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POCKET CARTOON

BY FRIELL

集

THE CHINA MAIL, · TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1960.

JAK (that's him up the pole) and GEORGE meet the Champ

Invasion

of

U.S. WEATHER SATELLIE ESTYING ON US -Russia CARIER

"Well at monid be a waste ul tane sending it over Brifend to And out what the wenties I like t

un me, it will be easy to Kod ar y when we rome

bark

And talking of the gold Fart Knas. problem At Corporal Schults, might ↑

draw your attention to a sterling deficit_right" hare on the site ? **

437/

2M1

It's my doctor, Miss Phipps Middleaged executres ust take more exercise e kops. Now to ci UF

• dictation....

HENRY COO- gentleman,

MR PER

lately of the county of Kent, now residing tem- porarily in Buckingham- shire, usually charges £10,000 to it you on the *ooter--the trade term for a punch on the nose.

In some circles, Mr Cooper's fees might be held to be exor- bitt, but such an attitude wold be unrealistic, and out of keeping with the times.

Some years. Du When Mr Cooper was plastering walls and cellings as a means of liveli

de, a might

[bly

have given you a comradely cilp. over the car for nothing.

Mathematician

But that was before he met a rather remarkable mathematician named Jones Wicks, known in the higher echelons of suciety os The Bishop of Bermondsey.

Mr Wicks, benign, balding, and Inclined 10 embonpoint, was not alway

mathematician. Chce, miny years ago, he was even kown to go to work, though it is with obylous reluc- tance that he recalls those per- spiring. Profitiess days as 2 stevedore and a fish porter.

D

At

Mr Wicks saw the light when he beard bookmaker described as an angel-and promptly set tut to do likewise. He also

for establisheri

himself enviable and distinguished!

remitation

professional hoxer, maling beaten throughout in eten ↑ De career lasting best part of three minutes.

ru 24-

il

"The geezer

I was fighting

miscel

14/

fall over Round Three

so 1 knock-

ed 30 out in

Read Oue it

'Enery shows us (well, one

us

of us

left hook-for free!

1 gut link that it was with pride.

) his famous

I asked, and was given-with- Mr Cooper could not hurt his Mr vanity, some mlight say that out thought of profli, percentage, (Mr Erskine's) Aunt Fanny. addens was able last week to offer or personal gain. Honestly.

"We done our left fork. Buat a knuckle. Elac we'd have killed in" said Mr Wicks.

Then Jo beat me for the tille," said Mr Cooper.

"Daylight robbery. Erskine, Lidded to us," said Mr Wicks,

"Then I beat Joe on a konek It is no new debate. Indeed,

uut and won the title," said Mr Henry and Joe have argued the Cooper. demolition of Aunt Fanny on six

"Poor old Joe. We really said total of 40 did letti in that time," + Jak, too, will come to realise occasions over

Mr Wicks, signal three-mhaute rounds in the past and appreciate what

the ultimate

Questioned on the faint possi- honour has been conferred upon eight years, with

hitherto undistinguished issue still undecided and scores his face.

fiotible-rrussex explained

Wicks, with a difident

dum to the effect that ear physical proof of mar close-knit was a great moment for me,

tu this cartounist restored one's faith. buncle on the buck of his neck friendship

ia had luni

whom I have measure of fellow with some

work. Name of Jak, I under- urgency tu. the occasion.

stand.

Economics

**Rif we digress. Laius back to the day a distressed My Wirks discovered Mr Cooper, hit- ting people un the nose without getting paid for it. A black day inelen. Host an earnest talk on

Jak refused to belleve that Was in any position to ask favours-of-the-British heavy- weight champion. Silly boy.

He will know differently when, after a suitable period of convalescener, he finds out what it him in the Buckinghamshire

Aunt Fanny

It

level at three-three...

outpointed Joe in the amateur cruiserweight cham pionshilp

1052, sald Mr Cooper.

fa

"Every killed 'Im?" said Mr Meanwhile, we had business Wicks.

eemmmies, the facts of life, and village of Wraysbury the other affairs to attend to. Se leaving

morning.

the frailties of human naturo son part matters to rights.

WDS

Soviet Salmon

GERALD KEMMET

IT

was a strange fish that was found in salmon nets off the coast of England recently. Nobody at the fishery company could say what it was. The mystery

deepened when marine biologists identified it as Oncorhynchuan gorbus- cha, & humped-backed salmon that lives in the warm coastal waters of the North Pacific.

How did the salmon and its way half across the world to the North Sea? Experts say the fish is only the spearhead of a massive invasion of Pucife salmon.

And the salmon are on their way, not from the Pacific but from the Arelic. They Soviet salmon, reloused in Arctle waters by the Russians, who brought them 4,000 miles overland from the Manchurian sea-board.

Hatcheries

salmon

of Millions

Sakhalla packed in canisters Island on Russia's Pacific coast, went by train to Murmansk, the Soviet seaport on the Arctic Circle,

The eggs were released into hatcheries in the estuaries that dow into the Barents Sen.

Now, shoala Soviet Kulmon bility that Mr Erskine might re- have made their way north and taliale in some meassure today west round the tip of Scandi- Mr Wicks looked wounded as havia and are pressing on south- though 1 had done a Brutus act words towards our In the middle of his back.

.

coaste p

search of new feeding grounds. Russia's Pacific coastline is "Are you polly?" he de- rich in fish, but the prop is manded.

mur-barren and has a tiny pula- "Enery will

der 'im. Today is my birthday." loss. Salmon for cities and in-

GEORGE WHITING

-London Express Service,)

dustrial areas, must be carried thousands of miles,

TO

By stocking the seas nearer Thome the Russians hope

beat this supply problem.

London Exprese Service.

Divorce for 2s. 3d.

WE the in the Army trials six months

And the most current Affair for Mr

MT Wicka.

MOSCOW.

iny horizontal colleague to the "I managed to beat him again

VE rose with a clatter of chairs as into the Moscow City Court walked kindly healing hands of

pretty Judge Maria Ilyena, 28-year-old mother of two. She took her Yes, gentlemen, it the camp ruiner, Mr Danny Hol- tater," said Mr Cooper. As a resid. Mr Cooper is now The heavyweight champion of famous left hook, wrapped in an Jand, we moved into the bar of

'Enery murdered "im!" said seat behind a bare brown table in the arid little room. On either side 12-outco training The George tp discuss current

woman. Great Britain and the British orthodox,

an elderly her deputies flanked her: a middle-aged man and Empire, and Mr Wicks is his glove, admittedly, but delivered affairs. manager

highly teleitous un Jak's fast-receding chin with

"Then Joc beat me," said Mr Moscow's divorce court was in session. arrangement by which Me Wicks all the adroitness, skill and pre-

Cooper is that, en- Cooper. cision of which Henry Cooper,

Through the afternoon; with The "postcard" divorce era through the court. Judge Tyena gets 25 per cent of the take for

couraged by Mr Wicks, he has "Diabolica!!" said Mr Wicks. our champion, is capable.

clinical thoroughness, 90 per cent, of the talk.

Judge is over for Russia. Everyone, ordered silence. promised publicly to annihilate

Judge Ilyena thought that the considered applications up to Nikita Khrushchev, wants Then we both turned u 'Mr Joe Erskine of Cardiff at

wife's passion for her husband. Wembley today this Mr fessional and Joe beat men for divorce from her fellow-citi to bolster and preserve mac-

ringe. Sut the procedure I had evaporated when she met Erskine having hinted that points," said Mr Couper.

watched is startlingly different her present boy friend. from what we know in Britain. But she listened to neighbours who said the marrige had never been happy,.und granted, thờ divorce, with the wife paylag E18)

It is my privilege to know Mr Cooper and Mr Wicks quite well, and 1 do not mind admit-

And delivered,

Nimreover, with Mr Wicka's personal per-

nission-for free.

Sir Basil pulls out

a very big plum

CATHEDRAL BEHIND HIM...

ONCE already

To nak tinan to build t cathedral in this century is to

ask him to speale lu Shakes

NOW

FOR

BY ANNE SHARPLEY

- - - WITH

HIS

AN EMBASSY

like the Elizabethans, tears rushi readily to his eyes, his dreams do embarrass him, nor his tasks dispirit.

not

But unlike Sir Edwin's agree will be sheets of water and a merciless UNESCO able and ensily solved task of great sense

its own,

peure, play to Bach, paint for inlo Rome, the Porta Pla, stands

Piero della Francesca.

close to where the new Bmixtasy will arise. A challenge quite as

wuy,

of space.

himself and the ucross

•

'Bow wave

The sweat

amila of

continued

SUCCESS ——

Sir Basit Spence and

*friand."

Jin-yena

zens.

was

Impolite

One case I watched concerned 500 roubles (just under

a worker in a musical instru- costs. The money will go to an

ment factory who claimed his orphanage.

wife had forced him to leave Not all the deerees were as her.

MAD.

expensive as that. A greying He said that hig wife had woman of 37, uttractive, and the been impolite to his mother.. sert you know could turn out a Now he was living with his Bve batch of piping scones in no year-old son with another wo- time flat, gave evidence that her husband, an habitual loafer, This case lasted 45 minutes. had been sentenced to two years At the end of it Judge Ilycan. in jall for crime. sald: "There will be no divorce. Times of hearing: three You have a wife who is ready minutes

flat; divorce. granted; cost

to take you back and a son who

loves you."

the

to the ap-

There were 18 of us in plicant: three roubles.. the church-like pews in 28, 3d.

Starting a divorce action. In steam-heated court. The windows were misty husband and wife appear before Iussia is a simple matter: The Inside, and outside were a local Justice of the Peace and duated.

aleet.

with glittering state whether they want

divorce or not;

Then the person seeking. u adverting in the divorce must local newspaper. Ono in MOSCOW

Those around me were divorce seekers, their neighbours, family and friends, dzi

Apart from Judge Ilyena, in usually carries between 30 and 40 such announcements each trim green sweater

light

and

kirt, the court was absolutely day.

Innocent of a

lawyer, All questions came from her.

Difficulties

Sir Basil Spence has been called on to find our

"It will not be a glowy build- modern answer to an old,

ing," he sys, thinking of the building in prodigious attainment to

Both Parls, the glasshouse at which which most of us in our setting a handsome, building on water and spoce will dow nearly all architects have thrown

among trees, along underneath... and through the stones. secret, timid hearts be-

"It will be marble, and Basil, like all Ab uncrowded uncompeting building. Bir lieve there can

Roman Port- travertine ko be no thoroughfare-Sir Basil Bas, te ardent lover making his declare

land stone. And a great deal build for Rome, reply.

tlon, set up the image of Idea!

of shade, I would like it to be And not merely Rome at harmony between

ralved on great strong mush- largo-but for a corner of it Michelangelo juɛt dominated by Michelangelo.

.room shaped columns-with a grand staircase of marble and

My over-all · Impression wps Then there is a wait, three Michelungelo's great gateway

doncrete,

Whose monastery, cloisters were Thirty years ago. Sir Edwin one of determination to save the months, sometimes six, balore He looks at a scale mulei of always thickly shaded by some Lutyens

given nearly marriages if possible as she the court, hearing? It is difficult the site that the Ministry of huge cedar. Whose love and £1,250,000 to build his embassy

quentioned wife, husband, for couples with children to get "I shall use his scale. Home Works have supplied. There is understanding of times is surely in Washington. About Uhe same mother-in-law, and even busy a divorce In Himals, but there It all made is no equivalent of the már- young men of 22 because, he sense to me.

ringecounsellors who do no "But I do belleve in bulkling has already had to build against half. It is aggressively mascu-

the six-and-a-half-acres) of gar-

"YCA, he answers, "I shall wid, he "liked his face."

The second case was typical much good work in Britain, A cathedrals," he raid, stamping with all is Gothic superiority. Ing. Our Horse Guards, for

Marriages pre exposted. In blo foot, to one of the great

instance, is the scale of a man tion that we bought originally build my staircase around that Edwin, though a notable eccen- of the capes of childles

In 1877.

Iree. Romantic, I know, but it le tric and given to whims, had ringes ending in divorce.

last longer and longer as new, men of our lime who suggested

just right for six-foot high

Hiso senken look at the The wife, a splendid tree."

a trim young homes aro built and as, over- igures. But I shall bulld on

It is typical of his kindliness young mari's drawings),

student of social science, said: crowding at the family levol is Michelangelo's' grander scale.

(rather than romanticism) that

don't love my husband any,, essed, And now we are asking ho Ronin eyes; so used to archi- "And in the corner of every

in his new scheme for blocks of Thirty years later that young

At inst the day's list ended. X to wrestle with another giant. tecture, so understanding of ita one of my drawings for the em-

He is to design the new forma will inevitably travet bassy I shall put a scale draw. He pats one of the wire-and- flats in the Gorbals he has given man, now Sir Besit (the "Sirro.There is another man'

Judge Liyena: You must be a wweater out. And nho told British Embassy in Rome to re- from Michelangelo's frowning ing of the Parta Planso that I rubber-sponge model trees lov- each flat, a terrace, garden out optional and morily forgotten) whom I met two months ago," followed the fudge in aereon.

site its own windows, even is given the Embassy of Rome quiete person. How long did you her philosophy: place, the one blown up by the piece of architecture to what shan't, forget il for, a single Ingly and intingly. Stern gang o 1947,

the British have put next to it intent"

That's a tuzgnificent Roman, though it is twenty foots up to do. Not as reperelve a job, know. your first husband before I am happily married. So I don't like giving A great prestige plum and What is to be our kuryer le All sense of Incongruity dle pine, ff. high, wonderful The result will be a remarkable it is true, (£200,000)but you morried him?--Blx wasks.

looking building with rows of groster, test.

Beside me an old lady, qui divorce to others. certainly the greatest to be thak great swartwine suteway appears-Sir Basil, like Micho trea. The hint is taken.

La bullding an which topless, chuckled and with im onatefialien, podi langelo, is a 10th-century Aguro Ho belunge after all to the projecting fina

"People want somewhere 19 British architecture will be whipered loudly:"The... dirli

-ROSS MARK ments, and cartouches?

-not merely because his beard nation that built the '1841 Greki

look their time more th my day.” Lutyens was given the British "It will be a British palazzo parla lite a bow wave on ollker Exhibition around its elm trees, hing their washing is his sang, judged,

Mickenden Kaprano Service)». | Thai-seni Imighter, whirling Embassy in Washington In 1931. in marble and concreto, There side of a. determined chin but rather than cut them down, più explanation.

Yet his Coventry Cathedral considerable as the vid portion

stands roofed and almost ready, of Coventry Cathedral witch he is on the scale of a mon and the Porta Pla, the Roman wall greater than that of any other time he took on to his staff a body neighbours

other boundary and nation.

this was not a contury for new cathedrals,)

pulled out of the Ministry of Works pie since air Edwin

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Our answer.

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