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STRIKE CHEST

DO YOU THINK WE'VE ENOUGH TO BREAK THE SANK'?"

brant Cryptykały arrangemene vites, who Sindhane Crandan

a child who could not swim splash of colour. And, Heaven would into the Thames. Happily he knows, there's little enough of

WAS rescued--but not by the that these days. Teddy Boys,

no

On the occasions when they Controversy

Sir

Wincton

Au

their members And this may best take the It was just a paragraph tucked away in featherbed

against rising unemployment, form of a demonstrable Inten- that any belt-lightening the corner of a report by the Government Shortened working hours and lon Actuary. And since the same report in-estrictive practices would do would be nn'lanal in its scope,

and theso would affecting all classes.

It is in the Interests of the cluded plans to increase the nation's doubtless be backed by the ir

resistible unity which the

fear

government to do something pension rates the paragraph went largely of unemployment breeds among like this. For a significant rise teriously burned and had to be gets a vicencious thrill from Mrs

trade unioniais.

In unemployment, coincident operated upon.

McGrail's good fortune. unnoticed.

But they must know that with a general election, might

Another time, a gang, to im In a harsh world it brings a they would thereby create Beast them from power. And But already it in exercising were 275,000 unemployed in foci's paradise that would in- this is to say nothing of the press their girl friends, threw touch of the Arabian Nights, a

concern is the Britning,000 more than the men whose

evitably be followed by

consequent an dire effects the Nor can this economie health of the country, month earlier.

economie debacle.

economic deterioration The Government Actuary said entirely be explained away as

The

alternative is harder have on those emergent and de- that he had "consulied the no

territories whose pro- more

work and higher production pendant Treasury and other depart phenomenon. For it represents coupled with near wage sperity is linked with Britain's.

There that 1.3 per cent of the working freeze, thus improving Britain's

Is time-but 1101 to ments" before assuming

are brought 10 book, the the

punishments present level of about 141⁄2 population, compared with 12 position

international waste. As yet the cloud is

they receive per cent would rise to 4

bigger than a man's hand.

and usually anes

perlods of THE

placo cent in 1961-62.

Now, the forecast of rising Yet, to Adopt this, recond

probation simply leave them Churchill holds in the heart of mean conceding The Brutes

cald, Inflated

He is wages rob the Britain is unique, of uncomplement may be no more

than an instance of necessary the rightness of the present

Bnes of their sting, and proba- Olympian. Conservative government's MONG the more cbnoxious tion earties no social stigma for In other words the present Actuarial hypothesising.

A products of contemporary them.

This accounts for the con- But expects that un-

I suspect the nation's policy of light economy. government

troversy which has been touch- What is needed, therefore, is Britain is the Teddy Boy. employment in Britain will be mighty trade unions will not

He

The obvious remedy, in viewed off in Britain by a sartorial

book And they must lay an cet of statesmansa'y from

began as tripled within the next four to treat it so.

their was of

patent physical called "The Business of War". their plans accordingly. five years.

the government; a gesture to phenomenon. save the faces of the trade Remething pathetically touching cowardliness, is no longer law- by Major-General The latest available Agures Strong as they are, it

Kennedy. union leaders.

seeming reaching ful about show that in mid-October there met be beyond their powers

Enck to capture, if only the trimmings colourful Edwardian era.

Since then the expression has "Teddy Boy"

ceased 10 AS Britain's legisintors gnaw- Kennedy was at Churchill's mean the wearer of pseudo- ext Over the nation's elbow throughout the War. Edwardian clothes. A large- economic problems, one citizen Noturally, he mixed Intimley allee of the younger generation had her economic troubles with Britain's service chiefs, still affect-to a greater or solved for her-handsomely. lesser degree-this outlandish garb, and contrive to remain de- A 34-year-old widow, Mrs In his book, Kennedy has cent citizens.

McGrall won more than £200,- drawn en these experiences to Teddy

Boy" now tends to 000 for a twopenny Investment show that though, to the nation refer to a particularly vicious in the football pools.

as a whole, Churchill was the unquestionable genius of vic-{ type of young hooligan, Always

The "level" was the level unemployment.

would

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And there

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Sir John

As Director of Military Operations, then Assistant Chief

of Imperial Coneral Staff (Operations and Intelligence),

too.

in gangs, they range about, As, head-awhirl, Mrs McGrail tory from the moment he took terroriding neighbours, and in came to London to receive the the lead, is vlow was not evitably picking on the weak cheque that would translate her shared by all the military and the delenseless,

from a struggling mail-order leaders who served with thera

worries

I heard it sold that it was refined cruelly to endow n simple housewife moral, social. ethical

Indeed, according to Ken- nedy, at one time, Churchill's critics among the military "in cerely believed... that it would be Impossible to win the war so

'controlled

lon

strategy?”

our

Gang violence, though hap- clerk with mortgage pily unusual, is nothing new to Into a woman of very independ- Britain. Glasgow, Birmingham ent means, the emptious were the and Brighton have had gang already mumbling about troubles. But there it was at morality of such a metamor- least understandable. It was phosis. the evil side-product of TRC- keteering, misguided religious feeling, or enforced idleness

Kennedy's with the

book is not during the "thirties,

and carping. But, inevitably, it laa What is significant about the Teddy Boy gangs is that theirs beyond her dreams.

financial problems of wealth soldier's look at a genius whose unorthodoxy and vchemenica is violence for the sake of

often rattled his military ade violence. Cowardly, sadistic, Apart from the fact that Mræ visėra. pointless.

McGrail is not lacking sound A typical incident happened advice (the financial editors of It remains, nevertheless, T In London DA Guy Fawkes several major newspapers have invaluable sidelight on one of night when two Teddy Boys drown up rock-sato investment the greatest war lenders of all » held down a child while they schedules for her). the time, and an such it will ALTWA thrust a lighted firework Inside Jeremiaha bad missed the point, vive the tremendous his shirt The child was which is that the entire nation veray it has started.

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A TRAIN WAS WRECKED...THEN-THE STARTING POINT FOR A NEW LIFE

Another doctor

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IN the doctor's dingy waiting-room in Doncaster I was looking for the answer to a mystery. Outside, the sun

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"How have your

patients

Dr Johnston handed me my cup. He went on: "I was badly reacted to your writing a best smashed up, When I recovered seller?"

burned man: "But you advised me to get one, Doctor. To clear up my boils:"

In his top flat la Doncaster Dr Johnston gave a splendid cackle of a:laugh. He told me: Yesterday one of my patients was just coming along to get mo to prescribe a sun-ray lamp when she read that extract from my book. She seemed really quilé guilty about asking for one after that."

Dr Johnston is a Southerner by upbringing. Truscott, his hero, ts Southerner too. Truscott, however, cloes not practise in Doncaster, but in В place called Broadchester.

Once a year

Truscott's view of the would- be smart sat in a Broadchester cocktail bar: "Since it wdg Saturday, they were dressed, an sportsmen. Everywhere CTAUDU or bulging necka emerge from tweed jackets, the floor: 100# thick sợith poodicn and dachshunds, the air actid with pipe smoke"

Dr Johnston told me: editor of the local paper didn't like the book. He thought I was sneering at Doncaster. People seem to think it must be an autobiography."

A father led his pale, small boy into the surgery. Then the bell stuttered again. Now it was my turn. But I had not come for medical advice. I had come to the surgery of Dr Hamilton Johnston, the author of THE DOCTOR'S SIGNATURE (Gollancz, 138. ed.). It is his first novel; yet in a few days it has sold And more than any other first novel has sold in recent months. $18.00 rightly so.

The Doctor's Signature not 18.00

caters for those who

What is the secret link between 25.00 only

want a surgery novel at any 8.50 price.

It is brilliantly witly

these men and the world of books? 1 felt as if I was someant quite "Very well. But I think some In the book Truscolt on raro 35.00 too. It bears the stanip of an

different. I simply started life of them are disappointed not to occasions gals back to London who will keep in the student too, 7.50 author

Conan Doyle,

With the compensation and He said: "Ive always wanted again.

own cases the to visit his daughter by his ürst 7.50 best-seller league whether Maugham, A. J. Cronin each to.

n book. And lately, when I have marriage, which, ended You see I didn't start out money I decided to train os heroes are doctors or dusinten. of them laid down the stetho as a doctor, I tried various jous, doctor."

written out prescription, divorce. several of them have joked 'I 5.00 And it sent me to Doncaster scope before taking up the pen. Then, just when I had thrown

suppose It's only aspirin. up a job in with this question: What 18 10,00

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stockbroker's You would not have guessed In Doncaster, as De Hamilton see at the age of 25, 1 came any of this from The Doctor's Johnston tidiza nway

Bignature, his to the turning point."

There is a certain Instruments in a glass cabinet,

sadness about Dr Truscott, Its shobby, genial, erring hero. But thero is not a hint of tragedy. I said:-

I asked: "How does a busy ductor ever manage to start writing in the first place?"

A week

Dr Johnston poured water On my shelf this autumn I

Dr Johnston took me to the from an electric kettle for some "And, do you think medicino 1.50 And DOCTOR IN LOVE small top flat where he lives. tea. Then he told me about the has helped your ambition to be "I work at a book turning point.

a. toriter?" .30 (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) Alled He said: 30 with the ever-bubbling fun of here two or three hours every day between afternoon and

their

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Disappointed

Dr Johnston told-me: - . "Twa been married three times altogether, by second marringe ended In divorce. But I get down to London, about once i a

to visit my sons!”,

year

Richard Gordon. At the other cyenlag surgery times; That's way with my wife to a new job you to study people. It brings miserable Truscott being called starts it he has to Before

.30 end find a country. doctor's

serious and detailed collection of just about the only free time I tales from the health files get, I've got to be at the hos

pilal two evenings a week," COUNTRY

by PRACTICE Hubert Bagster (Deutsch, 15.).

But it is not merely a matter His of doctors writing about does grey. toring. Keats was a poot. But him: he started. out, as a pedical 'think

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Dr Johnston is a small man. hair is close-cropped and “His ago. is 42,” I asked "When

dia about wrillpg?”.

"It was in 1940. I was on my "Definitely. The job helps when I got in a frain smash at you right up against them." Brentwood,

In Doncaster Dr Johnston la brought up against pellents from a big working class practice the people from the rolling mills and engineering, shops. I

Rid

*I was injured."My wife was killed."

I'sakodi "How long had you you drst been married?”

"That's because I mention in

Outside, dusk thickened over the book how Truscott pre- Doncaster I accepted scribes aspirin, for a headache Johnston's offer of a f

As I fitted mysolt into, tho but gives the drug its fancy name when he writes it down pussçugera seat, I thought "of on the form."..

Truscott's aged car in The The book opens with, the Doctora" Signature, ·

perform out in the middle of a winter's ritual with string and Wirm night to treat a patient, who under the bonnet,za, mutt bai burned his eyelids with # We had a car just like that?”. au-ray lamp.

sald bost-selling author. Hamatis Sky Truscott: "What I can't, ton Johnston,- Then be touched understand is what the hell you a button. And in a socdade wore doing with a sun-ray, lamp, were Souping through DoZCAKESE in the first place." BaTË the with all six cylinders foaring.