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CARTOONS FROM THE THIRD PRISONER Horror In
Two Gaoled Britons
Save A Lost
Artist
London.
at the
Look again
cartoons on the right signed Cortis for looking at
you
are
Richard Solves
smiles from a prison Problem
cell.
And behind them is the re-
the cell
markable story of Third Man in the where Nasser keeps James Swinburn and James Zurb, Britans gaol-
ed for "spying."
A hart-warming story fun, <1 tane men, the intelves fuced with b.ng
who
C
:ther' With
Who windle the world ula-hether on Anglo- Evation again will soun bring them hyrdom, are worry- tra hout IS future.
For the Third Man, George Cartis, is also a Belifh citizen he amt his erli-mates are
the only ones among the 3.500 prisoners in Tura Gaol, Cairo. He cera from a middle-class Emily who made their home in Alexandria. He studied art in
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he he been amend morderen, dego peddlers, robbe in the devert prison for nearly eid! years since he was 24.
With two other young men hr was accused of ploiting to rob a villa- robbery which never actually took place.
Cerls got a 15-year sentence. The thris got ball and fed the ecuntry.
Tu Hi Turn el he
marned
a ulica, embittered man.
1 family, turned out of Egypt with other Britons in 1956, were
in Australia. He was no longer in touch with them. He had no
Itands. No hope.
Then, on a day in 1957, James Zarb and James Swinburn ar rived at Tusa. And the rebirth of Gorge Cortis began.
Zar, a ceramies designer, is
ta competent artist. Swinburn Took agy sketching and water colour painting with niment fanatic zeal. They rekindled the love of art in Cortis.
"Happiest Man”
They shared their paints with [fr) ndless Cortis and the paper, brushes, and pencils sent in by the Swiss wives ant
their Embassy.
Then a few months ago he breame the Third Man In the fourth floor cell from whleh Swinburn and Zarb can look But over the Ne.. From : cell a few of his skelches eame to England in
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**PEER' is best," say the beer-makers keenly. I'm not sure about that, but I'll give them
one thing: the beer from Britain IS best.
Over here the brew is rather like the worst of American woman: too thin, colourless, lacking in taste, too gassy--and cold as ice.
With Ameriem women there to it.
The wide-eyed pretty In other words, it should
girls manipulation of pubile opinion gather round and the keen and desires are all too obvious. ..ru mny triumphant excep. b British. Lions.
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On my desk is a report that throughout California sales of beers from Britoin, Germany. and Scandinavia have gone un no less than 40 per cent at the expense of the loent product.
And this is despite the fact that our beers cost around 40 cint (s. 10d.) a tin, or bottle,
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• BY. THE · WAY ·
by Beachcomber
STRABISMUS (Whom said, "About you?" he asked: D'God Prouver, of Vireckl, "Of
said che.
course,"
"Tell is suld to be putting the nish- them our peas have no designs which on cuter space!" Thus they ing touches to a rocket will reuch nebulae so distant parted. "What the devil am I to do with nil these comel-loads of As light travels at 11,000,000 pas?" Egham asked himself.
minute, and these
that they have never been seen.
miles # nebulae are
already 746,000,- Gardening note 000,000,000 light years from the earth, and are travelling further away at twice the speed of light,
and this
OUT IN FRONT with modern living as usual, Americans can 106 buy a non-skid, non-tip. windproof, superstrong, water- preof paper picnic plate,
★ INLISTD inte the Army as & recrult: 22-year-old Steven Rockefeller, son of New York's new Governor, Nelson Rocke- teller.
He was sworn in at Fort Dix in New Jersey
He'll start eight cels of basic training there, and go on to ocher training duties. After that there's only six months' active service and he's tree and civilian ocaln But he's Kable for five nod half [: bravice,
TIP for
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CTOR Errol Flynn has been suspended by Equity
In Amerien Bills were pre- Jared in Congress to ban it, all the best papers editorialised hard and heavy, and countless intellectuals lost many nights steep. Today We learn it workten.
for walking out on n play writ- ten by food chain magnate James M. Vleary, the youth- Huntingdon Hartford.
ful ad man who backed it hard Flynn left the play, "Jane at the start admits now: "I Eyre" In Cincinnati last year, have been taking a heck of It opened on Broadway Jater teking- with another actor in the lead-
He has 100. ing role.
il
The adverse
publlelty virtually wrecked his extablished market research business. He has had to sack
his 15-man staff and stort out again-not with subliminal-in
smaller offee.
a
SAMMY MOSS. aged 10, put on his cul's uniform for a pack meeting the other night ond
life gave his
for hie
TV end cluoma contractors mother.
who nibbled at the idva dropped He ran between her and at when the outcry began, rejected suitor, Albert Colvin, aš Colvin fired at her.
Sammy died maybe in valu His mother-she is 34,
unconscious Reserve divorced-iy
critically I.
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ONDON planist Clerry Ashton is today the toast of Variety, Home from the U.S. show business paper.
In big banner headlines they
gaot-and safe for
The Law Of Coincidence
duces
By JOHN LUFF. THE publisher intro- novelist Alfred Maund to us by saying that in "The Big Boxcar," he follows the of Thornton pattern Wilder in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."
That is wrong. Thurnton Wilder set out to explore the pet uncharted sea of what Edgar Wallace called, the "Law of Coincidenec." Why do Ave people meet ou a bridge which will collapse?
What strange forces compel errian people to meet on D Hone already doomed?
What makes one man havo difficulty with the custarju, misa Be plane and thereby Bavo hla lite?
No, Alfred Maund followe pattern of Chaucer, in which five men and one woman Are blgrims lo Boxcar to the Northern States of America.
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Four of the men and the women are black; the soiltory white man has filed a chain gang. And after the fashion of Chaucer, Mr Maund has everyone tell a iale In turn,
Brutality
Alfred Maund can write, make no mistake, His languago 13 Anglo Saxon, vigorous Ruff, with a plentiful sprinkling of Southern Idiom.
Mr Maunds from Louisland. I know nothing of Louisiana from experience. I hope Mr Maund is exaggerating: I cannot question his stories.
I hear uneasy tales of racial distinction from time to time. I have watched at the cinema those beely brutal men who atap-Jack DOGY
white trash and black folk.
I have seen aims of the Ku Klux Klan riding in their night- shirts to lynch some poor negro, but in my heart I have hoped it is no mero typical of the Southern States than Nolting Hill is of England,
a year report his claim to be Britain's The "Talking Dog"
TV column
champlon Blmgoer.
ist MARIE TORRE
Clarry says he has been to fondly reunited every feature film over 3.000ft. with cight long released since 1937. Не month-old has scen more than 15,000 daughter Pims, Yearly average of late; ROMA. Marte 300. Weekly record: 37.
was goled for
10
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TARGET
days tor
contempt of
court because
of
news
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Now Garland. British exile, lost and lawyer mys he will not lonely, on these shores; be he THAT QUESTION again
ever
so penniless and inclt- a year. ng in gumption, he still re-
tains one priceless possession
his English accent.
worth
is
It's
its plummy, drawling, hot-pourto weight or such gold,
my experience,
The unfashionable slopen vl Manhattan, where I live, are
MISS AMERICA 1958-Nancy Corcoran-has Announced ker to Paul La Cava, engagement former detective. He now own Los Angeles building firm.
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persuading politely known
as "subliminal advertising" has been knocked right off TV and cinema screens for many years to come.
now enjoying 021 En THAT sneaky plece of hidden craze." Elsewhere, maybe, they stal remember the War of Inde pendence, but her officers and gentlemen are all the rage.
At home, 1 never quite made either class, but here I'm borne
have hackers along w 趁 tide ef popular knocked out of business, fervour.
The phenomenon fa imited, I
understand, to the lower echelons of West Side New York hostesses, the kind of creatures that take up Interesting People.
been-
And I has all been done by the force of public Indignationi, not to mention downright terror that rose up both in Britain and Amerten when the scheme was first put about last year.
"Subilminal odvertising" was At parties, to speak English- the idea flashing on our hoving screens a sales message-say, style is as good
talent for
Bill's bunion toale," or stained-glass "Buy windows or reputation for a "Vote for Brown"-on-arid-of so quickly that we didn't con. Anely wrought triclet.
sciously notice It.
But it's potent.
a
Hit
Your Introductions-"This is Mr Tomalin, he is English"--- But theory said that our sub- are made in tones normally conselous would take it in.
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Mr Maund, with lis"The Big Box car," has broken that illusion. "Good-Rocking Poppa's Story," bella of a romance,be. tween a white doctor and Q coloured New Orleans singer, Luia Blue. At once we are dis- quieted, while admiring Mr
Maund's effective straight- forward style.
Only in "Shorty's Story," does Alfred Mound permit himself to find humour in the tale of a yellow cur of a dog which stands up for the poor coloured folks who are Zerced to make "moonshine" for a corrupt police - farce.
Then moment of truth, Read this: "The Talking Dog didn't say a word, He didn'i even blink. but stood there like a brave runfighter in a Saturday night movie, daring Sheriff Johnson 10 do his damnedest. Ho didn't say a word when the sheriff shot, but just fell down and died with his head on his arm” Look at that for a pleca of wring. Two syllables to a word, often whole passages af mono-syllabled words. Yet do
rich. vastatingly compelling; rough, vivid, powerful narration,
Compulsion
So the book moves on from story to stery, with asides, as in Chaucer's Canterbury Thies, when the boxcar is slipped into ldings, or a town and a police search are imminent.
I read the bookt at one sli- (lng. There is a sense of compulsian about it, but the reader asks: If two negroes and a white girl were sitting having a Coke, would a police- man enter and smash tho negro boy across the knuckles, pulping the hand, and des. troying the coloured boy's hopes of ever becoming a prizo fighter?
Do the police frame negroes, and unconventional whites?
Alfred Maund, brilliant narrator, senaltive observer, courageous writer, Idealist, yet too fine an artist to cominent upon this in his narrativo, bas mode me feel very uneasy,
The discerning reader will And the narration is re- miniscent of John Sielabeok. the Horror is avoided by softening of his sentences,
It's crdinary talk-a tourist telling of his travels in which rape, pimps, false testimony, brutal lawman, callous police- men, and poor down-trodden neprocs, are all on accepted way of life.
The book is an indictment, no less of Notting Hill than Little Hook. IL tella ut man's inhumanity to man
It la the heart cry of a deleriet people told with the passion of a great srilat.
The Big Boxcar by Alfrat Maund. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. Price 19/60"
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