1957-11-06 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1957.

LUCKY JIM GE

Dixon sets to work on

the burned blankets

-HOLES, HE REASONS AS HE WIELDS A RAZOR BLADE, CAN BE BLAMED ON MOTHS

"There's

eggs, and kidneys," said.

OMEWHERE in the house someone was board.

singing. Jim Dixon lay prostrate on his bed, and consigned the singer to a horrible and super-heated hell.

Without a trace of pride, he realised he had the most gigantic hangover of his career. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him bent like a pulse. His mouth contained the corpse of some small creature of the night. His

bones ached.

ends throbbed.

Hia nerve.

To open his eyes was the most ex-

quisite ugony,

was his

PHILIP OAKES continues film the story of the adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amik

n

Dixon Binched at iden. "I'm not -hungry," he said.

bacon, For the time being, the

she emergency was over.

"What number

do you want?

The Unbarsity ?

I'm afraid you've

mode a mistake

this is the

United Dairies."

but with mounting urgency, the Dixon knew that he must very leave the Welch household before his crimes were dis.

"You must feel awful," covered. said Christine.

away,"

:

Mrs Welch

Inspiration.

"You've

let's have some bine.

here..

And

NEWS

FROM BRITAIN

Liberal Lesson

by Peter Burgoyne

UTTING it mildly, Bri- The export trade in pet dogs

worth about £1,000,000 newspapermen year.

Putin's

were surprised. At a Wa Cuts are the favourila pets of shington" reception Prince the "working class"; the well- Philip hnd told American to-do favour dogs. roportera that in Britain

newspapermen could talk to him a casily, as they were.

doing the U.S.A. "if they feel like it."

This was revolutionary picture

Wall Writing

The by-election at Ipswich

confirmed A prediction mado

a completely some weeks ago That Britain's of Liberals might not be able to palace-press relations. And win an election for themselves,

but that they could it was good to know that lose it for the Tories.

When

certainly

Ipswich went to the polis the Socialists held the Bent (with a converted Liberal), down came the Tory share of the Liberals the vote, and share went pouring.

candidato Bewildered Tory John Cobbold, when he learned the result, said, "The Liberal intervention affected me more than I thought it would"

the votes won or

by the Liberal candidate. two thirda came from the Tories, one third

This column does not claim

solence. The signs were hero

by the

of growing

the Queen's husband felt this way about reporters. Its insistent ringing from shrubs in wooden boxes,

A Bet in dropping what was a When Atkinson tele the Porter's Lodge could the quadrangle was pink as

nursery, with pots

London Journ of hydran-bombshell to Dixon nodded dumbly. phoned, he saw his

way not be

allsts, Prince Pallip had op- ignored he KD3.

very "Mother!" he bellow- acknowledged From one of the bedrooms out.

the grim "That's how they grow," ex-prently overlooked one

factor, British, news came the sound of a vacuum ed into the mouthpiece, truth, that for James Dixon plained the

contractor. "Just vital

papermen have never been cleaner.

"You're really here. And Esquire, troubles bred like pink and blue"

able to get near enough the rabbits. Dixon leapt to his feet. Dad!"

Royal Family to gauge their approachability.. "The maid?" he gasped. Suspiciously, a battery of "This

Christine sipped her Welch eyes watched him, speaking," said the voice on PERTRAND felt the surge of For between The Royal Fami- coffee. "What's wrong with "Right

got ly and the fourth estate has roared the line, "and that, I be her?" Item by item, he took sulted Christine Callaghan.

Dixon, with a cheerfulness leve, is Mr Dixon. I have blue," ho demanded. "Well then, stood the so-far unbrotchable from the Socieilles.

Great barrier of the palace press "Nothing," babbled Dixon, he hardly felt. "Pl be just been looking at my pools of blue, Исте - and office. hended by 50-years-old for itself any political pre- stock of his surroundings The electric light was still Briefly, he considered the "t's just that ... well, I with you in half an hour." sheets and blankets."

Commander Richard Colville, had a fire in my room last "My parents," he told

The contractor shook his head.C.V.O.. D.S.C., Royal Navy for all to see. Dixon held the receiver away "Can't do that, sir. The blue's | (retired).

They are:-- burning. On the bedside advantages of suicide.

night."

Mrs Welch. They'vo ar from his car as if it had stung booked for the Young Conserva-

(1) Thot a lager glass One idea

the number table stood

"Fire?" said Christine

tives at three o'clock. Can't Colville comes of naval diffecled Torics containing what looked like

blankly,

risk pink with that crowd," family and is a lying monu- because of the apparent abon- He cherry brandy.

Bertrand jammed his thumbs ment to the Royal Navy's tradi- doning of traditional Tory prin- hin

shirt, wearing

In the armholes of his waistcoat, lonal reputation as the "ellent, elples

Conservativo pyjama jacket, and

"My geod mon." brayed. "By service." As a leading London Party.

newspaper observed this week, that time the ceremony will be

(2) That the people who go shoes.

over, and the Young Cosserva "He sees his own job in terms to the polls are the politically- tives can reassure themselves of telling the newspapers as interested who jealously cherish

little as he possibly can." with any Bymbol they choose."

their right to vote, and who will Briefly the contractor irled to

vota, one way or the other. I know of one London assess how Important Bertrand

asked tha palace Was. Then he gave

His porter who up.

Queen what the order book filpped open.

"Just tell us what you want,”

had worn to an investiture and private he said.

Al 2.25, the Installation cere mony began. And five minutes The job of royal press krere later,

the contractor's lorry

tary is a tricky one. Ideally, called for the hydrangeas,

he should be able to judge and From the common-room win-recommend to the Royal Family dow, Dixon witnessed the start the maximum accessibility con- of a tragedy, looted to the spot,sistent with regal dignity. And he saw brawny men storm across he should have the confidence the quadrangle, and then stura of botis palace and press.

of biva

For a long time newspaper- back, their arms full hydrangeas.

men in London have maintain-

Britain got a jolling remin- Dixon,sprang into action. With ed that this job should be held der that there is more to social his gown flapping behind him,by a respected senior journailst progress than new houses, big-

ke the wings of a dementod

who knows that in "covering" ger schools and glowing public the Royal Family, newspapora health statistics. bat, he tore down the staircase

ore Millag a very leglimato public demand.

fed to another

"Cigarette," explained his MOVING with some cau-

Dixon. "There's a hole in found tion, Dixon

two blan- the sheet, and razor blade, and again in-

kels."

her With a supreme effort, spected the blankets. Holes,

Christine put down could Dixon sat up. What he saw he reasoned,

"How awful moths, Big cup quietly. wrenched a cry of agony blamed

What will Mrs The moths, perhaps; but with- from his dry lips. cigarette of the night out any trace of burning, before had done its work who was to know?

well. The blankets

sheets that covered

.on

be

THE STORY SO FAR: Jim Dixon in de tilal as a junior history lecturer at a'ind-brick, university. But however much he telon tứ imprese Profemor Welch, the head of bla department, something goes wrong. The professor walks in on an unerthodox history tutorial: Jim Insults the daughter of the new Chancellor; then drunkenly breaka late the wrong bedroom. He gets his face slapped, stugges off 10. his own room, and falls urinap in his cigarette bugins to buin a hole in Mr. Walch's mattress. - 2.

Thul

for you. Welch say?"

Dixon rolled hig eyes rived quite unexpectedly, him. His eyes dilated in fear and to frenzy. Desperately he screwed in silent I'm afraid I shall have

up his mouth, and spoke with a and With a concentration that ceiling - wards

go."

thick accent. "I'm afraid you've him made his head throb even agony..

His "Perhaps I could help,"

Madame bag was already made a mistake. looked as though they had more madly, he began to

said "We have no Mr Dixon two minutes here. What number did packed. In away the charred said Christine. boon scattered with a stick trim

you! The University? holes of small incendiary bombs. edges. The

Eagerly Dixon seized the time he was scuditing down want? grew

If the drive and into the main explains it. This is the United Incredulously, Dixon fin- bigger, and, for a second, chance. "Would you?

He felt like an es- Dairies." gered the churred holes Dixon gave way to doubt. you could just look at it. road."

Mrs It's sort of... a woman's caped murderer.

Gently he replaced the tele- Some of the fabric came Then he thought of

The The Welch.

rizor blade job"

By 10 o'clock the next phone, and bolted out into the away in his fingers.

Christine, thought Dixon, morning, Dixon knew that quadrangle, burns were deep, distinct, flashed busily; the pile of

Margaret Feel not got away Ing .for him. Hugging a and plentiful. Dixon closed charred pieces mounted on was a wonderful girl. She he had

had remade the bed, with with it; As OC flowers hideous wooden shield, ahe his eyes, and moaned softly, the floor.

The previous 12 hours Christine Callaghan was the ravaged bedclothes, at and buntings for the In. looked like a probationary mem- had produced nothing but drinking her second cup of the bottom. And even when stallation Day decorations, ber of the Valkyries. "Can you tell me where to put this. seen leaving he had more than enough James?" she demanded. disasters. Ile hud anta- coffee when Dixon reached she had been

But Sho his bedroom by Margaret troubles for one man.

"I certainly

shopped gonised Professor Welch, the dining offended Mrs Welch, pro- smiled and indicated a line Peel, she had not turned a the moment that he heard Dixon.

the voice on the telephone voked Bertrand, and in- of silver dishes on the side hair.

room.

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Margaret gasped in outrage,

con-

trite. "I'm sorry," he said "I don't know

where I am this morning. Decorations, the Jec- ture the lot."

Margaret.

"I thought," sald "that you might apology to make."

have

and out into the shrubbery.

press

ollice

was inld: Mai is a multer."

"Leave the hydrangens alone.” he bawled ineffectually.

A Buckingham Palaco equiva Wheeling round in search of lent of the White House press help, he collided with a work-secretary is what is needed. man walking blindly behind a blossoms: largo clump of blue The pot crashed to the ground. and earth und. broken pottery

lered the quadrangle.

the

cun-

Wildly, Dixon tried to remove the debris. But he only suc- ceeded in adding to DIL

fusion, From all parts of the quadrangle core the detonation of bursting hydrangea pots,

contrac- Dixon grabbed the tor's elbow. "What's going on?"

Dixon frowned, "Who. to?" Margaret glared st him, furiously. To me," she said.

"How do you think I feel? How would any girl feel after. being compromised?"

"Compromised?" murmured Dixon. "Who's been com- promised?"

M

ho howled.

Pet Profit

(3) Tant the Liberal Party is the natural alternative for disaffected Tories.

With these facts you don't have to be any Nostradamus to guess what the eventuai out- come will be unless the Co- servative Party makes a strong stand on its traditional" prin- cipity.

- New Blues

It come with the revelation or yet another l to bedevil Twontieth Century man

Housing Estate Neurosla".

The name was culled, by Dr Michaci Young. Director of the Institute of Community Studies, and it appears that the symptoms are loneliness, worry, and a sense of fatness as it One of the most prodigious alt the Azz had gone out of chroniclers of the contemporary life.

Economic Planning.

automation

the

scene in Britain is an indepen- Dr Young reached hiss cope following the dent body called Political and clusions after

of prozess

familica from Its Council of Management London's

Bethnal slummy includes many famous names, Green district to brand new and the subjects it has tackled housing estates,

ill admirable broadsheets

He found that when "Got to get them away," saldin

from range the contractor. "I told the other

to planners cleared a glum ara chap the one with the beard philately,

they destroyed at the same Its infest spot of delving into time a way of life which was Murderously, Dixon recognised the description of Bertrand. the British way of life is called numerous, rich, and immensely

"Economics of Domestic Pets." satisfying." "But what did you listen to him for he pleaded.

even started fights the Briton's extraordinary Young in Retinal Green was "Don't you In cold facts and figures it high-

What most Impressed see we haven't our procession yet!"

love of dumb animals. Compassionately, the contrac- Some of the facts: tor nodded across the quad- Britons keep in their homes, rangle, to where the Principal,dote on and feed 3,500,000 dogs,

cats Professor Welch, and Sir Hector 0,000,000

and 6,000,000 Gore-Urquhart stood hemmed in cage-birds.

Two out of every three. Bri-

animal pet.

Dr

the tremendous cate lavished on old people by their children and other relatives,

MARGARET. stepped back a pace as though Dixon had been transformed into a toad. "I think you're horrible.'.. vile," she hissed.

Hysterically, she began to sob, "Keep away from me... you by a litter of broken pottery atish homes has some sort of which, back in: the old street,

wilting hydrangeas,

have now, sont"

fiend," she shrieked.

Dixon looked around him in "Not started?" he said. "You sudden panic. There was Bert- rand, Just wilbin earshot, Dixon tried to meet his contemptuous glance with a smile, but It was a dismal failure.

Artistically, thought Bertrand, the decorations lacked imagina- tion. There were archways made of bunting, There were small

TOMORROW

Jim gets a black eye

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Owners spend more than £50,000,000. a year feeding

them,

All this goes by the board in the hygienic isolation of sübur- ban housing estates. Troubles

could be shared with the neigh- ours, have to be bare alone,

The result, sald Dr Young, is that "there are few general The Government collects over practitioners on any housing £1,000,000 a *year in dog estate in Wils country who do licences.

not realise that migration of this particular kind gives rise welfare to great problems of mental

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