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WIKITRE
speaking abowe Simmoni, 1 can't undersand how some people to become American
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'THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12,
PARADE
BEATING Taxmanahip, or no except the THE TAX art of beating the year are
gentleman
Bible.
1956.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Bales this so far 100 percent from ahead of last year's Other while guides are selling nearly as
well.
the revenue department staying out of gol, is what the Late O. Henry wed to call "unillegal activity,
which
The
on
There is now a Tax Book Club and a monthly magazine devoted to the ans.
An unillegal activity, as the Auto of
Gentle Grafter Mr T. Coleman Andows, who, would have explained is one for not long ago, was the nation's Commissioner be Internal Revenus
has
recently described the pre- sent rates and set up na the greatest
potential that anyone has ever thought of for making out of us a nation of lians and cheats."
i
you can't netually locked up, but...
Anyhow taxmanship in the us thriving a U.S. La currently business as any you're likely to
A Lox guide
written by has sold 13
last
find.
Mr J. K. Laser million
copies in the years or more than any
A British Crossword Puzzle
#2
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ACROSS
3 Trouble-maker (8).
8 At a distance (4).
9 Ingredients (8).
11 "Soft" drink (8).
13 Goods vehicle (4).
is Tradio (8).
18 Takes
$5
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13
17
18
away from (8).
10 Writing-table (4),
21 Abandoned (8).
20 Got ready (8).
20 Tumbled (4).
27 Hangy (8).
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Bucket (4).
2 Quiet (4).
+ Foto (4).
Volume (4).
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7 Out of practice (0).
9 Finished (5).
10 Proclamation (6),
12 Cult forth (5).
14 Caper (8).
18 Allude to 18).
17 Went wrong (5).
19 Drugs 19
(5).
20 Puces (5),
21 Venture (4),
22 Tear (4).
23 Nouton (4).
24 Narrative (4).
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book
24.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,—Across: 1 Candid, 4 Eject, 7 Absolved, & Exile, 9 Hamper, 11 Serpent, 13 Muddled, 16 Untrue, 18 Rales, 18 Scatters, 20 Stern, 21 Emerge. Down: 1 Clash, 2 Droop, 3 Diverse, i Endear, 5 Engineer, 8 Threat, 10 Meditate, 12 Educate, 19 Morass, 14 Lessen, 16 Tithe, 17 Ensue.
11 Is, perhaps, lucky that no government has yet Amerjesh managed to equal the lax ruc- ture of its British counterpart.
LOST Ex-King Leopold claims the CITY to have discovered
Just city of Santa Marin
Arab Legion are giving instruc...
on in military subjects.
Last wook the wrinen
introduced **soldiers" wero the Thunder-flash". When one of these was exploded at their class in a girls school
few
to
hflood through France, Vembu proposed and Gloria refused.
Finally, at Perpignan in the his Pyrenees, Vembur made death--glory stand: He stuck and in his mouth a revolver
the trigger threatened to yards Inern the parliament unless Gloria changed bec
Terrified, Gloria dashed for se, soldiers came running the door. She mistook a French |
.
ol
for
found only a coup
the
and dpor Dest
learning window Women readiness under fire.”
plunged 45 feet to the ground. Filled with remore, Vembu collapsed.
The women are making their CAND uniforms, which will in
When he came to he was in clude battledress trousers,
That
gaol. Ho had forgotten to buy tra- wil
shock, the ditionalists,
allcence for his gitn but we cannot fight
She sparined And Gloria? in skirts,"
Bishorat, her ankle. Misa sald a Christian An here
e city where many Moslem Women never appear In the streets without their
Eacces behind black volls.
NOT
concealed MAN'S Man has made a germ
GERM
Step toward the goal of creating life in On the New York Post a test tube. Nobel prizewinner Office there's a blazing De Wendell Stanley reports that
La Antigua del Arlen, founded by NEWS Inscription which Insists the University of California hos
to
the Spaniards in the Panama isthmus in 1510, according Bolgian court officials,
Leopold an ardent explorer -discovered the lost dly during three-week trek into the denie South American Jungle In January. He was helped by two hoicopters.
Aral weal to Leopold
the Isthmus
He spent in 1854. months in the jungle Imcing the route taken by Vasco do Nunez Balbon, the sixteenth century cxplorer who "discovered" the Pacific. Leopold stumbled upon The lost city then. He kept the
secret.
returned thin your to co-
clolm
Trophies collected by Leopold during excavations on the stie of the old Spanish town-they are being studied by experts-in- cluded daggers, stirrups, nails and pottery.
JORDAN'S More then 120 WOMEN
宮 women have listed in A
voluo Leer corps formed by & 38-year – old Jordan citizen who sponds her evenings studying for a London University law degro The women, including students and professional women, have ali signed undertaking to serve in the front line if needed should there be war in the Middle East.
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Miss Emily Bisharat, a mild- looking woman with tremKI- dous energy, fortned the corpa as part of her campaign for
votes for women in Jordan,
Her "goidlers" are studying the Bren and the Sten because she believes Jordan's new gov- ernment is more likely to grant votes for WCAWAI when they show what they can do with modern weapons.
Although the corps is a vicdun- tary formation, officers of the
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
¡YOU`POOR BAP! DIDNÝ YOU KNOW YOU COULD
SNORT
DEDUCT ETC.
ETC!
WE NO SOONER. PAY OUR TAX THAN ALONG
COMES A TAX-WISE GUY WHO ADDS A
HEAVY TAX ON OUR MANNERS.
IT'S A CONSIDERABLE TAX OM OUR PATIENCE WHEN THEY WANT TO SPILL THEIR TAX TROUBLES, JUST WHEN
WE WANT TO SPILL OURS.
"YEP
PAYED MINE
MONTHS AGO!"
that "neither
show nor
rajn nor heat nor gloom of night" shall daunt the postmen in the "swifi completion of their ap- pointed rounda".
It does not mention dogs, Dogs it seems-jokes apart- are more than postmen can tako, Last year 6,880 U.S. postren were often. Some 4,400 re- quired medical attention and 500 were out of action for at least n day
All dog owners in the U.S. will now get a letter from Pust- master-General. Arthur Summer- ield.
Please, it says, keep your dog on a leash during normal mall delivery hours.
growing faith MAGIC The
Africans of
311 the SHOTS
healing powers of in- jections and The high prices they are
for prepared to pay. them has crested
black market in drugs in Southern Rhodesia,
Penicillin Bnd
sulfa tablets are disappearing from hospitals and clinics hüd finding their way to African townships and reserves where the witch doc- tors are facing a slurp and a "hot" of penicillin costs £1 or
more.
Today,
the Injectionis arc only cure that many Africans will accept for any
allment, says the superintendent of the Salisbury, General Hospital in Mr J Robertson.
hospital and African
clinic slofts, with wages of only few pounds A month, are
take strongly tempted to
ad- vantage of their positiona. In- Jection syringes as well as drugs disappear regularly.
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LOVER'S Hopefully Vembu LEAP
Maganath Tulsi pro posed to his American girl friend Gloria. She refused, Again and again, as they hitch-
created an artificial virus in a test tube from synthetic nuclele acid canpounded by Dr. Severn Ochoa, of New York University.
But the scientists have a long way to go. They have still to and an animal or plant in which the virus can reproduce before they can claim to have created i bit of "life."
Summarises Stahley: "We have a virus in search of a hoot.**
John
his
producer NEW Film STAR Jusion kept open
telephone line from London hotel one night whlie a secretary in New York placed a receiver against a television set. For a charge of $465, he heard
Californian Jockey Bill Pearson vin the 504,000 question jackpot. Then Huston told Pearson be would co-star him with Gregory Peek in "Typee," a sequel to to be made in "Moby Dick," Tahiti soon.
STATE BARBERS
Now it's the bar bers Capitalist, kulak barbers in East Germany are being put out of business in Communist East Germany. Several have already gone in Magdeburg.
Deputy Premier Hans Loch isas only explained that bering In to become a nation- alised trade.
The arst People's Barber is already dipping.
of
bar.
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
by Walter
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
POOR HERBIE
SO FAT...
HEAVY WATER.
WAS
(and even worse, he was clever)
over
THINKING ahead, the (Felicia), a serengile girl, and all its aspects the Old. Cock is most obstinate mem- his enemy, strong, stupid Lennie oratorieally, philosophically and Especially Krieger, who takes care to see physically opposed. bera of the
non- that everybody
In the camp oratorically, eg, on trade union reading public realise that knows that Herbie's nickname lenders.
"They've a time may come in the next le "General Garbage, **
got all the wrong
the all Triumphing
and
right few months when they will
every feelings handicap, Herbie
spilt liko rotten want some holiday reading the hero of the camp, although taters they are off their chumps,
emerges as thoughts, "But The problem
which his triumph is haunt by my friends, loopy, barmy, gene book?" need no longer per- and founded on crime. Herbie mits, plain crackers, and the less they do for us the better off In "The City his "borrowed" 50 dollars. plex them. Boy,"
Wouk by Herman
However, all ends happily, as we shall be just doing what wo The sentence flows on for a (Cape, 158.), a fountain of should in a story intelligent, fed like...
touched with the gold of child-
But that is enough to humour and humanity plays hood and exhibiting its author while.
the quality and pro- through 347 pages. This (The Caine Mutiny) in a new
is a delicious, comic and and genial light, convincing account of a few months in a boy's life.
ever, or at meets little Laucille Glass.
A
Under-dogs
MANKOWITZ
display fusion of the Old Cock's monologues,
Markowitz is the folk-port
1 for
A nice cry
of London, E.1. His imagery Little Herbie Bookbinder WOLF
is rich, his characters are both His story earthy and fantastic. from W the aide of the under-dog. scarcely of the Bronx suffers
matters. Enough to Indeed, he is looking for an two afflictions; he is clever
stem battle, say that, after a the side the Old Cock remains master of and he is fat. When first we under-dog to be on
And in of
"MY OLD MAN'S A
A his rubbish dump. make his acquaintance he
DUSTMAN" (Deutsch, 109, (d) This is hardly vintage Manko- has an additional trouble, a
he finds him on an East End witz; its course talk may dis- His beloved refurre dump. He is called the tress some of his old customers. broken heart. teacher, Miss Vemon, has Old Cock and be has a trusted But vitality, gusto, a rude lyric
accomplice named Arp.
quality here they are! married a Mr Gorkin.
Arp has not had anything to Herble will never
recover say since a bomb felt near him from the shock of this betrayal, in the war: the Old Cock fought
not for a3 Icast
at the Battle of Mons and has
LATHER round, friends, Bring good hour, at which point he been tallding over since.
nice big pocket handker- He Is an under-dog with Girls are peculiar and usually enough panache und violence to chiefs with you and get ready "THE FIVE FATHERS OF repulsive, aly, squeaky beings
by Ira Avery (Victor CHAMPION 76-year-old to be regarded with contempt up a battalion of supermer; PEPT
ripe personality with an over- Gollancz. 10s 8d.), a little novel Matias Gonzalez, Every year or so, however, in ripe vocabulary and he makes about Italy by an American. Pains, their impromising ranks, a comfortable living by finding Something happens to Americana FATHER is reigning champion father of radiant exception to every rule objects d'art in refuse
dump when they stay in Italy; some Spain.
wife-58m sppears, such as Lucille Ginse and selling them to Rambam, a thing mells or, at any rate, goes year-old Maria Gil-have just Το be near the beloved, dealer. Hy wages war without a soft and gooey and through won the annual £5,000 Franco Herbie goes to a holiday camp trace on rules against Bates, the
write novels tears they award for the couple with the fe
accompanied by his borough coundl inspector. like The Five Fathers of most children. They have 22-wright and incapacity for manly Bates is a symbol of the world
It tells how Pepi, a little and 20 of them live at home. sports,
Fleece of work and order to which in aged six povero!, wanders over talls and is unofficially adopted by Giorgio, who
his Is almines, handsome, carefree and a bachelor. In his guardianship, Giorgio
assisted by four friends in the villege. But the situation cannot last, Glorgio must marry Maria, and Maria refuses to be stepmother to a small boy whose father appears to be a committee.
There seems to be only one way out, A wealthy American tourist couple must be invelgled into adopting Pepi and carrying him off to a palace on, say, Long Island.
He and his
Taxing Situations
WHEN THE KIDDIES. TAX YOUR ENDURANCE,
JUST REMEMBER— THEY ARE, DARLING LITTLE
SIX-HUNDRED DOLLAR
EXEMPTIONS."
"DIDN'T MAKE A
CENT
LAST
YEAR
Ja
sister hist
BY HARRY WEINERT
"WHAT D'YA MEAN-
WITHHOLDING TAXI WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU
BEEN HOLDING OUT?"
SOMETIMES WIVES ARE AN
AWFUL TAX ON
ONES SELF-CONTROL.
HMM-SEE
SECTION
FORTY---
WUNU
COM. 195A BY CINÉRAL FEATURES
CORP. TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
LINE MINE
HE BLOOD PRESSURE – LISTENING TO THIS WHILE A CREW OF EXPERTS ARE \G TO GET HIM IN UNDER THE WISRIC)
SOME OF OUR HORSE PLAYER FALS
PUT A TERRIBLE TAX ON OUR
SYMPY
WELL, THATS FINISHED --- SAVED FIVE BUCKS/
LETS FACE M- THE INSTRUCTIONS
REALLY TAX OUR BRAIN CELLS,
"GOODY, "THAT, WILL JUST ABOUT PAY FOR THE MIDNIGHT OIL YOU'VE BEEN
BURNING
their
The
name
This agreeable conspiracy might have succeeded, but at a erfilcat moment Pepi goes into hiding: Giorgio decides that he cannot give the boy up to the Dollar Area; and Maria says, "Do you think I could love a man who had so little love in him that he could let strangers take away his little boy?"
So everything is all right.
Another monument to Amerlean misunracter
of the tough Italian
has been carved out of solid ice-crrain.
con wipe away, those last gentle tears. You do not nced to? You think this is bogus, phoney, schmalz? Thek you have no heart and belong to a small, persecuted minority. You belong there with me." Old favourites
incu
IN Ludwig Bemelmans' latest polection of stories, thu has been slightly rearranged but almost all the dishes were on the list yester day. Of the 24 stories in
HOTEL BEMELMANS" (Haarish Hamilton, 168.) two aro new; some are re-bashed; half of delicious drawings oro fresh. Old Bemelmans' hands wil go back, without complaints, to their favourites.
Swirly tracing the master's the entering ladder Pro the Tyrolceo hotel whent
tho
from
he first saw the light; they zond, the apotheosis in the Coco- finger Palace Hotel, New York, where he mingled almost as an qqual with princes of the pro-
Monsieur fosslors like
Me Sigzng and Mr to
In the proper place fost "No Trouble At
which birthday
describes (hastaballos AUST
Kolly
party, of Mrs Washington when the immense birthday cake capsized into the Grand Canal (real water) and Gabriel, the Napokoonia maltre nodded quletky to him chier of Mait, Malherbes, who lirted, ono finger and
But you know, or you have. foreseen, the elinastorey 2. Hognelmans writme (nabout babal
| life werth the charitas of
who, has forgiván, the vul
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