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n

Another of the Brain's uni- versity playmates detected human weakness, When given a problem too difficult to solve, the Brain suliced. If prodded with even more difficult prob- lems, it shook with anger and blow a fuse.

*

*

Brain said, creaking into a chuir by the desk: "Since I was made I have been one of your constant readers."

"Thank you, Brain.”

the next line. What do you propose for the next line?"

"The next line to 'It makes

You think, don't it? Is usually,

What do?"

"Usually?"

Usually,"

"Yes, Brain. "Are you suggesting that my opening no is not originel?"

"I think you may have read it before somewhere, Drain."

A

tremor passed through Brain, shaking his Mitle valves. Half-way out of his chair,

Brain said: "Of course, if you don't want my help, I'll go."

your re-wiring, please think of "Please don't, Brain. With all something new."

New idea BRAIN took another cigarette, After a few moments, he suld: "I've got it. You want a cat. A column cat."

"Yes, Brain."

"It's usually done by an inter- change of letters."

"Usunily?"

Brain's valves trembled as he rose half-way out of his chair again.

Sorry, Brain. Full apologies.

Please sit down and think of something else.".

New angle

MOLLIFIED, Brain leaned back, took a third cigarette

sently, Brain sold: and crossed his iron legs.rette

The

| MY SIDE OF LIFE

CHAPMAN

PINCHER Columu

HE white

capped Boogie-woogle, bebop, and nll

dairymaid peered into Jungle Jives arousing musculor tho Cheddar cheese movement are barred.

vat and shook her hend

again. She had added an extra dose of "starter"—the

Swallow,"swallow....

culture of special germa. SEE how many oum- mers make a swallow's life which sour the milk and has been the latest study of

give the cheese its flavour→ Oxford ornithologist Dr DAVID and still it would not work. LACK. His answer - rarely

more than two.

The boss, with 20 years of Nestling swallows were fitted cheese-making behind him, was with light-weight numbered leg- Just as baffed-especially when bangles. Then reports on those the next batch went the same later picked up dead at homo way. Rubbing his stubbly chin and abroad were analysed. he tried to track down the trouble for the fifth time.

On its first New Year's Day, when it is about five months old, British-born swallow's expec- The starter was O.K. The tation of life is little more than milk was fresh from the farm's one year the lowest for any own cows. True, Dinah and bird yet studled, Latit reports. Bluebell had been aff colour, but

the vet bad cleared up thetr complaint with penicillin..

*

PENICILLINI That was the

Hello, twins

BEING an identical twin fa not always fun. Take 20- year-old. ANNE, for instance.

The trouble started when twin answer! Some of the pentelllin sister DETTY began to show in- must have passed into the milk, ferest in boys Anne became With the world's most powerful shaky, then, hystericat, and even- germ-lller around no wonder tually so paralysed that she had the starter germs could not get to spend two years in a hospital' going.

bed. When doctors could · find nothing organically wrong they Scientists have since confirmed sent her home to hobble about sparrow will be cheeky, the boss's smart deducilon. With on sticks for: eight more years. the use of penicillin on dairy farms spreading rapidly, re- It was the odd fact that Anne search safeguard our already had cropped her hair after meagre home-made cheese sup- Betty found. boy-friends that piles is on top priority.

convinced psychologist JOHN HAMILTON PATERSON that the trouble was purely nervous.

"I was just about to suggest a sparrow before you interrup ted me. I think you will agres that a sparrow suggests cheek.

arrogance. cockinet

cocky, even rude. Instead of answer ing back, his wife will always be in tears. I think that would be rather amusinga sparrow I fears."

reverse

"Very amusing, Brain." "Then you could portray the of the situation, the dominant wife and the docile husband. What is it they call a man of that type? Don't tell me. I shall get it in a minute."

"Shall remind you, Brain?". "Yes. Remind me." "A worm?"

Well,

Reading University's Professor ERIC CROSSLEY is looking into two likely answers

2

To add a penicillin-destroy- ing ferment to the milk.

To develop new types of starter germs resistant to the drug.

Is that hot blast on my neck the indignant breath of that science-baiting cheese connois. seur Beachcomber?

Ignorance is bliss

"OPERA while we operate" is the latest prescription of a big London surgeons at

Resentment and self-pity flist expressed themselves in this pathetic effort to win back her sister's full-time friendship. Then they rooted deeper into the mind with results that made her

a chronic invalid.

Paterson has proved the truth of his diagnosis in the most convincing way. After psycho- at London's cat treatment

Anno National Hospital. walking again.

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"Of course. A worm. I think that fixes you for this! week. I shall look forward to reading it. I think I told you

"You must be, Brain." am a constant reader?"

"And here's a new idea for "While you've been Idly dood- the following week. Politicians all over the country are wonder- with your · pencil I've thought of an entirely -new ing how the non-party prople leed for will vote at the General Elce- angle. What you reader interest is something tion. They call them the Float- the readers can easily recognise in ing Vole. Why not do same- not in thing about a typical Floating neighbours, but

That's a new idea, isn't themselves. A domestle scene. Vole?

it?" A selfish husband and a long- suffering wife. You might do it

"It was a new idea last week, with earphones tuned in 10 Some cat-caterers who put up- Wit with human beings, though

sharp click. selected BBC items, Besides pets during holiday provide bungalows" with animals are an easier medium.

clink, the surgeons believe that ample room for exercise. But must be a native bird, equally in Brain went out. Brain had sweet rausle soothes the patient's others have found the tempin-

to the townsman and blown a fuse. familiar

mind sufficiently to cut down tion of a guinea per week per the countryman."

cat too strong. post-operative shock. "A sparrow?"

their

Brain."

There was

DIKALET CHRIS- TOPITER PETO, M.P., who put forward the Pot Animals: Bill to improve housing condi- hospital.

tions in pet shops, 1 recommend Palients undergoing serious an inquiry into the cat-boarding

for which local business. surgery anaesthesia Is safest are provided

"I suppose you've read that I Ing with y' or 'le' suggesting Or birds. If you do birds it Something tinkled. The lights drowning the scalpel's chilling elaborate

may write sonneis one day?"

"Yes, Brain,"

"I may write books, too. plays."

And

"Of course."

it in

"I would like to sco electric letters, A new comedy

Brain."

by

So would 1, Brain.".

"You want a female cat and a good name for it. A homely, common name, preferably end- something amali and lovable with a touch of devilment and character. Belty? No, Lizzie? No."

"Lottie?"

"I was just about to say Lottle. But you got it out be- „fore...me. Lottie's the...znine. Then you want Borne other cals to play up the International situation.

cals. Malo

An American cat and a Russian cat. of Capitalium versus Communism.

See what I mean?"

"In which case I thought I might start on something cosy, like a newspaper column."

Brain rose and leaned over the

desk, smciling strongly machine oil

"Done much today?"

"Nothing. Brain.”

J

"Been through the papers?"

"All of them!”

"Can't find a suitable subject

one."

to write about?"

"Not

"Brain fag. I expect. That's

"Yes, Brain."

"Now a name for the Ameri- can cat. An easily recognisable place name,

Chicago, Washing-

ton, New York..

"Manboitan?"

It gets tired. When I'm not something. · What Are cats

feeling too bright they re-wire

me and slip in a couple of new valves. I was re-wired only this morning."

C.V.R.

THE

--(Londen Express Service)

Thompson Reports

The American Scene

famous for doing? Staying out to Houston, the big city. on tiles? Drinking milk?””

"Catching

Mouser?"

small-town

ם on

now

best

In their basements and attles. crucia hutches

packed. celling-high.

Dro

Tulip timo

THE DEST way to force a lullp buib la to grow it under an

electric bulb. Dutch

| scientists claim.

Tulips grown under electric: con-lamps glowing nine hours a day

on earlier than those from a stan-- side, are bigger, stronger, and bloom. stj dard, greenhouse, ¡ And, they

work out much cheaper.

of political NEW YORK. territory, are trying to doll him. an overload

It la "some of the LONE RANGER Every time he parks, bis car siderations." On the 'fying

they dine him..

carth." rides again out Texas

COMMENT by Mrs Leigh Col- way. Each evening, as the

tem- IF A WIFE will not kiss hei "The very thing I was going coyotes, start to howl, he

vin, leading US.

Having artificial light dis-- husband-more than twice perance crusader, the worst of a brain like yours. to say. Manhattan." Manhattan comes out of the horizon in shampoo with a beer base: "Nop year it is ground for marriage penses with the need for glosa. according to a So the hothouse can be thickly objection, as long as it is used annulment,

insulated to prevent the heavy ruling in the New Jersey couris, externally,"

heat losses which push up the mice. Manhattan He is a

sheriff. Dale Richardson, 27-year-old OR BRIDES: Most shops in PROADWAY is laughing at orthodox grower's fuel bill. "On the tip of my tongue, if ex-G. I, who wears the tradi-, the U.S. offer a replica of the Bank of England for

This way, say the scientists, novelist Graham hat and all Rita Hayworth's wedding gown. refusing I may use that expression. Don't tional ten-gallon

Average cost is six guineas, Greene enough dollars to come fuel plus light costs far less than keeping glass greenhouse forget I thought of it first even the other paraphernalia.

with carlwheel hat to match over and dramatise one of his

warm. And it frees the growers: if you said it first."

But Dale rides no spirited

novels. The Bank would not for four guineas,

from weather worries. "O.K., Brain."

gamble that the play would "Now I must think of a name stallion. He prefers his silver: "It feels fine. Like a child for the Russian cat. Something

to take in more than the £350 NGUMENT, painted car.

presented seeing the world's beauty and with an off or a 'sky'

Congress by General Omar the trip would cost.. .or a It started when Dauntless Likovitch at the end of it. What's Dale came to the Big City to rise in military pay: It would terror for the first time.

Bradley for a £791/ million the first glimpse of green field, another name for a cat? Pussy, arrest a the first peep at a wild flower, pussy, puss..! the first sight of a storm at sea. I'm full

New world

"How does it feel to be re-

wired, Brain?"

of new ideas. Take this down, will you?"

"Certainly, Brain."

"Car sufferin archbishops," "Yea, Bruin Got that?"

said the

taken in 0,362,500 from their known Stona. Agents

Going, going is And Rodgers and Hammer-

KAMARUDENDNESS. bad man from bis

seems to be slowly getting be- stein, the company which plan- Itown. He found gambling in cost only £20 million

ned to produce the play, have scarcer... Nearly 50 Mog

rest would come "Yes. Mog. Mogoff. Mogo-back with a baseball bat.

Houston. Next night, he came cause the

back in income-tax.

last two productions ("Oklaho- | were made, for left-handed, use vitch."

of "Mogsky?"

With that bat or with his big JOB VACANT: Any young mal" and "Canousel"), and ex- compared with 25 percent. "Yes. Mogsky." I was just fists he has broken up every willing to learn is promised the again from

man who can fight and in pect to make nearly as much later Bronze Age Onds, archaeo

"South Pacifle," Jogists report. coming to that. Well, I've given joint in the town.

their current show. you the names. All you have to

world's heavy-weight title and

Current Incidence of "cack" do now is work up a rivalry

it by They have tried to double- the fortune that goes with makes you think, don't it? between the American and Rus cross him, Enemies produced a America's top sports eritles to- STRAW FOLLS show that New handers is koss than ten percent. That will be the full, opening stan ents, not only for tho recording-machine which was day. They said the champion Franklin D. Roosevelt Jun,- as iine. I think you will agree it favours of the English cat Lottie, supposed to have taken down ship light between Joe Walcot their next mayor. is a startling line, particularly, but also about the contending his promise to one of the gam. and Ezzard Charles was the for any archbishop who might economic

off for 100,000 lullest ever and showed systems of their blers to "lay pick up the paper. It may respective countries, which is dollars,” shock a few readers, but most thre No. I headache of today.

Cor sufferin archbishops, I

road to the

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FIVE SECOND QUIZ: What

great medical, discovery is to identity Red Grange: responsible for the fact that will be amused by its novelty. Of course, I haven't thought of Said the Lone Rangers "It's a TAKE-OFF: British aviation, legendary football Jarostwa Furops has been rid of plague says Gill Wilson, U.S. ox-studente at. Wichita University, for nearly 300 years? ANSWER: Even the focal sheriffs, an- pert who is studying the effects Zoneos, answered-"a

Soap. subver- noyed by his intrusion into their of nationalisation, "nies with zive furm element,”...

-(London Express Service)

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