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SPARE MOMENTS PAGE

NEW

BOOKS

by

JAMES AGATE

"Reading I've Liked." A Proze Anthology Selected by Clifton

Fadiman.

(Ham!alı Hamilton, 158.)

PERHAPS it is just as well that in a time when all the books one wants to read are out of print there should be books about books. All the same, 360 pages is a lot of paper. And isn't onthologising rather an easy way of making money? Isn't it something akin to picking other people's brains? As the compiler of two anthologies I ought to know a bit about it.

WIEEK-END WIT

WHEN TO WORRY,

A woman should not worry when her husband Is seen with another woman. It's when they're not seen that she should begin to worry,

FIRST TIME ROUND "Darling," he sighed, taking her hand in hii, "do you remember when we met in the revolving door at ine bank?"

That wasn't the first time we met,"

"Oh, no. But it was when we Best started going round together, wasn't it?"

HIS WORRY

"My father-in-law is hot on my trali. He saw me dancing with a blonde."

"Is he out for your blood?" "No--my blonde."

DISAPPOINTMENT'

The old maid work her sister up

in the middle of the ulght.

"I think I can hear a mouse under the bed." she whispered.

"Aren't you afraid it's a man?"- "No, I'm afraid it's a mouse."

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DO IT YOURSELF

The naval officer was sitting on couch with his French girl friend in a draughty roum.

the

"Je t'adore," he whispered softly. "Don't be lazy. Shut it yourself, replied the mademoiselle,

LOST CONTROL

"Did you say you knew of a girl who lost her job because of stomach trouble?"

"Yes, she was an oriental dancer and lost control_of__it.”___

¡~nd five Allies out at training, and Mr F.. W. Dennis, with ning mares from his Haverholme Slúd In and six horses in train- Ing. Including Hal- o'the Wynd, very useful two-year-old. Among the biggest bellars at the Entries or confirmations are ala. latest Newmarket sales of British ready being received from France

woro Bir for

flut next season'a bloodstock in December

races In Malcolm McAlpine, who offered his Britain, among them M. Ferrand three-year-old Croupier, the four-Schmitt, whose for ovain will run year-old Concentration, eight mares in the Ascot Gold Cup.

There's the wonderful love of a

beautiful mald,

And the love of a staunch, true

man,

And the love of a babe that's)

unofrald,

These exist since Time began; But the acme of love..

The love of loves,

Even greater than that of

mother,

Is the tender, infinite, passionate

love,

Of one dead-drunk for another.

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Are You Sure?

Answers on Page 5.

1. What should " football weigh?

2. From which well-known songs do these extracts como:- (a) We've broad beans and

onions;

(b) Have a banana.

3. What is a maiden horse?

4. What does the Tass Agency

dot

6. If you had

bottle of mu

would you ellars,

(a) drink it;

(b) spread it on your salad; (e) stick labels on. a trunk

with

t; lubricate pistons with it. 6. What is (a) a'maelstrom; "(b) marram; (0)' a marilaspike; (d) a maraboni? -

(d)

7. Name of aulber, please:-- The Devil, having nothing else

to do,

Went off to

Poltagrue.

tempt my Lady

Mu Lady, tempted by a pri-

vate whim,

To his extreme

tempted him.

annoyance,

6. Why is a steeplechase so: called?

D. One of these nocteiten Is Actitious whicht

(a) The James Mason Fan

Club; JA

(b) The, Decimal Association; (e) The Anti-Insurance

(d) The Apostleship of the

Sea,

10. A lotsy old car is somer finies nicknamed Boanerges. Where does this далар Dome from?

Well, here we are, all_sorts_of | SCIENCE TRENDS: authors. Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos. Frank Moore Colby, Vir ginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, John Steinbeck. Jules Romains, A. E. Coppard, Max Beerbohm, Ernest Hemingway, and lots of others.

Each section has a witty but not always wiso introducilon. About Mr Somerset Maughan Mr Fadiman writes:

ME

BIGGER FRUIT

"When he prepares tripe, he seed of a plant is made ep of innumerable tiny cells. And practically puts a label on it stating its high, percentage of inside each cell is n "nucleus." And adulteration. I find this virtue. Inside each nucleus are. "chromosom- It makes his work to much more agreeable than the novels, for " example, of Mr Charles Morgan, which are not only trips but are rendered doubly unpalatable by the fact that Mr Morgan doesn't seem to know it."

appearing-under the micro- scope-ns tiny rods.

These are the life study of Dr. C. At Merton D. Darlington, F.R.S.. Park, near Wimbledon, ho commanda

dissent. Our Charles writes anything but tripe. If I were forced a research team whose work has to use a culinary metaphor I should changed the breeding of flowers and any not iripe but the funeral baked fruits from a traditional art to an ments served up the sorrowing

of 'n schoolmaster--became relatives of a deceased duke. Mr exact science. Cyril Dean Darlington Fadiman, having an eye for humour, aon

ken fting Lardner

director of the famous Jolin Innes at the ago Horticultural Institution

to

"For proof I suggest a re-reading of "The Love Nest, which I have

of 35. The John Innes'team worked selected as a typical Lardner story. Passion, Bentment, Cenerosity, out the inter-plantings of cherries, sympathy, and humour are barred plums, apples and pears that are now leaving

only the tour components standard fruit-growing practice. Most of comic-strip marital comedy:

of the

contentiousness, hen-pecking, gold- of our cultivated fruit trees are self- digging, and that peculiar, hopeless sterile. An apple orchard with trees irony of the American male which all of one varicly-Cox's Orange for Lardner is his chief defence Pippins, for example would be a against the onslaughts

fallure. The blossom must be fertil- lemale," Here is a little bit of a story ised by pollen from other breeds. which places the characters in their A million pollination. experiments exact,social and educational environ- by Darlington's workers have pro ment:-

"Is this really such wonderful Bourbon? I think I'll just take sip of it and see what i's like. It can't hurt me if it's so good. Do you think so Mr Bartlett?

"I don't believe so." "Well, then, I'm going to taste It, and if it hurts me It's your fault."

many

garden

duced plans for mixed plantings that havo increased yłekts by 20 per cent, The scientists have discovered that fruits have more chromosomes than their wild ances. tors--twice, three times, even eight times no many. This inercase causes the new variety to be bigger and hardler. Sometimes it can occur

Celia poured a whisky glass two- thirds full and drained it at a gulp.

"It is good, isn't it?' she said, spontaneously, *Of course I'm not much of a judge,

10 don't care for whisky and Lou- won't let mo drink it.

But he's

raved so about this Bourbon that

Belf-Fertile

in Essex not long ago, one branch

I did want to see what it was like of a pear tree began to bear ter You won't tell on me, will you, Mr Burtlott?"

"Not 11"

"I wonder how it would be in a high-ball. Let's you and I just

Gay:

fruit than the rest.

Examination

showed that its cells had 68 chromo- somes as against 34 in the rest of the tree. From that single branch a new have one. Don't we know the people who giant variety of pear has been de "Let's you and I go to the veloped. This is only one of many cinema?" I have a name for them, instances. Nowadays the scientists I them the "Between you and

do not wait for these changes to hap- They have de would never say, "Between and the pen accidentally. gatepost. Well, it's a ruin, illiterate veloped artificial ways of affecting world and I suppose always will be, the chromosome content of the cells.

A good book, and plenty for the money. In the meantime, I have By exposing the flower-buds of fruit started an anthology entitled: trees to powerful "Reading I Haven't. Liked,"

these And

sume

people

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"Every Good Deed." by Dorothy Whipple.

(John Murray, 5s.)

X-rays changes occur in the chromosomes, and the old "self-sterile" varieties become "self-fertile." By breeding from these strains the research workers producing trees that will set

is a charming quiet little tale are

whose opening. I find irresistible: { huge yields of fruit from their own

"The Miss Tophams lived tran-pollen.

quilly at The Willows, a pleasant

house left to them with an ade-

quate income by their parents.

With n drug called colchicino-

Miss Susan took no part in public an extract of the autumn crocus→→ affairs. She managed the house the John Innes workers are learning and had a great admiration for to achieve in three or our senis, Emlly, her senior by two years, because she sat on committees," But then I have never read a word by Mrs Whipple that I did not find enchanting.

plant developments that would_take! thousands of years by natural se lection and chance...

Darlington's team believe our stocks And I should like to pay tribute of fruit trees will be radically chang to an author who, having said in a hundred and two pages all she has ed within 20 years.

to say, stops.

-CHAPMAN FINCHER.

According To Culbertson

North, dealer,

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

North-South vulnerable.

NORTH

An unlucky guess by a defender looked like a safe. cxlt-his re- gave South his chance in to-day's maining trump. for Luckily

North-South, the deal.

declacer was able to win this in dummy with the nine. Now, when a low heart was led from the king, East was in the come dilemma as before he could not know whether to put up the heart ace against the possible queen In the closed hand, or to duck on the premise that South was void of hearts. The latter possibility was certainly not far- fetched-indeed, South's leap to six spades seemed to indicate a heart vold and an eight-card solid spade suit.

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It was a difficult position and East guessed wrong. He ducked, and the blank queen won, South then ran off four trumps and cashed the dia- mand ace. This left dummy with king-small of hearts and the originat threo clubs. East kept the ace-jack of hearts and three clubs. Now South enshed another trump, dis- carding the low club from dummy. East was fixed! Actually, ho let go a heart; whereupon South, led a club, ruffed away the heart ace, and could discard on the heart king.

West duly Interpreted East's double us a call for a diamond lead, and East's ruff gave the defence a gobd

If East had discarded another club, start. East, however, was afraid to South would have cashed the aco lay down the heart aco-South and king, ruffed a heart and taken might ruff and later discard on the the fulfiling trick with the club heart kingao he selected what jack."

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Children's Corner

Conducted by Uncle Peter

WHY HAVE WE TWO EYES?'Į

When you look at a scene, your eyes each set, slightly different views which are mysteriously combined by the brain into one picture. This "double vision" enables us to see things in three dimensions -length, breadth and depth- Instead of merely two dimen- afons like a common camera,

If you look at a bottle with your left eye closed, the label will nhow you that you see more of the right side of the bottle. When the right eye is shut, you see more of the left side. By using both eyes ut once an impression of solidity is obtained.

"Rupert and Ninky-I

"I'm'getting tired of these shabby old Bowered curtains," says Mirs. Bear one day, Daddy has bought me this bright new cloth, so we'll ́have a change.** She gets very busy and soon Rupert is helping her to take the old ones down and put up fresh ones. "This is grand." says the little bear. "It makes the room twice as bright.** Then he is quiet and thoughtful for a moment, "Those old curtains still look good and strong,” he mays. “What are you going to do with them? ***

ALL RIGHTS heskayep.

A good illustration of this is to take two photographs of the same scene with a double camera, ane having its lenses set apart like our eyes. Place the pictures side by side in apparatus which allows you to look at the left picture with the left eye, and the right picture with the right eye, and you will see the objects photo- graphed standing out in relief. FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN THE GREAT packed more into his 33 years of life than most men could pack into 300 years. The son of Philip

His death was the result of a of Macedon, his military genlis

the hearts of chill caught while swimming. struck terror into his focs. With stunning sudden- He was born in 338 BC and ness, his army would strike. And died 323 BC.

ALEXANDER

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Once, when advised to attack the Persian king at dark, so that not nee the his troops would superior number of the Persians, Alexander replied: "I will not steal a victory."

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