obvious that the only thing that of Mary Queen of Scots, retold was only after 10 months that

Texas has in comunion with New in the form of a novel, ROAD she suddenly developed home

Mexico is its hideous lock of TO FOTHERINGAY (Robert sickness,

Hale, 121, ed.). comfort.

Jack, after a hard day's jolt-

or

LIKE my history neat. Fur that reason I was mildly

"Pushing my suspicions aside, The Swiss

been coimununlgating with the saw her off on March 3 from ing in a bus, swigs "cascades of where Mary is a dear little girl Sports Doctors comments how outside world by means of

"They ever:

back hold

bucket attached to a rope. A

The part of the poisons reason their landlord has taken minimum

uwiy contained in the cigarette, but

staircase

10 try The interiARR t. 65 NI-

force them out of the house. diminished.

So far he hasn't succeeded. The "prisoners" are being supplied

A far f sportzmen lo train.

ing are concerned the duriors with foud by mene of the Lecommend they give up bucket and rope,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

-IT SEEMS

LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY.......”

AT WHAT AGE DO YOUR CHILDREN NO LONGER REQUIRE BABY SITTERS ? ANSWER · ·· WHEN THE NEIGHBORS START. ASKING THEM TO BE BABY SITTERS.

ONCE UPON A TIME BABY SITTERS KEPT AT IT FOR YEARS – IN THOSE DAYS

THEY WERE CALLED CHAPERONES.

"WE'RE SO DISAPPOINTED.

WE COULDN'T

GET A

SITTER /

LOOK OUT FOR THE

LAMP

WWAL

the

QUICK FLIPS

THE ENORMOUS SHADOW, by Robert Harling (Chatto and Windus, 128, 5d.). Journaute have such curious lives. Un- ravelling a spy casc that in- volves na M.P. called Chancu and a professor named

Lewis, who are both Communists, "our Washington correspondent falls in love with the professor's wile. This unlikely thle seems quite reasonable because it is so well. told. Real Fleet Street atmo

JAN.

by Stella Morton (Hodder

12. and Stoughton, 80). Extremely moving novel about a Polish airman who crashes in the south of Ireland, loses his memory, falls in love with an enchanting girl. Then, alas, he bangs his head and gets ja memory beck again and inds he is માધ 4 priest, Real Irisi atmosphere.

It all begins in Stirling Castle, Terminal," the Kensington Air

and writes her husband.

knocks back of five, playing with four other "Come and champagne" meet me here in

"roay mounds of Lobster New- tule month

girls of Ove all called two," she said.

burgh." He refuses "halves of Mary. She

meels

pour sphere. glam After

few weeks her letters

pineapples" but accepts little Dauphin, who is so sickly; "I have come to love you and faltered and stopped. He wrote my Scotches for "the road." to all her friends. "But from the

Jacquetta's plate, on the other be your playmate," she says, and und behind the Curtain

hund, is covered with Clune

"skinny embraces Him, And the Dau no reply." He goes on: "All fortillos stuffet with sludge and phin is ever so pleased. Then through the summer I kept up reddish stops."

she briskly signs away Scotland

Baby Sitters

"WE SENT THEM

TO THE MOVIES ---

NOW WE HAVE

TO BABY SIT.”“”

WHO'S

BABY SITTING FOR WHO 7

'I DIDN'T KNOW

WE WERE

"THROWING.

THE PARTY !

GOZA, 1986 BY GONDIAL PRATURES

CORE, THE WORLD AIUMTS KESKIVED.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT FOR TURNING- DOWN INVITATIONS.

BEFORE LEAVING STOCK THE REFRIGERATOR YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MANY OF THE SITTER'S

ASSISTANE WILL TURN UP

BY

HARRY

WEINERT

THE DOTING RELATIVES WHO PRACTICALLY PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE — THIS IS |FROWNED UPON BY THE BABY SITTERS' LOCAL,

IS IT ALL RIGHT IF I TAKE HIM

"TO THE MOVIES ?

"LET'S GO HOME-

SITTERS COST MONEY Į

about a

BLIND DATE, by Leigh Howard (Longmans, 12s. 6d). Maddening would-be thriller who keeps an man ས "assignation" with a young lady and finds himself left with corpse instead. He does manage to prove his innocence, but we kre never told who the real murderer is. Unfair to rendern.

DEFENCE SHOCK

'Russia is leading in atomic race'

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

REPORT on Russia's

A brot

in atomic science written by Harwell |ntom experts who visited,

month Russia last

has shocked the defence chiefs. It reveals that the quality and quantity of the atom scientistsn/ in Russia are far greater than:.. Western experts had suspected, even considering the surprising Soviet successes with

aro

atomic weapons, And the numbers still expanding rapidly.

The report warns that the Russians aro:

way ahead of... Britain in realising the import...!

ance of training top scientists and engineers for industry,

Unless Britain cản step up its output of highly trained special- ists quickly Russia is bound to

beat us in the industrial puch military

Yapplications of the atom, the

la believe. The

holes and plants.

Bridsh

which

ed

the

heor

exporta-visit- Moscow were atted with and there

top-quality equipment s

was no shortage expert men and women to use it..

Dr Basil Schonland, deputy chief of the Harwell atom, ste tion, led the team of eight. scientists who compiled the roes', port. ja t

..

<Rockat Projecte 3dj Peji Britain and America are tovh pool resources to build H-boml; # rockety ahead of the Russians,

Specifications for an:: Interag., continental Ballistic Missile a. super-V2 — as a deterrent, against attack have been drawn

defence

of

the

which intended for rep nowat the bombetaTS, HOLENE, but it