1960-01-02 — Page 6

WE ALL

have some BAD HABITS- but in-

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1960.

body of

JACKY'S DIARYJACKY Mendelsohn 3.39 There was amam there upo THIS? They had a Bow Boot there, only Some BODY MUST OF

Yesterday Daddy took me to THE GYM The belongs To Where He does Extra-size,

GYM: nauseum

Age 32%

First we dio Bending Over

Touching Your Toes, Which. is good for YOUR ABominable Muscles*

PS: Man who MUST of Extra-Sized Every Day. He had biggest Stummick Muscles ever seen

(wow!)

Stole The BOOT PART, BUT they couldn't STEAL The OORS, ON A COUNT OF THEY were MAILED down

S

E

Then we went in a Room That's called a TURKEY'S Bath, where qUESS YOU GO IN

| WATCH TURKEYS ger A bath. We had pretty

good Seats, only We Couldn'T SEE the Show

CAUSE The placE WAS full of Smoke,

[FODEY)!

Those are the ones in Youn

Stummick

Then Daddy got tired & Laid down on a TABLE, ONLY)This morning Daddy WOKE UP WITH Some

(after THAT WE TOOK AT Scold pretty soon a Big Bully came over & started into SHOWER Daddy Said its Good | PUNCH him & Also bend his arni, So Thates When for you on a COUNT of iT CLOSES bit him. Up Your Paws. Think 201

/bring my car here So He (CANT SCRATCH Me Any more!

BRR

body NAMED Charlie's Horse, i hope get a chance to ride him before he gets Stolened ALSO

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ON THE ROLL

START reading this today and

don't be fooled by the title...

ON

THE BEACH

is no summertime frolic, it's the most

frightening film ever made-about

people like Moira spending her days

in an alcoholic haze,

her nights ignoring fate

INCE I haven't got much time to put this story down on paper before the catastrophe is upon us, I had better cut out the literary frills and stick to the facts. The facts aren't pretty, to say the least.

When I first came out from England, in 1950, to work as a boffin on the Woomera Rocket Range, one of the local news papers described me as the H-Bomb wizard," and added:

he

CX-

Am writing this in Mel- "Julian Osborn is a chormer bourne, Australia. The line is rangy, slightly +looped but December 17, 1982. My name boyish in a scholarly way, and

looks is Julian Osborn,

nrad tiks ordinarily like Fred Astaire."

They wouldn't be so flattering Science is a about me now. dirty word around these parts If you start at the moment. apportioning the blame for what

think has happened, I

the

THIS EXPRESBED

Or politicians, the generals, and VERSION

should IS ADAPTED the people themselves "ON THE BEACH" FROM THE UNITED ARTISTS FILM BASED ON THE DOOR BY NEVIL Share the guilt with us. But we boffins are the inevitable target. SHUTE.

SURRENDER

Haven't you something with a little more fight in 11?"

"After all," my friends say to me, bitterly, savagely, "you If invented the damn thing.

it hadn't been for you, there beca an would never have HI-Bomb."

Preoccupied

I used to reply to that by aying: "We also lavented the inotor-car, but it isn't us who go around mocking down old ladies in the street."

But what's the use? Nobody listens. And I can't say I blame them, for this isn't the time for being reasonable. Everyone's

How long it will be, for

mind is on other things insanec, before IT arrives,

Take

by

LEONARD

MOSLEY

HERE AN 1. JURJAN GEBORN FALJĄS FRED ASTAIRE)

our the

Six months ago Móira David- 100 WRE one of tho gayest, freshest, as well as one of the most radiantly lovely girle you have ever seen. Life was good for her, and full of promise.

But now, like most of us, she has changed. We all have our private ways of keeping minds of thoughts about future, My method is to tinker with a brand-new sports car someone left lying around on the street because there is no longer any petrol left to run it on. I had it towed away, and work on it in my garage through those hours of the night- when i can't sleep.

A hazé

Moira's method is through the bottle and through ment. She

the

into a radar screen-just in case spends her time in an alcoholic the haze. She was once as fresh as one of the planes from other side tried to sneak through a spring flower. Now, though our defences on a surprise raid. still beautiful, she looks ravaged, rate bilier. At He thought he saw something 'and on his radar screen, Was it an Moira's going she'll beat the enemy plane carrying a hydro- nuclear death clouds to the

thousandth of a intention. a look around Met. Een bomb? He knew that if he punch -- and maybe that is her

hesitated 17

would bourne this morning. If you second his own country

And yet, this morning, there didn't know, you would never be wiped off the map.

is something different about guess what kind of calamity" de So he pushed a button. Then Muira. She seotné quite steady approaching us from just over someone else pushed a button in on those admirable pins, She Soon the horizon.

they were has inade retallation.

up more carefully everywhere than usual. It is a lovely summer day, pushing buttons

Last night we gave a party tramers are packel and off went the planes and the

a in honour of ench with

Dwigin Towers. with parents taking their kide guided misalles, down for a day at the brich, hydrogen bomb in its belly. Towers is an True, the troms are the only Death and destruction rained commander of the big nuclear mechanical vehicles that seem down.

working Otherwise, everyone is riding a bike or a the horse-and-cart.

and the

to

No petrol.

American, the

the

the BAWFISH, For a mad couple of weeks which you can soo, lying in the

world went crazy. After harbour. that, it was all over. Contineils

He and his crew are the only wers wiped out and the people survivors from the holocaust up with them. What the bomba north. They were on

Di themselves didn't do, the poison those month-long

expeditions of nuclear radiation for the U.6. Navy when IT clouds

were and

Guili happened, finished off. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South Russia,

bottom of crawling along the Inlo a America-ll turned

subterine,

OBC

A car come round corner, but its bonnet has been removed and the engine under heath it, and it is being pulled

along by a donkey attached 10 Mobal graveyard by the deadly the veoan for weeks after it get?" be unlock, Ironically.

mykeshift shafts.

aro

Except for Australia.

Praying

WAS DYES,

somewhere

boar

+

MOIRA (AVA GARDNER), A GIRL WITH NO TOMORROWS

And now hero was Moira and, "What are you trying to for

tos onto at 10 in the morning, Moira, said: "That's a damned she was stone cold sober, When the SAWFISH antaged silly question, if ever I heard "He nemily believes it!" she Alaska, the one." She took a gulp of her sad. "He thinks they're still submarine's nuclear detectors drink, and then went on alive? And if he bellevo It, bean shouting out the alarm "We're not supposed to talk doesn't that mean that there is

the about FT, are we? But when hope, after all?" Five months have gone by They plumged downto wunder and ra

I shook my head at her sadly. depthe

not you've had enough of this, you WO

into can't help it. Tell me, com- "It's nonsence," I said. "Just now and we are still here,

freak surface until they came

the coastal waters DI the manaler, why is it taiding so the wishful thinking of same- are still alive because

long? winds and rainstorms have

Explain it to me. No, one who's lost his loved goes. But how long have we got be for held off the radiation clouds. Philippines.

Through the periscope, Tow-don't tell me about those damn Thero an't a chance. After the

the ers Burveyed mausoleum winds. All I want to know is, first wook up there not a single

SVENS .it everybody

birt, animal, or man wun left that used to be Manila and why, fore the winds change and

80

We all have electric power, radiation from the Bomb, but our supplies of petrol are Almost gone now, Potrol camo to Australia from the Northern hemisphere, and there won't be any more stuipments from that quarter. So the automobiles in which we used to ride to work

the country or out into parked along the kerbe, derellat. their doors awfuzing open.

How long will it be before we too are as less and lifelong is our turn?

The optimists say it may took his craft under water once start, they diễn't know what' aliye." as those, chen-shiny cara? How never happen. That the muclear more

It was not until weeks would happen that nobody long have we gott

It wor then that any tulo- would die," polson may be dissipated by later that he eventually found buld win that everybody

"They didh” he said, “but phone rang. It was Captala Talo before it reaches us. That his way hore we may escape after alt from

Moiro interuptext him, “I. Bride, the commander of Med our hideous date.

can't 'take it much, longČET". No, bouse, naval base, A strange, quiet, deadly calm that's not night. I'm not like "That you, Julian?”: bua nakuch, man, Commander Towers. Aa

Or will the mingle heppen #fter all, sar some of my fellow scientista bellave, ́and soVE. LA before it is too late?:

It is just five months since rợ happened. The wor; I mean The button

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