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THE QUIZ CRAZE AT ITS CRAZIEST

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by C. V. R. THOMPSON

New York. name is in an Ameri- tolephone book, Just because of that 1 may soon be spending a week in the Shakespeare Country, all expenses paid.

And that is not all. Here are some of the additional things I may got because my name appears alongside Stamford 2120:

One day a week at the Waldorf in New York; seeing all the theatres and night clubs I can stand: a gold watch: a £250 savings certificale: » Neal kita chen complete with fridity. stove, automatic dish-washer and washing machine; a £750 diamond ring; return trip across the Atlantic by DAC,

0"

THE WORDS

course.

I do have to do just a little more than pay my telephone bill. I must stay at home and listen to the radio.

did not know. And I felt a hunch I would get the next call. And then my phone, rang. I won ull rendy to identify the first tune--

Long Ago. But just as I was blurting it out a voice told me he could not deliver the chickens I

had ordered till next week. By the time I gol back to the radio a girl in San Francisco had won and they were reading out what she would get.

new

Now they have got n mystery melody. I think it is an obscure English Christmas caroj. irid do not know its name yet, Nor duen nnyone else. And that means the prize list will go up. another £1,600 next week.

But I am confident that in time I will get it. For I have found out the trick in this game. You just listen to Walter Win- chell, broadcast follows "Stop

columnist, whose Music.

the

tho

To keep us ni stening to his prattle about the coming wor with Russia and the new babies which are due along Broadway. he gives us a broad hint.

And he has already told us that the new mystery meiorly la based on the chimen of a famous And as the American radio English cathedral. White 1 am permits advertising, and as radio awaiting more clues I've got advertising at the moment con- "Sing It Again" to worry about. This. programme. may be callingt

sists of three girls breakline any day now, ton. And their "Hamlet" with Jingle. "It' stelicious, yum

1's prize list is even better yum yum. delightful, order some," I am not "Stop the Music."

Bare If it is nti worth it.

But, unless I um greedy. I need listen to only one pr framme. It is called, "Stop the Musle." It tests but one hour, and its two advertising sponsors art a lucky combination of elgarette firm and a coughidrop manufacturer.

They do not have

than

mystery

mavlody. They have a mystery voice. They play a record of this fellow reciting riddle which is supposed to tell us who he is.

This is it: "Georgia, Georgia. been thinking I hear some- thing in the air. Red lights, green lights. keep ablinking

The seas ¡Cross

and I'll

A crooner sings, let us say, there."

But every "Stormy Weather."

THE WORRY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1949.

GILES GOES DOWN IN THE WOODS TODAY' T TO SEND HIS FAMOUS FAMILY OFF FOR EASTER

'Nice Easter hike this is going to be-Vera come without her axbirins and Bather worrying in case the office gets to hear he wore shorts.”

-(London Express Sarvize),

He's a glutton, a spendthrift

(and he has gout!)

1 some more.

horse

different

It also uses it to confuse its rel ran up the man as if he was adversary In argument. It does a tree and set on his head chat-this by curling the fall over the top of its hend and poking it tering deflance.

into the other chap's mouth. It

started

to eat an eighteenth- can't show them the door be this the clever scientists work- century lead statue in a garden cause there isn't one, so they ed out that squirrels don' like at Biggleswade, and the gar- have to be turned out by force, mountalas as much as they do dener wrote Lo The Times Squirrels are monogamous, but trees.

in some years there's a surplus

other It's true they are niways hid- the weather gets cold and it is about it.

There is probably no published a pic of males, and then you may see animal in the world that uses The paper to grow UST for five minutes ing things away in safe places, time

let's forget about Ber- but like dogs and a good many prish my children could do the ture of the statue's right foot a female being chased all over its tail for so many

how the toes had been the forest by half a dozen purposes. It employs, it as a people we know they can never kame. lin and the inter- remember

Saway. "Pure

devil bachelors all chaltering at once. parachute afterwards where

when it jumps, a Squirrels are supposed to be meni,' satd The Times. But J

unll when it occasionally swima, bnational situation. Let's go they put them.

Although they prefer woods, a rudder when it runs, and a nind about nuts, but nattıralisis don't know. It might have away to the country and

Squirrels don't mind when who have

studied their tastes been the dawn of artistic taste, squirrels sometimes go for long blanket when it sleeps. talk about squirrels.

walks in the open country. A they And their hair turning say there are many things they time he comes to the wards

Iglilander met one once in the white and failing out, because like better, such as leaf buds. "utormy weather he sings

TO Some people don't seem to

middle of a Scottish moor. that is a sign of summer. The green shoots, young bark and by BERNARD "lah-di-dah." When my tele- BY methods I do not care to like squirrels, They say they time to start worrying is when acorns.

escape from "his dog the squirḥ phone rings I am supposed to reveal, I have discovered damage trees and eat birds' it grows thick and dark. A$ tell them

WICKSTEED fah-di-lah his what

arst name is Charles eggs. Not being a forester with on

squirrel said to another. They that his father is a Mason, and an axe to grind nor a bird with "You know

kute

chestnuts stands for.

my dear, I think but adore mushrooms, and I suspect he Is an American n nestful of eggs, I enjoy meet winter is on the way. I found never have to worry .about airman (not Lindbergh), Buting them and discussing their

Every squirrel has at least The terrified Highlander, would be fun if M.P.8 could do a black hair in my tall

this testing them by peeling or put three homes. He uses one as a I am not ready for "Sing problems.

who had never seen a squirrel the same. morning."

ting sixpence in the trying nursery for the family, and before, described it afterwards Again" to ring me yet.

In the winter squirrels don't toad-stools Winchell

pan because

that goes to the others for a little as a red thing wi horns that get out of bed unless they want would kill you and me don't

peace, gramme.

to. On a nice day they may swore horribly." They are called dreys or

go out, but if it's beastly they hurt a squirrel at all.

Anv they haven't

Some years ago two French Just turn over and go to sleep drugs, and They also like the seeds from doors. You Just barge ar cones, and in Norfolk Keolo

in seientists

squirrel into agala. put a of those old-fashioned

At Tostock, in Suffolk, an gists have dug up fossil coner through the wall, which closes one

cages like a wheel and took it enterprising squirrel built one with the tooth marks of squir- gain behind you

The young ones are blind, to the top of Mont Blanc.

of its homes in the church rets still showing. They were and just before they arrive the

tower. This enabled it to hear gnawed before becoming fossils, mother pulls off her own fur In a forest at sea level the

the church service without get- of course.

the squirrel made the wheel re- Though

home so comfortable that when volvo 6.500 times a day, but on ting up just as if it had a bed- they grow up the children don't, the top of Mont Blanc it made side radia set.

B00 The parents only

EVEN IF I

THE MELODY

am wrong I will get four extra-thick blankets for my trouble. But if I am right I get a chance to identify what is called the "mystery melody."

It seemed ensy the first time I listened. The mystery melody was that spirited little mumber they play on one of the newsreels while the cameras spell out "The Eyes and Ears of the World. And I knew# its name, too.

But the first six people called on the telephone that night still

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boycotts that There are plenty of but squirrels get gout, and any others for me to work on, but creature which can get that is they are not really worth it-a something more than

mere is to run round with bare feet rodent. It clearly has charnell the summer, and then grow mere £500 worth of prizes.

ter. They get it through living their own socks in the winter, too well in parks where well- They also grow gloves and meaning people overfeed them muffs.

The great nyth about squir rols is that they

With all are thrifty.

the tree climbing Their pictures are even used to they do the gloves and socks

savings advertise

banks. wear out by the spring,

ent Actually they can't save any small boys' trousern. So they stone, they appear to like chew better than the rest of us, play around without any until ing lead. A grey squirrel once

There is just one point which does rather worry me. Why does the country which makes all this possible also have to be the one with the greatest number of telephone subscribers in the world-one out of every four of its total population?

-London Express Service).

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can't they

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want

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