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THIS IS AMERIC

New York, Monday

AMERICANS: THEY ARE

PHONE CRAZY

THE telephone, it seems, has become an indis- pensable part of U.S. life. It is used for gossip. for business, and for tapping. It is found in cars. gardens, bathrooms, even in junior's

playroom.

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least lurer KUNSPO ANY from her American femi

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regard the phone as a meras Ana OXING Bols of the Weddin

And yesterday

Put plan from New

We urged

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Metris 60 per cent of aldat

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phone.

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"Tha ing best phone bencijs

Betroll to steel Inth Robert Cranseer.

I will b "a quiet family wedding party."

Bays Ho

Conservative, estimate of the rost: £35.000.

Fleets of Cadillacs will var

parry the 1,000 gursts and right bridesmaids A night club is being taken over for the recep tion

J

The cake? 14 is Just Bft.

THE CINDERELLA of Long Island has turned out to be

three-year-old

Taas he jameel the down ndard show and the J3K scholarship that goes with t

Peter Evans

doubled ovine when we from

and on

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term.nal."

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be air-curtshipped,

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microphone to talking

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A was the plea of Miss Cecil heget mustress & girls' ook, who found the battered ult shor

Faber dmrstep anch

ku Lip

awat Future hover bar food will pedistast

Cinders Bennett was the fifth alan 10 try on the lao-- and the Brst it Aited perfectly

We are surprised vir Cinders i'l

he gets the a girl buf scholarship just the same," said Ms Doris

JIMMY HOFFA, Teamsters (lorry drivers) Tross who

is facing

charges of fraud itle

My Manhattan barman put op "Drink a new sign last night: now and avok the Christmas

AVING been Dextremely

tival of "ftubby Amer

Kennedy has Cans, President started a daily dose of muscle building exercises in the White House Byrn.

But it is not because he feels hes getting too beefy to be a cribe Be is trying to strengthen has troubled back and get back misuse of union fonds. forgets to golt, which he has not played his cares this weekend for his sce May

daughter Barbara's wedding in

··(Londen Erpress Service)

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1961.

by Anne

Sharpley

I SAIL WITH THE MIGRANTS: PART TWO

THE STORY begins in Kingston. Jamaica, as the latest group of West Indian migrants to Britain board their ship. Travelling with them: Reporter Anne Sharpley, looking

A GIRL

A

SOON LEARNS -COLOUR

DOES MATTER

WE

VE had found a space on the crowded deck (for all that we were only 600 migrants instead of the usual 900 there never seemed chairs or space enough) and were watching the flying- fish zip over a sea that was advertisement blue and as flat as the eye could make it.

Ivonne. The girl I was shar- DA

cokin my

with. Was crocheting

table-mats that have bot her only means of urome ban 19 years. "Some- bly show me how to start an'

show me the rest. she would franquilly Angers flew.

Her joblessness in the prist than was and her fault. More 20 per cent of the labour forme Juniora is permanently out of work Besides. as the taxt eldest of a fammiy of 13, there was plenty to de at home.

for the side of the immigrant story that has not been told before. Two days out... and at least one of the West Indians is learning a lesson about the colour of skin...

проте

As we sat down Ivorine was There brusquely ordered out.

she were 100 many people in

and Ivorine dining-room, loveliest. but blackest, of us all. was told to go to the main dining

"Your thought must rest in Tourist rate of £ a passage Dear-white Then the the Lord and he will guide you

faces. Then a few black faces and protect you. Remember de

were either genuine Special kind and courteous w others Tourists or just lucky. and will be loved by all. Please do not let your

Aunt frud the symplest fault with you just do what you know phrases larr best. Your mother says to tell you that you neither

who or where, you knote poing but you must put the Lord in front and you 17:2481 Aun! to šte Ti milow you? us making any complain about Plenty to stry neat time ke good knight and good-by

Оте

but not farewell, May God

less you till we meet Mother and Father

ia

tshe

room

"But she is a Special Tourist. she has more right to stay here thom me, and, furthermore, you Part her here yesterday protested.

"Om." they 1016 Ivorite. "I'm going, 17, said. "No 1440 you must stay here." ther sand She must KOL Bun wit had airely gone.

Ivanne isad certainly fohowed hey Father's advice to read her Baie on the first tugin wah, in fact, never fead it during the fortnight we shred a embung and as we lay in our inunks, close thing and

heat as baking-lins, the only

* suglely antigabed by Jan. 1 asken her which ja. of 1 she was reading

It was Numbers Abe account of the Israelites wanderings in the Sinal after their departure frat E83 p An et choice for the West Indians are leav- ing their isiand now in much

annual quantities (52,000 last year as they were

the British Preu Have ships 225 years

rooked cracken. Three eggs buried In cassava flour for pan- tection. Some rofice beans. The Some maize. And some of the medicine called "busy" that brought Ere

cure-all for molaria. high blood pressure and poisoning. 1.70

"Bissy"

of

Bumerous

Her father is a carpenter and they live 98 miles from Ring- ston, at lister Spring, Trelaw ney. Her mother's sister, Autil Puls. who bail been in Jam- don for eight years, had pand fret passage and also sent he the yellow dress and coat she lead was Th her day as wel Cas Tow the long wooth & sacies stu

werd g

HOW. So proudit stespite the great bat

wan

"Ooly Bat it as very cold, vers pretty and nice," she said an iner sweet singsong.

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examples of African words retained in Jamaica Talk it the same as the West African Twi word "bise" and in fact the cola plant which was brought to Jamaica in the alave ships. "When I'se poison- ed, it clean about," Ivorine.

'The Good Lord'

مهد کود

said

slowed me her father's

her per print in It began.

istler MASSIVE

Take und gave

10

an

For vorine there Was con-

in this ac fort and guidance

ont of another people's up- rooting wod leaving then place wavey

The privileged

Fanch was called and.

shown been

we

ww {inte

The 34. before.

went along

The kitchen corridor, skirting the

dining-room. main

-the 147 Speri. Tourist Dining Room

damages cooler,

separate

b. the huge, crowded dining-

Joon

WE WELC served a meal whose mak course was tally astounding 11 consisted of one smal silee of corned beef, still frozen hard.

One sardane A large mound of badly steamed C A large mound of even worse steamed pulators. Bean

first course. Rice and potatoes inevitable vegetables. We were to learn, although the ment would speak in a grand way of other vegetables, which We seldom gol.

Irörine in her

"Go-a-town

hat and

yellow coat

ond dress sent to her

from England

by her aunt.

el she was eating her father's Rift of 2 chicken

They tell me to go in the

big dining-room.”

Did you show

"Yes,"

them your

When I returned to our cabin Nine was pressing pale powder beket?" < to her clearly carved face and duly skewering two un-

For Teorine it was the first blushing safely pus in an even.

balears

tome she had encountered dis- deerdded was She showing too much shoulder. tination because of her

elon. "Where were you?" 】 asked. -London Express ·Service).

or cabbage soup were the usual TOMORROW: Stowaways, saints and sinners

the

Red wine-free

(Aaat: "Salade Mimose" and "Sulude Caprice" frequently there on the menu. What were

like"

When we you salad-seidom--11

shredded cabbage with

of inmate.>

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EFX

PICASSOLATRY

If, like the Emperor PICASSO is 80.

Vespasian, he thinks he is becoming a

did get god, one can scarcely blame him for his was simply presumption. For years now the faithful. int have been insisting that he is not just an artist of genius but a being of messianic omnipotence, all-seeing, all-knowing, a mixture of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Father Divine.

The Chard course was always

different colours.

an e-cream-sane Bavour, but

the menu nearly always named

mythologica! "top"

ה

never appearori,

whirl:

fables and waiter service Where were you?'

though the food was the same).

"None listen Neusie" fluer The kitchen corridor afforded

US

What do you know

about lath's

fur her maily te

whappetising glimpses England! asked Ivonne.

"None RFFEL! በሞያ have goM/ Fo into the kitchens where grub- Experience Soine new Thought. bily tired chefs waved stup sonur new places and some new Jules at

cheery greet- and different kind

way you i

and the sineils were U must act the way the Good Lord of Heaven who has help nd you to land on the shores n England, would wish pour youthful days yanı

Sne would like to be a nurse, she explained

Her father had brought the ship a touching patrimony A Bible

A Teller of advice A

tops up-to-date automatics

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the evening there would br cake which was sometimes good. in fairness 1 ought to say that sometimes this dual diel

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Th Sure however, that Pleasso himself, while welcoining the golden offerings heaped be- tore his shrine, must regard the incense and mumbu-jumbo as an enormous joke.

" eulivened by chicken was unattractive that one little girl

Wine

was

Unlike the vast majority

AFF

the pious

cherished any old splinter from

I the pelvis of St James of Com-

of 14 who shurreri ne table re- beef, that the bread was al-his devotees, who cherish his Jused ever to

In table ways good, and reasonable red meanest scribbles us Come again and

free her mother had to

served

wit: Jake her food to the rubin. every meal, although West In gut such a fow appertunatey

dians seldom touch

wire. and an uppealing to you for

Here in the Special Tourist noticed. Tha! evening I was good and best behaviour and Dining Room 30 or so privileged asked to return to the Special Pestella, Picasso has a sense öbedience to all. You must not people ale. Fist, all the white Tourist Dining

Room and Jeane mut reading yout Bible fue were automatically put said I would, provided Ivorine each day in sahich you will find there irrespective of whether was allowed too. As she did much virtue in your travelling. They were paying the Spreiot me appear for dinner I assuin-

Je's an simple as pushing a single button on the

control panel if you photograph with the Agfa Optima III. This great 35, com camera is the most valuable of the Optima series. Forget about tricky calculations and just look for the green signal in the viewfinder when you push the "Maglo Koy" --

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THE CROWN

Адра

e

Cummings

humour.

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insulated from

He is also much of their ing because, mercifully for him, he is unable to read English. And it is in that language. Ur romething like it, that most Ave

Picassos are couched.

A HOMAGE

I have before me a majestic birthday homage*: costing £ï 7 and published by the Prime Minister (well, almost).

David Douglas Duncan,

Just as

well

he's

got a sense

of humour

This teden psom para remakes

This Inoks even more préten- tious in the text than does here, since Duncan spaces it out In lines of three or four words, as if it was vera bre Oc- castonally he even lapses Inte blank verse.

MADDENING

One of Picasso's models is described as "lost in a land where each day seemed-the (Compare Keats Lost

brillant photographer and a same." personal friend

of Picasso

imagine the language-barrier in a sort of Purgatory blind.") helped), has been fortunate But even more enough to obtain permissION

maddening from, to photograph all the ple- traie, grovelling Picassolatry.

the

be calls then Duncan's style is his pro-

tures which have hitherto lain hidden in..

What he implies is that heights the villa of La Califorble near Cannes. (These quile sufficient for the greatest are by no means all Picasso 19th-century French painter Picassos. There are plenty of Maestro. Why, he doesn't Even others in the artist's chateau of bother to spell Cezanne's name Vauvenargues and, I believe, in correctly, with an acute accent bank vaults).

over the "e."

Much of this heard, described by Duncan as "a bonanza, of art shrouded in mystery," is com- pletely unknown except to 2 few of the artist's Intimates.

Now at last the public can enjoy them in Duncan's impet cable photographs, 102 in full colour, and over 500 in black and white.

Alas,

VITALITY

...It Duncan's photagraphs endorsed this point, of view, his prose might be pardonable. But there is nothing among all these marvellous reproductions to sug- gest that Picasso is an artist on the same level as Cezanne?"

Ath's This book, as Belloc said

Yes, yes, I know that. Pleasgo" of Piccadilly Circus, provides an altogether different type noble spectacle for anyone who of artist, more varied, mora cannot read. For Duncan has inventive, and capable of ex- added a text as rhapsodicas pressing ideas and emotions. the Song of Songs and as cn which could never be contained barrassing 858 circular from in the classical idea of Moral Hearmament

· stil-ule and, portrait. The. "Who is this mast, he asks, witty, tragic, lyrical, nightmarigh, in this book are. N "who moved deep into the bills tender, ironic, etc., etc. Their of Cezanne, among the rolling variety and vitality dazzle. hills feeding the heights.nf

Mount Sainte-Victoire: within, But how could anyone but all! time-embattled walls of a for- incense-blinded sidenan claim fress-chateau called Vauvenar for them, the Olympian Tan ZUCE

deur of the Mont Sainte-Victoro

In the Courtauld collection Stor

"But then even as the ele ments emblazoned. the heavens the Card Players sidlen not Jönig vi with their welcome, his eyes ago from an exhibition of Ales already were seeking new horl en-Provence? poin zone, far beyond rainbow or the mere heights of Sainte- Victoire.!

SANCTUARY

Douglas Dufkami

London Ripiroir Eervice.

David

Garritt

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