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THE UHINA MAIIL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1990.

Discipline? That word is banned

“D

My children must be HAPPY, not well mannered,

says the sculptress who is a mother-of-three

London.

ISCIPLINE," said Mrs Cun- Jiffe ан . she

'cuddled her

baby son, "is a

word I

loathe. I don't like any con-

by MARY HEWAT

notation of it. It makes me should have a career of crawl inside."

"dowdy and

my dresses pressing.

de-

Mizi Solomon had made her name with "un-man" shows In the U.S.A. before she met and - morried English author Marcus Cunliffe, cturer in American history at the University Manchester.

#

of

me:

Can the Future

Foretold?

be

chatting

had been about horoscopes. One of our guests, an eminent Q.C., said to

"Come, let's be honest. An Intelligent, sophisticated woman like yourself can't really believe in all this mumbo-jumbo?”.

So I started thinking.

The answer

a cautious, even a surprised, yės.

Making full allowance for the vast peerution of quackoty and rubbish that has inevitably gathered round this nge- Uld subject, I do think there is some- thing

to

For instance. Once you begin dabble in horoscopology you learn that certain Zodiacal signs have, a special affinity for each other (or vice veren), It is startling to apply this to various marriages,

Deeply happy marriages prae- cally always turn out, to result from harmonising birthday dates, CHURCHILLS

the

On a subjett-be honest now!—

that secretly fascinates us ALL

the China Mail nowprints CANDID OPINIONS by three shrewd and successful.people.

Yes, I'm sure

by PHYLLIS DIGBY

family fortunes. loves only the man greatly admire.

know mord subject,

about the whole

charac-

I began to do some research into the astrological teristics of people I knew Well anti whose birthdays I kohv. Tinte and time again the bap Atted,

My work brings me into touch with thany people, particularly

woman, and by learn- the tele Birindays I am at once given an in- sight into their strong or work traits, their temperament, their like. ly renction to given circumstances.

An odd and nice ex- perlence happened to my husband" and

MORTON m, a few years

Magazine sätter and besadmkihle z úhovi, mich wiern-sigh, diethy.

we

America

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Arst visited

were

We

Ironically for a woman who believes in a wis's career, she thought hers way over, But their commissions came rolling in: own. It makes life more in- for the Festival of Britain. them, for their designs for textiles, sculptures About that moment four-teresting for

husbands and for their chil- and stone carvings for schools, year-old Sharon upsot her dren."

councils, univerallica, cup of ten-flavoured milk So she works 38 hours a week

DEADLINE over the table. There were in her converted garage studio no smacks, no hard manual labour as well as

creative art. "I finished a panel This month Workumen no walls,

do- commotion at uil.

carving 40 foot long by 10 feet livered eight tons of Portland through the studio sky- Mrs Cunliffe said sadly: "Oh, high two weeks before Jason was alone

Introduced to a couple light the door was too small). dear, you've spilled it. Would born."

brand

with whom wo found ourselves you like same more, darling?" And she finds English mater- Mrs Cunliffe, wearing a

to the top of his chosen pro-

Can the stars really Infiverice getting on instantly like the pro- We may laugh and treat the Share sold: "Yes, please," did

new shoeling pink jersey and

fession, or ske Jund some whole thing as a joke but we our lives? Can wu read at least verolal house on fre. skirt, started work on a a Tarzan set under the table,

lucrative sideline that adds to will try to get the date fixed part of the future in them? sculpture for

northern "It is quite impossible after a and went off to the kitchen to

She for a "lucky" day if possible. Twenty years ago I would never Eventually my husband form- An eight-month cloth.

certain stage to hide the fact university.

Ho can After all, kings and emperors have thought so. get a

ed a pleasant and most satio- six-month dead- Mrs Cunliffe went on talking that you are expecting a child. job, with

factory business connection with (not to mention Hitler), used to AMONG famous married part-

I arst became interested when the husband, who is president of keep, their private astrologers to The one thing that demoralises line. Cunliffe, yau

But preasure of work

nerships I could instance, Sir Mitzi

the

Jate It. 1. Naylor offered to an Important US. company, is that you cannot wear

neglect for

Winston and Lady Churchill. Mizi Solomon of New attractive clothes. Therefore, you nu,

Often at a party I may meet read the stars for them.

cast my horoscope for me. More while I spent a delightful holl- They help." When He is a Sagittarian (birthday' a couple who are plainly not You children. In some highly

These horoscope books of ours or less - must wear bright colours.

as a joke I accepted, day with the wale at their coun- Listen to this getting along, 1 a middle their mother is working in clay, November 30).

find myself area · Transatlantic English Ideas about bringing up feel much less like

luxury then forgot all about it. I was try home. and Sharon work in extract- from my horoscopo cn- automatically trying to guess which you can buy for a few particularly busy at the time, children, working mothers and aged snek, as most women do, if Topi

plasticine. When mother- is cyclopaedia about the Sagit- their respective Zodiachi signs, cents at any drug store counter being editor of one magazine One day, quite by accident, dernity clothes, Furthermore, you wear a dazzling dress."

.stone they like to culting

tarian as a husband: she puts her theories to the, test.

50 sure I am that the root quit over there, Mine is sent to me and having just been invlied to wa discovered that she and f awn cholce: one gold sweep up the dust and collect

The

Sagittarian

share a birthday while our husband're in the marriage will be there, every year by, of all people, the bring out another. INSTRUCTIONS

lame, one bright red. This blithe the chips.

quires more than any other I'm often right.

exceedingly shrewd, härde

husbands wore born within 24 She bathes discipline. So her Iconoclast wears her black hair Even if they get into mis-

Zodine type a wise, tactful

The horoscope arrived. "You hours of each other. Two signs" new nursemaid long over her shoulders and cut chief in the studio they are not wife. This type of man is not instruction to a

Or perhaps some important headed women president of a

multi-million dollar fashion are about to embark on a new of Gemini and two Sagittariāns: ideally fitted by nature for business date has to be arranged. business, who carries hers round project it gaich "This will in all vast America! for the three children (Antonia, in a fringe over dark alant eyes. spanked.

domestic life. His interests in Will I or my husband commit in her handbag, consults it dully, not be successful." would never touch one of aged' tive, Sharon, and nine- She is tall, in her thirties, with

children," stiya Mrs Cun-

world affairs are great. He is ourselves without a struggle to and wouldn't be without it for month-old Jason) weret, "I don't an engaging way of looking nb- try

And I

any particular day which our the world, maa care what

are surbedly into your face as she liff. "I hate the Icen, their manners

had special little yearly personal like. Just Sex that they're talks....which, she explains, is think the way teachers in this

country are allowed to punish best be because she is short-sighted.

exceedingly broad- horoscope books have warned us happy

minded, at school is a most

free from jealousy, will be unpropitious? No. children

It is necessary for her con monstrous liberty."

tinually to widen her, own horizon so that she maợ 820 eye to eye with her husband.

York.

Her

"She believes in careers for Her voice is low, worm and

mothers still Amerlcon. women: "Wives and

Mrs. Cunliffe with daughter Sharon, aged four--"We sag os ogreenóły an possible..."

PARIS NEWSLETTER from

Ichi:

willl the

One of the secrets of calm veraus choos is the toys the children use most, and their bedroom.

OWN ROOM

for

For Christmas there was stopler which they Lise meting litle books, Then they draw plotures in the bocks. They have a mass of coloured chalks and

crayons, with clip boards for drawing, and a full-

size blackboard.

Their desk la six feet long, with offleo file drawers, and a Formien top. Their beds are double-decker bunks, where sitting, standing or jumping is bermissible. In fact, in their own room, they can do almost anything they please.

In their father's library downstairs they have their own desk drawer, "It is their favourite room in the house. We have more paper clips than they have."

Says Mr Cunliffe: "Children are difficult only when they are If they are well and happy they will be enormously social and sociable human beings,

"Of course you have to nag about table manners and things like that. But we try to nag as agrerably as possible,"

cipline,

As an ex-advocate of dis- I left the house convinced. The children are

a public man.

very fe of the mos

The

Now turn to Lady Churchill, whose birthday is April 1, and read an abridged version of the Aries wife:~~

These women make wonder- ful wives for ambitious men. They have brilliant fndepen- dent minds and, are witty, clever conversationallats with wonderful social presenon,

This is the woman who le happiest helping her husband

Uncannily 'right?

THE CHURCHILL FICHE Datarina (

dvice tolaki?

It

wasn't.・・ The magazine folded up a year inter.

of

most

which turned out "At kome astonishingly true,

extract, you are in

ORDAINED?

fuck is fore-ordained or that

sets the the astrological plan Of course not. final stamp upon human beings?

I REMEMBER

I still have that horoscope, Do I believe that good or bad CHE was horrified when she time during the year 1941" ran

10arned, that I'd been risking another years without one! Of course danger of a serious areident you choose the one that is causing Injury to your left written to fit your own' particu- ride.” lor birthday.

Heredity, upbringing environ- ment these ate the things that mould a character and shape a life. But they need not cance

influences of the

In 1941 I was in a ship that out the America is extremely horo was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic Zodiac.

scope conscious, and thing is that the men keen as the women.

the

odd

and my left arm was so badly ого

wrenched that it had to be put

03

"All bunkum, of course," several of them have remarked to me shamefacedly at different times, "but somehow it seems to 'get you ...

All this intrigued me clently to make me want to

A child's features will prob- into plaster and as a result I ably be a blend of his father's all have, a bone that gives me and mother's, but they will stili trouble.

bear the super impersonal cast of his particular astrologfent auffi- sign.

Some day perhaps, when science has travelled yet further Into spato, there may be lie- covered positive indications of astral or planetary radiation which will put the reading of horoscopes 913 a respectable Belentine footing and prove that, after all, we believera werd Fight!

THEY DON'T CALL THEM

A

TEDDY BOYS

~but the teenage gangs in New York are a bigger headache than in London. For one thing, they carry guns.

New York

DARK, undersized gangster of 17, who gloried in the nickname

From EVELYN IRONS

*.......................................ómhoathiristäbchende

Is it all a pure waste of time? I don't think so. All of us, women especially, feel a deep emotional need in our lives for colour, mystery, enchantiment. Perhaps a little mild magic now and then is good for us.

I am sure that this is one of the true explanations of the

usual tragic background — the daily horoscope's appeal for men broken home, the drunken an appeal so strong that most parents, the overcrowded teng-editors would as soon think of ment rooms, the trim poverty, scrapping "What the Stars Ford- But once in a while the "hood" tell as they would the financial comes from an outwardly haws or the avorte page. his 14-year-old girl friend. murderously buckled bella, in hospital, James told police respectable home, and the blame

I KNEW "Let

sawn-off who tried to find out who struck cannot easily be anifted from tell you some horie-made zip-guns, me

shotguns and revolvers. In New the blow: "I hate all cops. I'll the boy himself, thing," he wrote. "Don't York you can buy a "piece" take care of this in my own What is being done to store other day, at a party hang around gangs. Look (gang-slang for gun) for 80s, to way."

703. what happened to me."

charming individuals....and I of Tarzan, sent a note to mean individuals.

(COPYRIGHT)

SAM WHITE

MONSIEUR HERVE'S BOOK

PUZZLES ALL

ALL FRANCE

Paris There are

hints that the live left-wing majority NE of the most in- kept abreast of the changes ready

French Commundata have not possible without them, has Otriguing

a

Im

al-

for

"In

the rot? Recently Clovernor

given

the Press, I In Chicago,

Averell Harriman of Now York authorities my that indiscriminate beatings and lasued his yearly budget moss noticed the director of a large advertising agency and the Tarzan wrote from prison, The favourite weapon is the He is serving a sentence of switch-blade knife, You can buy kallings by teenage gange have age, and in the naked for a Women's Bege editor of a sober

reached such a pitch that they increase of about £700,000 to dally newspaper completely ab 25 years' to life because the Viceroys, the Dragons, the Al Capone mobsters.

that anywhere. All the gangs overshadow the exploits of the fight juvenile delinquency. sorbed in graph they Were

The kida he killed 15-year-old Billy Jesters, the Spanish Counts, the

New York City Youth Board, tracing with their Angers on a build up courage with seeky Blankenship by shooting Streaks, the Mighty Homans, the

have asked for about £1,830,000 wall. for 1955-57.

"During March," he was sayi (bencodrine him through the heart with Dukes and the other grandiosely Pete" a raw, cheng

bennfes titled bands carry them. a pistol in a

ing, the line shoots right up, and reefers (marijuana cigar UNDERCOVER MAN like this!" "But don't forget Bronx street

ettes) and roam the streets one fine evening last sum-

"I HATE YOU looking for trouble.

May," she said earnestly, Nearly half a million dollara May it has a very hasty dipl" mer.

The "giddlebop" or gang fight is budgeted for the Board's most They both looked solein. produced.

Tarzan was not alone at the strong

One Monday after lunch 14- is often reinforced by Debe imaginative experiment, which defections that have occurred in Russia "nostalgia" among

“Advertising or circulation?" I Socialista time. He was with a swarm of year-old Robert Kirby went to "Debs are girl gangriers. More started eight years ago. It is from the ranks of since Bielin's death.

and Radicals for a Popular young toughs in skin-tight jeans his classroom in a Brooklyn that 100 girl gange are affiliated system of indercover agents," inquired sympathetically.

and shiny leather jackets the school. A mug called the Cor- to boy teenage gana New the gauge gradually winning that!" they exclaimed, brushing trained men who infiltrate into Good heavens, nothing like Front. Communiam

The appearance of Com- Navajos, one of the Innumerable, sair Lords were after him be York, calling themselves by their confidence and becoming aide such trivialities. "We're mundsta Acquiring democratie gangs of teenage hoodlumns in cause he was trying to "date" & dimilhullvee of the gang tiles their place in France. It is that But it is some strange events habits will make the nostalgia festing the streets of New York. girl friend of one of their mem- pythonettes, Vampirelice had so gang members themselves, Once discusing our horoscope of a 48-year-old university connected with the book's pub- stronger. A point which has not

inside, they not as father to the for the year Americans, lication which have produced' been lost sight of here is the lecturer, Pierre Herve, & intense speculation

gong. It is a slow, patient

They had discovered they They punched, kicked and France. belief among those who know picturesque slang word for most handsome young man with The strangest of all is

In the "rumble or gang wire procom

were born under tho samo sign that the French Communist Party things, have fone for these thrice alabbed Robert, and left the Miris often exrry the gibs,

"But it works," a wild shock of wavy dark Herve has rat yet been expelled best is that Herve has always

of the ZodiaS, young thugs. When they dress him lying on, the pavement, aineo they are less likely Limn official of the Board.

ye baya hair whose wartime reais from the party or even formal had and sul retains very good up, discarding their workaday Unill the gang find no passerby the boys to be marched it, a now 44 in the field, in Harlem,

ly denounced. All that has hap- Ruslan contections, In short,

Jeans, they go in for peg-top dared to call for help.

police swoop. But more and the tough aroos of Brooklyn and tance exploits and savage pened is that L'Humanite has that he may have received some trousers and gaudy satin Jackets.

more the Deb gangs are acling the Bronx-all the worst gang- pen have made him some published a review of the books very strong encouragement But there is no American trans-

to

The same day a fight flared on their own, robbing other gris, indented districts of the alty, thing of an idol among in the circumstances, a sur- write this at this time.

lation of the British Teddy Boys, within another gang, the Aatoris, sumadmès cuting of their hair Hundreds of boys have becothe The American boy gangsters Gents, in another district of ans fearing their cloifier good, cliizens in "useful" jöbe French left-wing intellec prisly mild one-and the fe- view was signed, not by a

are even more deadly.

New York. Eighteen-year-oki

through the influence of these tuaks.

leading party member but with

Here they fight with brass James McGowan Won stabbed it

Behind most of the

ride mencorYOUT> a fictitious name.

knuckle-dusters, broken bottles, the chest. Fighting for his lito criminals Investigators find the

international

since Tite has just taken

SPECULATION

in

ADY

TWO PROJECTS Low Lort Norwich, DIANA COOPER, Now Herve, who was orice a Commmist MP and assistant, This was obviously intended has denied to me reports cur editor of the Communist daily to leave the party leadership rent in Paris of two projecte L'Humanite, has published a uncommitted on Herve's book credited to that sho k book while still a member pt for the time being. The fact is writing for mcincite and that the party criticising a great deal that, whether premeditate or she plans to remarry. of Communist dogma,

pot, the party could use Herve's. On the subject of book to further strengthen the memoirs, she made a wholly force of its present appeale to convincing denir. "Of course I,

filicals should write théry, I've known French Socialists and This alone in a good deal less for a Popular Front

that. for years, but the only curious than many of the odd Il, instead of expelling Herve trouble is that I can't write." circumstances surrounding the it bed lin to discuss bis book's publication. There are hit book in the party Press und sensations in the book, which is within the Barty itsel and ittle more than a mild plea for ever aderibed the validity greater/ freedom of discution

or some of his criticisms, to ICIAL leciton

* LESS CURIOUS

inside the Communist at text would take

Its central theme is aumined tremely effective "new look."

up in these words: "Communşirke

Loader'in France have credbati

a formidable theology, with the

result that truth

only to certain ro

RESULTS:

from the Wrench Equatorial

or an ex- berritory of Tog, have just

reached Parls, They are h followal Registered voters, 213,451) Ballote)

164,240. Electon Mouleur De Grunlizky.

150 SEATS

ÁR: NOVING VOCI - The arithmetic of the proment with a majority of 184,240. This

anotadine “Frürken" batlläfnant - with the ntpratni privet robust – has

to their pati in the party, Communista, bossing): 180) agāta: rumaltadi. in a candid, alaMOLLE, LIDE

bers.

who have Д

JOHNNY HAZARD

FAST STEPHAN'S TIME, DOMB AND HIS LIFE RUN || OUT. THE TANKER PLANE, BLOWN EASI

от

PHEW/CLOSE THAT TOPTÉR THAT. CLIPPED THE REFUEL HOSE KA SAVED QUAR LIVES? STEPHAN MUST'VE BEEN ABOARD THAT TANKER + YOU'RE SAFE HOW, MAKA PAMERICAN

By Frank Robbins

YOU HEAR, ALESE (YOU'RE ANIH P POOR OLD BUY, THEE STRAIN HUSTIVE BEEN TOO MUCHANES IPSED OUTZ,

chart

I didn't laugh. I understood completely.

(COPYRIGHT)

MONDAY: EDGAR

ALUSTGARTEN

........this situation calls for m

Can Miguel