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BY. THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

la

to aim a 40,000 ton

Ast afraid that the story being overhauled the suge about the mice who hawed planning their way

through the organ rocket at Sirius. The distance pipes in a Norfolk church will na the crew would fly if it had actue than human who are no more encouraged people troubled by mice to buy or bulid beings is, let us say, G1,000,000 organe with trapa attached to miles. Strablanus hopes to In- tercept Sirius as it CTORRES The tho plyes.

well-known meridian when its cundle-power is at its highest. The rocket ja so constructed that if it ricochets of Sirfus at a certain angle it will bong into Aldebaran, known to astrong- mers on Alpha Tauri. Win a Foghorn!

It would be cheaper, and no sililer, to leave about the place dunamy organ pipes made of cheese. White the Icast was on, the householder would spring out of hiding and сад- turo the hearty little eaters. It known that is not generally

mice always eat easterly affection.

sailors

phrase

north- tho

In

д

Hence enow-grow-

Ent. And mice-versa.

Can we land on Sirius?

DR

NSWER

to

yesterday's

A problem: The Turkish sailor beard by culting off the part that was caught in the biscuit of Utrecht Talk o' the Town

could have disentangled

STRABISMUS (Whom God Preserve)

has more than one amazing. iron in the fire.

tių.

While U

Boomerang Stratocruiser

"

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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the

Here is a problem by F. Ben- White to play nelt (Austraila). and mate in two moves

London K.pean Servi

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*1

the

ME, BAW

Burmese business man, is disappoint- ed with his visit to this country. Every time he gives file name over the telephone he tones an urder, and is rudely told to get of the line. He is thinking changing his name, by Bunnesc deed-poll, to MI Tin Hat. Offer refused

E three Persians have re- crived a letter which points out tant modern audiences IC- quite something

10 more up date than see-saw. "Perhaps." says the letter, "we could work a new angie, with a Bloodlit gee- saw and girls hanging on each end, and a catchy see-saw number The Perzinns' reply is mostly printable, even in Per- slan. The maestros end by say-

to

g that see-saw is us serious a matter to them as is cricket to the English. "flow, sir, wood you like to see a M.C.C. Lawds match with gurls hangin on to The Aulsmen and darnen round the bolers and humpiers | aingin meusickle kommedy?"

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, ́ ́NOVEMBER 20, 1958.

LO

REPORTING ON THE ODD

SORLAY

G

AND THE NOTED IN LONDON NOW

Rare character breezes into town; name of

Two-Gun Cohen from Peking

GENERAL COHEN gave me a cigar. Then he said: "What I'm going

to tell you may make you think I'm a Communist. But I'm not. No, sir." He gave me a light for the cigar, a King Edward imported from America. We settled down to talk in the non-Communist atmosphere of the May Fair Hotel lounge.

It is always difficult at first to talk to a legend. But General Cohen at around 14 st., with the build of a weighing machine, is a pretty substantial legend. You have to accept him,

You even begin to accept the story of his life, which he shrug: aside as though it were as uni- explosive as an unraided bank manager's,

General

Morris Abraham

Antonio I apologized to Vivien Leigh,

smiled 1 modest never been poisoned by anything whom I hadn't récognised Spanish smile and said there more lethal than the creme de behind the vell as she danced Whe nothing to talk about meath frappe she was sucking

peth except that he would be seca through a tiny straw, gentleman, He wna Antonio, in a film soon in London.

with

מוב

even

more

them for a glass of champagnć, the dance floor. They danced

(Her

"They laughed their heads "I don't mind at all. In fact, coff Next week all the papers I'm thrilled at the prospect, and the radio told the women I certainly don't feel Ilken to get out their pretty dromes grandmother,' their slik cheongsams and things.

They didn't have to be told Two films to make seral-

"Sure, 1 know then all On both sides, And they trust me Maybe because I'm not Chinese I'm a Cohen.

"You can say that I'm still working for China

"Two-Gun" Cohen was bota effelally. I want to promote twice,

In Stepney. the son of a poor Jewish couple from Poland In Canada, where he was taken when he was 10, he became Sergeant Major Cohen of the Guards.

more trade betweon China and Britain.

"}

RED CARPET

Was

over

about

".

the Spanish dancer. I joined He took Mieg Lolgh book to STRICTLY FOR

Mlay Leigh talked about well together. The petito and THE TOP PEOPLE! becoming a grandmother at 45, pretty grandmother. And the

Juughter, Suzanne, is, petff, hipless son of Spain. RATTLESNAKE required expecting her frat baby next

dead or alive as a mascot. Just small talk month),

That's what the ad, said in the Another glass of champagne Jemonal column of that poper and another table with American for top people. beiress "Bobo" Sigrist and Irish Immediately below in the producer Kevin McClary, her re- same column was this od.: gular cort in London,

"PEER, potress, or pro He has made alm calfed "The Boy and The Bridge." It minent personality wanted Nor did she look like one. The general went across the

stare a boy and a scapull Not to join the board of an leunge to take A phone call. With her block vell she could Babol

old-established and *X* Dern mistaken for a moving fast liku

Sald Bobo; a weighing have

"I'm afrold to panding West End travel sachine on well-oiled wheels. particularly merry young widow. talk newspapormen He east a quizzical vye ut a pig-

"I'm going to be busier than myself and my lie."

agency as prestige direc- before. When the play talled girl refugee from a Soho Cver

But she decided it would be for. No financial liability jazz club, who had wandered finishes in a couple of weeks safe to talk about her tonsils, or work required."

what I've got one

She was recently parted from

My friend the Eart Ho to make.

them in the Lundún Clinic

Kimberley has replied to the "I feel so much better since second ad. I know another peer "I'm going to Germany for опо It's a remake "Grand the operation. Should have had who was in a position to reply Hotel. I'll be appearing with done sooner. You know, the to both ada. the German star O. W. Fischer. doctors say that my tonsils had "Then I go to the South of probably been poisoning me for France for another.

And later some time."

the lm of my life

Dr two

fllma

10

about

of

four in China, where he has spent cnths ago Went to Formosu

where to 50 of his 11

years, he earned first. Then to China,

Mayfair wearing his general's rank and served they put the red carpet out for locked like a bolter suit, with Dr Sun Yat Sen, fother me (it was one of those unin- rolled back to talk about the cf the Chinese Republic,

tentional puns and we let it future. He is now in a unique position pra). I saw anything I wanted, "One or two companies want of un-Dulles brinkmanship He and I'm willing to go on record

nake 10 on friendly terms with the as saying Ching's in great shape.

But I'm not sure. Maybe I leaders of Red China, May They've never had such a good should wait. After all, I'm only

The odd things I see: Tse-tung. Chou En-lai, and with Government. And that doesn't 71. I've a lot to do yet.

I go to New York with the play She did not suggest that her their ageing foc. Chiang Kol- mean I'm

A middle-aged woman member }

of the "Whatever I do will be ussu- ("Duel of Angels"). Not bad poisonous tonsils had affected shek, of the Nationalist Party.

book Party, as I told you.

Aited with China, because I love for a grannie. The band played her marriage to Gregg Juarez, reading a

sho Suld the

in his general

"They gave a big dinner for

place

the and

people, "More Than Evor, More Than which is now being annulled, waited in the queue to see powerful volee, which sounds me. They were all there. Chou not because of any political

They eloped when she was 18. "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof." is though it were coming at you En-lai, The lot.

party. Make that clear, son." through a harsh amplifier:-

If anyone

IF your whole

future

hung

on this journey

by SYDNEY SMITH

BERLIN

runs like a ragged scar for 22 miles of rubble-filled ruins from the north to the south of Berlin-the thin line between despair and hope. When the Russians pull out of find East sector customs, police, the West flies out its refugees East Berlin, that frontier be- and plain-clothes spies waiting tween the two Berling will snap and watching-then you have shut with the clang of another an idea of the Berlin Under- Iron Curtain.

ground.

Suddenly the pollee step in

In terms of renewed despair, and say:

to Western Germany?

"Whose suitcase is The

Backlog

Four-Power

agreement

of lives lost to freedom, thai new that?" it has been left beside allows us three air corridors iron fringe will symbolise the the door. No one answers. westwards under a Four-Power flashpoint problems which will Police take the suitcase away, air security control committee. face the British, French, and At Marble Arch, among the The Russians have trained an Americans in West Berlin trying crowd that walks out to frez- East German: staff to replace to interpret the Four-Power dom, is someone who has taken them on this committer,

Treaty between three.

a mild gamble-and, lost his luggage,

Travellers

WILL the East GermaTI

I saw that happen the other let us through—to fly out day at the Potsdamerplatz.

the enormous backlog of Up above the same kind Of

German East

refuzees

West

One of the essentials of the things goes on-except that na treaty has been the right of fres one crossing carrica much waiting to go to communication between the four luggage. zunes of Berlin, with the Berlin

Metro across the Fast-Weat The East German police cector frontier at 15 pointa. there do not check even Berliners make nearly 250,000 half the straggling groups journeys a day between the two crossing

East to sectors.

from

Germany?

WILL they allow the com- munications of 10,000 French, British and American Service- men, and 3.000 diplomatie and milliary families, who refuse to Bast German authority, to continue to fly in

"recognise" West, and when they do

One hundred thousand check-they let them go. journeys are made by Borliner:

They are probably the most Among the rest are Wert- pollte polles in the world,

who work in the opposite zone.

bound refugees crossing at the rate of 3,000 to 4,000 a week- about 1,000 a wook more than this time last year.

One of the bitterest complaints of the East Germans has been of this steady loss of their labour and technical forces,

.

So warm

The saluting, the hoel-clicking.

is like a fond and warm Invila- tian to losep on pasting through

up

thoin

and out of Berlin?

WILL they call Russian-built MtGs to close the corridors by force and inslet oa the thele sovereignty"_over 110 miles between West Berila and West Germany?

The answer is simple,

let us drive in and out by the They will let us fly. They will road corridor, and continue our diplomatic trains

This is just because the military and Rumians are still there, and the just so long as we do the one East Germans are carrying out thing to which the whole of In 10 years they have their orders to obey the your this operation of Russian with- lost almost one-quarter of Power agreement, their doctors, scientists, But when the fourth Power and skilled workers to the go-Aur Wiedersehen to all

that. West-through Berlin.

The loss

of the

drawal la contrived;---

Recognise the East, Ger- man Government as the

I Ioarn officially that heir and successor to the the East Germans have already Rnisians and all 'their prepared and printed the carda

We have cold we will not do |

for a new identity ayntom for agreements on Berlin' with East Germany's 17,000,000, the West. @ne of the first things the

The country has been divided will do when East Germans they are on their own will be to into stricts, each of which will that. We will not recognise the have # different coloured tussions right to quit, and so Heritage accept the

we cannot treaty where it suits them-and Identity card..

recognise their Argone found outside his successors, deny it when it doesn't.

Fest of the deniale: the free district without a visa or moves. So ir Berlin now, under ite

Reroon merit order will be arrested and cloud of thevitable movement

withdrawal,. We are Licitig the Everyone of the 15 ́metro and móil dangeroun confusion in If you can imagine the leef- underground stations on the the work. ing of despornle

doin of Berlins frontier.

imprisoned.

Russian

tension - Beriin frontler will becorfie-för. ..... But in terms of people, we are Healy selaing you in your tube, the East Getmatlema Customs feeling had and terrible !ben train on the way from Tatter and travel checkpoint.

travel at silli – kundeada i of

han Court Bond to Marble Arch “THE NEXT LOGICAL FROM-" "Choueants who are hoping to BR YOU, Approach the frontler LEM will be: what happens to challenge the gaunt frontier of slation of Qatard Cleeve and the når senidets through" which diselim,

"I stood up and fold them i was proud of the new Ching. As

the

Ever,"

at in doubt "Let's talk about let me say that the general, I'm a great fan of his.”

a member of the Chinese though he now carries no fire». Nationalist Party, the Kuomla-

fabg.

arms except a gold pistol on his

key ring, is still first and fare- "You know they got up and moat a romantle soldier. He 19 cheered. What a lot of people an adventurer. A buccaneer. here don't realloc is that the He's a Cohen, Which is seldom Nationalis Party is still allowed the same thing as a Commle. to operate In China. The

Commies are in power, but you

enn still recruit members of the SO WHAT'S NEW?

Nationalist Party in Peking.

And several other parties,

The announcers volce came

"As Mao Tse-tung told; 'Let over my car radio saying he was a hundred flowers blossom...." Interrupting the programme for

I asked General Cohen, the the news headlines at 3.30 pm. sturdy hybrid blossom, if he had

His voice and the tone

found anything to criticise in reserved the new Clitan,

for earth-shattering

news as be read the headlines.

They asked me the sonde. Ono was about.ab experiment thing at the dinner. This ia with healchildren and apples what I said to them:-

It has been discovered that "the schoolchildren who ate an apple a day had healthier teeth

"When I was at school learned that three of the most beautiful things in the world and gums.

"But It must be A crisp Funstt the Ilbes of

of apple,"

End of news headlines,

aro

Shakespeare, and the lines

the feminine figure. (He once

quelled a rlot In Canton by BRIEF ENCOUNTERS

bawling quotations

trop

"Richard II" at an interedu- lous mob).

نا

"But, I sold, when I walk down the street now in Pelding everyone

wearing those damned boiler suits, and I can't tell the men from the women, 11's terrible."

I MET them both on the same night.

The petlle Jady in the black hat with heavy black veli stopped at my table in a May- fair night club.

She said: "Why have you cut me stone dead?"

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THAT CHAIR

--VANIEIED--

PIP IT-BURN

UP

NO-NO ASHES.

WHEN THESE MIKE GRIPS WENT ON -- ~ DISAPPEARED-

BRICK BRADFORD

WHERE PO YOU GET THE

KLING!

THAT'S WHAT NO MIRRORG-- NO TRAP DOORS HAPPENED-TO --NO TRICKS-ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WENT IN-

I REDEEMED IT! PAM HOCKED IT 10 SET FASSAGE MONEY

BACK TO THE STATIS!!!

FERDINAND

I'VE CHECKED WITH PAM'S BANK, NO CHECKS HAVE OGEN DRAWN ON HER ACCOUNT, IM PRETTY BURE SHE DOESN'T KNOW

HER OWN IDENTITY/

CINEMA POSTER

TO BE CENSORED

WHY--WOULD THEY LURE STRANGERS HEREJĮ

~KILL THEM I

BUT YOU'RE SURE SHE IS IN THE STATES!

as

She is now 16.

looked beautiful and The book was a best-seller. unspolled Like a girl who has The Bible.

She Antonio.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

WE DON'T K{OW THEY DID THAT NARDA. I THOUGHT THIS WAS A

STRANGE PLACE BUT ITS

STRANGER THAN I

|_ IMAGINEP÷-

REASONABLY SO/ BUTI DONT KNOW

WHERE!

1

MUCH STRANGER MMANDRAKE!

Sheaffers

CONTINUED

NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXCLUSIVE

STERLING SILVER TIP

By Paul Norris

WELL, LETS PIND HER. IT IS APPARENT SHE IS BADLY IN NEED OF HELP... BUT I-I'M COMMMITTED TO

-THE GOVERNMENT/

AUSTIN

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