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My case against

teetotalers

by NANCY SPAIN

test TP comes a curious little volume by that old teetotál novelist Upton

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because he told the true story of the Chicago meat yards in a book called "The Jungle."

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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ACROSS

1 Picture holder (3).

4 Sort of work for a ċilaber? (0),

0 Elart to attack (8).

10 Budy of sheriff's rack (3),

12 Mediterranean area (0),

14 Call together (7).

17 Withered (4).

10 Locking in faste (7).

20 Colour of a runner? 171

interno (4).

21 Think of a number| 17).

27 Put it in the middle (8).

Inscribed (8).

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Commission for a boy (0).

si Clothes-conscious 10).

32 Consumed (5).

FRIDAY'S

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1 Money seen in France, of course

15).

Fire-raising (5).

He's not at home (5).

5 ", mein'? (4).

Huw soldiers march? (8).

Looked sly (0).

Merciful (7)

11 Not able to penalty (2, 4).

1.7 Have a gol (7).

15 Start of many a fairy-tale (4).

10 Scurvy knave? (0)

18 Equip a port (4).

Demonstrated how treido (d),

21 Wall reOOHN (0),

Fang (((8) 27204MERIA

Cook is a way (8).

Like heart of burden? (5), Tidings from sit quarters (4).

CROSSWORD-Aeros: 3 Orphaned, 0_Exit, § Mo-lasser.

11 Selmitar, 13 A-yes, 15 Intrepid, 16 Sinecure. 130 Feri, 21 Minority, 25 Sheraton 26. Four poster). 27 Darkness. Down; 1 (Black) (Bess), 2 Mimi, Riot, 5 Hoar, D Nasty, 7 Discs, 9 Miles. 10 Latin, 12 Coe, 14 Egret, 10 Pipit, 17 Devon, 19 Posed, 20 Shear, 21 Malu, 22 No-

(), 23 Iron. 24 Yarr

Short Biographies

WE WERE CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS--THEN I SPENT SEVERAL YEARS AS ADVISOR I SPOTTED HIM IN THE SIXTH GRADE ! “ AT LARGE FOR THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY-

HOWEVER, THAT WAS BEFORE I PRODUCED

SEVERAL TV SPECTACULARS,

AT PRESENT

I'M WORKING

ON..."

IT WAS IN THE CARDS –

STACKED DECK DEPARTMENT.

JUST WHO DO YOU

TRINK YOB ARE?

"WHO ME?

I'M JUST A TAXPAYER ! "

ONE WAY

"I STARTED OUT

TO BE A

POLITICIAN,

BUT THERE WERE

NOT ENOUGH..

SMART

| VOTERS

AROUND TO

ELECT ME:

MODESTY. WILL GET YOU WOWHERE.

SHORT ON BIOGRAPHY

·LONG ON FICTION.

COPA. 1957 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP. TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

THE BIG FISHERMAN – HE STARTED FISHING EM. OUT OF THE GOLDFISA BOWL AT THE AGE OF ONE --- HAS BEBA AT IT EVER SINCE.

WONE

#1-17

ways read the detective stories in the ship's library-and no even opened "War and Peace" and "Moby Dick.".

brilliant

ECW

THE

BOOK

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Nowadays, he says, they are "carugod because, alillough they acquire a great deal of knowledge at their technical schools; they do not acquire' the` "humanities, which are tho, foundations of style." "I assure you," he concludos, "I. Resi om- barrassed when I meet these angry young men;"

So on his beautiful voyage, lah (which look to him like In between observing the flying tiny, tla airplanes) and his fellow passengers (who are very spotty: when stripped for But ever since I read a swimming) he records his

travel

findings in the shape of a book, JAVA (Con- series of conversations with. Upton Sinclair has already JOURNEY TO written one novel (John table, 21s), by Harold Nicolson, Mr Culpeper,

wondering what Burleycorn") about demon I have been

sort of books you would take quite young, very rich, ap- Mr Culpeper collects Jade, is drink. Now he has written with you.

parently melancholy, another Awful Warning. It

Because Harold Nicolson served a prison sentence, and is in called THE CUP OF

the latest fashin- therefore terrified that, sonicone didn't take

bas

FURY (Arco, 128, 6d.), and able novel. Oh dear, no. He will find out... the incket shows Upton cok Burton's "Anatomy of This, of course, explains, Mr

and Sinclair gaily answering a Melancholy"

Rousseau's Culpeper's melancholy which "Confessions," and all the work telephone.

of the young romantics of the theory that no one is melancholy cheatingly CROWDS Nicolson's

nineteenth, and eighteenth,

"without cause.” twentieth centuries,

Below him is the caption: "I have made a list of the drinking 'people I have known. Two score went to their doom, 11 as suicides. This is their story."

Then there is a list of great names: Dylan Thomas, Theodore Drelser, Juck London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Barrymore, Edna St Vincent Mulay. All of them (elains Upton Sinclair) would be alive today and twice as talented it only they had not hit the bottle.

Now, 1 and Mr Upton Sinclair a very, very tiresome writer, I found it difficult to read this book. I have never even be en able to enjoy The Jungle." Buc the pleasure have had from Dylan Thomas, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, F. Scott Filzgerald, John Barrymore, and Edna St. Vincent Millay's works 's still undiminished.

UPTON SINCLAIR

So I can only conclude that How I wish he would

Upton Sinclair would be slightly less of a bora if he occasionally helped himself to Scoich and coda.

double down a double Scotch!

On melancholy

FLEN 12000 along et voyage. I always taką "Moby Dick"·" and - "War and Peace" with me. I know, you see, that a long sea voyage is the Ume to catch up on" required classical reading.

He wanted to find out why,

All the while I was reading. (and loving) this book I longed, n one does sambilmesin' good conversation, to interrupt. For I know lots of melancholics who take a deep and insting Fluasure in their sulke. And it would be a pity to epoir 'their enjoyment by finding a reason for them.

I

Sound story

HAVE also appreciated a novel by 1.A.R. (the initiais stand for Ida Alexa Rosa). Wylie, THE UNDEFEATED. ·(Cassell," · 16), which tells how a horrid German officer comes · „back after the war to a mountain village in Provence.

In the war he found out who all the trailors were,、 who betrayed whom and for how

much So it is his intention,

after having blackmailed every- to leave with his loot,

one,

which is hidden, somewhere in

a cave.

He is folled by Pascal, the after the Napoleonic Wars, the illegitimato son of the Joe il young men Indulged themselves Catholle priest, Pascal is blind, in "causeless melancholy," just and poor and (by worldly na now they indulge themselves standards); hardly as powerful.w in moro or Icss "Causeless figute. Nevertheless, his... In- anger."

tegrity is such that he defeats

This, Nicolson reckons, in due the German all ends up. to the fact that after Waterloo Misa Wyllo wellos' with 'bigh the young European Intellec- romantic fervour, but she hus tuals had been deprived of uny much a good, sound story to tell No doubt that is why at the "confidence in the value of about the battle between good end of the voyage I have al- human effort."

and, evil that I found it very easy to forgive a little mola- dramatic nonsense bere and there.

By Harry Weinert

STARTED LIFE AS A BAREFOOT

BOY--- ~

WHO DIDN'T Z EXCEPT

THE GIRLS- AND THEY DON'T BLAT ABOUT IT.

WHEN I WAS-, YOUR AGE

NOT-SO-SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

“LOOK AT THE MEASLY WRITE-UP

THEY GAVE ME IN-- THE KNOW-YOUR- FELLOW-WORKERS

COLUMA:gra SIX LINES!

The willies

Now a catapicte, contrast

a tremendous true, "Human"- storÝ, THE JUNGLE WAB OUR HOME (Allen and Unwin, 188), by Joan Gerstad, all about a young married couplé coping with

tropich

Hto in New

Guinea,

Frankly, it gave me the willies. One of their house' -- buys turns out to be a Ieper, the one who replaces him "la 'al cannibal. "Their dist, daughter Is born dead, their second child only survives because of the power of prayer.

Eventually the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour (the first time I have ever thought of that day of Infamy as a blessing in diam gulse), and Mr and Mrs Gerstad go home to live in nice, qufel, clean, cool Northern Norway.· ́*

Still, this is a good book. And there is a great deal to be said for a párrative which makes life on a tropical island sound to hideously uncomfortablo' that I thank God for dear old fu ridden, foggy London.

Highly spiced

NOW another well-written

MILANE

novel; THE WOMAN OF MY LIFE (Hamiah Hamilton, 12s,,Bd.),^; by Ladwig Bernel- It tells how a rathëk. sweet French nobleman, ajdúc, searches everywhere for a perfect love. Sy kyke

He has many awful advisers who, try,,,to, help him, Но stumbles from ore elaborately manufactured love, trap after another, and finally falls madly for an American gir) with beautiful log

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She Is.co.hopest that abe,

And” while he injin, qgol" the governor, Inspires". Klim. tö" writo, the true and wisthillatory, of his various amorolisi encounters. Highly uplond Parisian", stun they all are too can vie

THATS ENOUGH,

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