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JACKY'S DIARY &

Last week i promissed Would Tell You more Stuff about England, Which We're studying in Geography, Set Will,

EUROPE

an other Diffrents is they

PLAY LOTS OF CRICKET Which is something Like BASE Ball

EXEPT YOU USE a cricket

in stead,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1960.

JACKY Mendelsohn

Age 32%

Like all Ready TOLD

I Like for instants Big Ben,

Tick!

Whose a

Tick

You, England is a very

Old & HisteRYCAL

Man they

GOT THERE

COUNTRY,

with a big

[Clock Who?

must be a

HundERd

YEARS OLD,

ш

Nd

PS.

There's Lots of Diffrents between England] The UNINETY STATES, one diffrents is THAT Their Money Weighs More Then OURS, on a COUNT OF THEY PAY each other in PoundsS

Here's The 20 Pounds

i LOANED from You YESTER DAY

©1960 King Features Spadicate"

World nights Reserved,

the Diffrents Between a King &

Gee

(Thanks,

Also they keep a King in Stead of President, is THAt a King is DD VICE FOR

a President,

(Hello

(Hello,

Kin

BORN IN a PALACE, BUT A PR President is born in a Log Cabin,

a fut Re

PRESid

ent

CHILDREN:

You must nt Never Laugh on A English Man JUST because he don't Talk

ENgLish So good, Like US.

5-22

Jacky

Robots can work our atom

stations

By PETER FAIRLEY RITAIN'S atomic power.

BRITAIN'S powe

robot-controlled. The Atomic Energy Authority is about to take delivery of a re- volutionary computer sys- tem which monitors and can operate a giant atom- furnace.

It consists of five steel "boxes," containing thousands of components. It scans all the instruments which record what is happening inside the reactor, at the rate of five por second.

Its "brain" can predict what WILL happen, and sounds an alarm well in advance of danger.

Equipment can

be linked to the "brain" to operate the reactor automatically, or shut it down quickly.

Mr Andrew St Johnston, joint general manager of Elliott Brothers, who built the system, said today: "If the Authority had been able to put one of these into Windscale, the mishap there would never have happened."

More than 1,000 instruments can be checked every 21⁄2 minutes.

And once every 15 seconds the "brain" tests itself for faults,

The new system, cost £50,000 only a fraction of the total cost of an atom station. The irst will be used to gain human experience, but man is super- (luous.

-(London Express Servicaj„

Just Fancy That!

EN wives went to turn on the taps to do the washing up,

WHEN

sparks flew and the water bounced round the sink The phones just went pop-pop-pop.

J

In one home a woman dusting the bathroom had an electric

Mr.

Paris.

Paris Newsletter from J.W.M.Thompson

Durrell

finds a cure for

SOMETHING uncom FOUR BOOKS

fortably near hung-

er was the spur which

drove Laurence Durrell to his astonishing liter. ary success,

It is now three years since he celiled with his French wife in

¥

near

four-roomed coltage Nimes in Provence, with so little money that they often had to go short of essential groceries, cnd there seemed no prospect that the school fees of his two children, by a previous marriage in England, could be met.

Well worn

►

I called on Durrell last week, driving along three or four miles of a rutted pathway off the main road, in an area of abandoned farmland and rolling heath.

IN

IN ONE YEAR...

NOW HE'S THE TOAST OF FRANCE

The path is now excessively late Charles Morgan, a com- Mount Olive in three month's

Only way...

well wom from carloads of parison which provokes a wry and Clea in two months. American tourists ("We just grin from Durrell. thought we'd like to shake your hand"), French admirers and old Foreign Office friends ("On our way to Monte, we thought we'd drop in and say hello"), who have now established the coltage as the centre of an all- the-year-round literary pilgrim age.

Now that Durrell has com- pleted his so-called Alexandria quartet, it is clear that his success in France is even greater than that in Britain or America.

To French publishers the only parallel English literary success on the Continent has been the

î

Durrell told me: "If I had not heen so short of money I would have done a tidier job on them. "There are a lot of discrepan- cies which only the speed I was He explains his success in working at made unavoidable.

Durrell. France by describing himself as

short man " kind of sophisticated Rider (5. 34in), with a figure of Haggard who gives the French a flyweight boxer, is a brilliant the kind of sophisticated emo- and un-selfconscious talker.

He works at a table reaching tional situations which delight

from wall to wall of a small them,"

windowless room next to the kitchen.

once W8 the

He rolled out his four novels at a breathtaking speed he had decided that this the only

to meet grocer's bill,

way

He finished Justine in four months, Balthazar in six weeks,

ORDER TO AVOID CONFUSION AMONG

·OUR CUSTOMERS, WE WISH TO STATE THAT:

(1) WE HAVE ON NO OCCASION

SOLD OR

CONSIGNED ANY OF

OUR MERCHANDISE TO ANY

RETAIL STORE IN THIS COLONY.

(2) CERTAIN OF OUR MERCHANDISE BEARS THE LABEL “CHARLOTTE”. ANY MERCHANDISE, BEARING

THE LABEL "CHARLOTTE'S"

HAS NOT BEEN MADE OR

SUPPLIED BY US.

CHARLOTTE HORSTMANN.

ORIENTAL ARTS, HONG

KONG

Fresh start

He starts work at 6 am. after four or Ave cups of coffee, and writes direct on a typewriter. He can produce 5,000 words in a morning's work.

hunger

Beth Penrose and Cooper are

Now 50, Cooper began coliest. rich; both enjoy Picasso's close ing Picnases when he was an friendship. There the resem- undergraduate at Oxford in the blances end. For whereas '20s. Cooper is ebullient and brilliant, Penrose is a much more self- effacing character.

He claims that Picasso him- self is disappointed at the scope of the Tate Gallery show.

He quotes Picasso as saying that "only pictures that have tready been reproduced or pub- lished will be shown. There will

Every now and again Picasso, who appears to enjoy the situa- tion tries to bring his two English champions together. be no noveliles."

1 is a touching sight, often repeated, when he makes them shake hands and, like two errant

not schoolboys, promise' quarrel again.

to

A scandal

Cooper is the word's greatest authority on Picasso's Cubist period.

Invariably, of course, it is not a handshake ment, but a prelude to a new averted something of a scandal after a disaZTOE-- It was his kncavledge which round of hostilities,

at the Jast Pleassa show held in Cooper is a man who has London. aroused violent enmities in

There he discovered just in English art circles. And he is time that two of Picasso's Cubist convinced, that he

being paintings, were deliberately cold shouldered down. over the Picasso show.

He does not correct, but if a passage doesn't please him he throws it away and starts atresh.

His present income from royalties on his books is about

£4,000 a year, but this will, of 7 course, mount rapidly to a much large figure in the next few years, in view of the fact that each book sells the others.

There is also the prospect of} [10 what he calls "large capital gains."

Thus he is now working on a film script of Cleopatra and Hollywood is also bargaining for 7

a film version of the quartet,

At 48. Durrell, has arrived, but remains completely unmoved by 20 his success.

His wife sums it up by point- ing to a bottle of pastis on the kitchen shelf and saying "The only difference success has made to us so far is that we are now able to afford a bottle of that regularly,"

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★ Incidental Intelligence: ||25 There was a magnificent bullfight in Nimes recently, The bullfighter fainted.

Rivalry

is

hung upside

-(London Express Service).

A British Crossword Puzzle

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12

ACROSS

1 He makes one 01 (0),

12

13

14

16

4 Associated with a fire at the end of some winter months, (5)

7 On with It! (6)

& This the edentate cannot dol

(5)

(4)

LONG-STANDING rival- Ary between two English- men, who have long been the 10 Pass over the bowls captain. foremost interpreters of 12 Begone, temper! It's somE- Picasso's work, now threatens thing atrocious. (7) to mar the quality of the 15 "Eleven, twelve, dig and forthcoming. Tate Gallery 16 Pubs of “court, ma; je. (4)

(5) show of Picasso's paintings.17 Possible brain-wave. (4)

The two men are Mr. Roland 19 No longer a teenager, (5)

20 Hufried back with speed Penrose and ert historian Mr

to tell the tale, (7) Dougles Cooper.

21 Sinister. (4) :- Mr Cooper told me when I 23 Don't kill, (5) saw him in bis, South of France 24 Stout railwayman! (6) home last week that Mr Penrose 25 People meeting each other had not asked to bomow a single

(5) picture from his collection of 26 It's a system they have on Pleasso which some people the Continent, (6) consider to be the best Picasso collection in English hands,

Mr Cooper, also said, that he had offered to collaborate with Mir Penrose in organising the exhibition; but that his office had: been refused;

may come to them.

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DOWN

1 Fleece the essayist's rela

tions, (8)

2 Not among the favourites, of

course. (8)

3 Uniform for the last of the

team. (4)

5 Monkey one may see on the

square! (8)

6 The officer who knew how

to carry himself? (6) Undressed kid. (5)

Newton the

11 Not what gave

idea of gravity! (8)

12 Egg-shaped (5)

13 Worker-consumer body! (8) 14 Eire Scot becomes mysteri-

OUE, (8)

18 Comparatively moist, form

of bread. (6)

22 Make me

an architectural feature of Brighton, (4)

3 Se-arch-ed, 8

-YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD --Across: Leader, 9 Egoistic, 11 8-a-lad-oil, 12 Rime, 13 Medea, 18 Darts, 19 Char, 22 Sirrups, 24 Conquest 25 Legion, 20 Ehmeshed. Down: Clasp, 2 Cable, 3 Beedbed, 4 Ergo, & Rail, 6 Hot air, 7 Dickey, 10 Oller, 14 Dante, 15 8-tart-ed, 10 lelele, 17 Bamum, 20 Tunis, 21 Using, 22 Suba 23 Inle,

shock. Fire broke out in another.

So the other night they cut off the current at Barleston, in Lafeester, while engineers were trying to trace the trouble, believed to be due to mining subsidence.

THE Irish Navy lost two newly enlisted ratings the other night. THE

Three male nurses called at a'Cork marine training depot and took the recruits back to a mental hospital they escaped from last week.

ROLEX

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