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The first new one out of Germany

NOTE this stamp well. It marks the rebirth of Germany

The new hope to millions there.

It is the Araś stamp larued by the new West German Republle, which formed Its Government recently..

The sun shines in the stamp on mon making girders and building houses and on a childern's maypole.

It symbolises the efforis of a people who have already managed to get the production of Important things like coal and steel nearly back to pre-war level.

This year, for the first time since the war, many Britons have had a holiday in Germany.

Face-value: 10 pfennigs (about 1d.); perforation: 14 by 14.

COLD-STORAGE TRANSFUSION

By the Doctor

BLOOD transfusion technique has changed a great

dical. It is very different now from what it was before the war.

han

Before the war it was necessary to have an indi vidual of the correct blood group present, take the blood and give it to the patient, all in a matter of a few hours,

Now blood of known groups-

transfusion replacement bottles at freezing | 12 is stored in point. So long as it is used with been given to a girl of 12. But nt such ages it is very uncom- in three weeks of taking, trans-

Blood is removed at ap-} matter of in- fusion is merely n

vein, proximately the same role as it neede into Berting o connecting it to bottle, and

is given. Towing blood

the

to now

#

at the

rate of sixty drops a minute.

It wan in

1902

steiner discovered

that Land. that there

were four different groups of blood. The importance of these lies in the fact that should a

blood from the

ретвот receive

wrong group

the red ceka are

rapidly destroyed. This results in pripitations, breathlesspESA, shivering,

the chest, palos in

kidney trouble and sometimes

cles th

More recently

called

Rh

has been

another furior

found. of people

and are Rh

Eighly-four percent

have this factor

positive; the remainder are Rh negalive.

This is of particular signin

cance where

mother hos n

cerned,

childbirth

In con-

Rh

For it a Rh negative child by

positive father it may cause pro-

duction of u substance

blood

in the

fotel

new-

to a giving rise Jaundice disease born

of the

But recenty a new treatment has been discovered called "re- placement transfusion."

Four Dutch doctors have just described their work le connee-

this diccasc tion with

new-born

They took

of the all the

blood away from children cut-

it

fering from and replaced it

the correct Rh Mortality rate dropped

with blood of group.

mgnificantly.

Replacement transfusion

diso

in those

mon.

~(London Express Service)

BAB and FLOUNDER mby WALTER

T

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949.

Father runs the family

like a factory

NEW BOOKS

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

Thing

lawyer, member of the Vienna

'opera claque and violinist on a linor, who has coasted along life's lunate fringe with his cyca wide open.

for the New Yorker,

Joseph Wechaberg was born in Ciecho-Slovakia Lest home at an early epe to as the world da musician or French liner. FILE Arat novel Looking For A Dlug- bird was based on his experiences. to whoop about. But, naturalieed American, he ves In Hollywood and writer regularly Frank . Glibreth and Ernestine when it is all over, one feels Cubreik Carey write about their that even a devil weary of ill- own family which is very large,

not Their father, used to say that chit doing would

be content 4ren come "cheaper by the dozen." with shutting down the Liver- Their mother, who is 78, has been pool Cotton Exchange and rub- voted woman-of-the-year by the

bing his hands gleefully over American Woman's Association,

the 40-hour week. SON OF THE MORNING. By Gilbert Frankau. MacDonald. 12s. 6d. 432

CHEAPER BY THE about this book, in case you like Guard really gives him some-

DOZEN. By Frank B, that kind of thing. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Hoine- mann. 81. 6d. 240 pages. HIS is it. No need to go any further. Some time between now and next spring you will find yourself reading Cheaper By The Dozen. Might as well get it over.

T

But why you say) is it so certain

book will that this force itself on me in the next few months? Becauso well, just think of Life With Father, its qualities, the factors that made

so immensely popular.

A generoun measure of those qualities are renewed in cheaper By The Dozen.

Add

pages.

VICHOLAS, Youngest of the

Ave

Mondragon brothers and Gilbert Frankau's 'hero," appears

to be simply a good- looking

· of member young Parliament who marries a rich wife and is inordinately success- ful on the Stock Exchange.

R

foo much ilme

BRAT

FARRAR. By

Josephine Tey, Davies, 91. pagos.

Peter Gd. 279

TTENTION of customers is hereby drawn to this well- exciting and Just

No. Nicholas really does not measure up to the job. He is altogether too complacent. Re

far spenda brooding over politics, He made,

get out and corrupt Plausible story.

Simon Ashby is about ought to peuple more,

come into the family fortuna

A laży devil? It is too much on his coming-of-age, when of a good thing.

►

to

Frank #Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Candy

turns up bearing From Here & There:

young man

likenessa to him An uncanny

to be his elder and and claiming was thvite

Patrick, supposedly travelled drowned by sulcide years de-

N

to fore.

*Clibert Frankau, pour novelist is 65 years old. Fle educated di Elon, Joinest

business, father ciper

and brought round the world write tohen he was 28, 2 in two wars, folring up in the last one when he 1068 55. Fits mother that Frank Danby, a popular Vic torian novelist, Pamela Frankou ta

his daughter.

ty.

pages.

712

*

YT сопоста по

enormous cat.

of to be exact,

visita Junatle When he Inmily, 12 noisy, healthy, hungry children asylum a harmless patient be with red hair. Nothing is

violent, BO comes uncontrollably

SUBSTANTIAL, sebolarly popular as an overcrowded nur- shoultng: "Vade retro, Sathanas,

life of D. sery, in sumebody else's house,

And Nicholas has a passion for readable

It is also an admir. sigo of Rossetti, eating skate, a nure

finde- sturdy

of those affectionate diabolic possession as everyone uble pleture

minded mother and an eccentric father, knows,

young men, the Pre- Didn't you? u father, a legt-pulling card of

St it is a surprise to dis- Raphneltes, to whom a beauti- ful woman won o "stunner" And there you have all that is

brother (as his eldest required-fun, ventiment, ex-

Mondragon. Ferdinand

S.J., and "stunners" were all fair sprinkling does) that Nicholas is the very keralion, a of euck-eyed adventure.

devil Old Nick in person.

Father,

whom it al round revolves, is an expert bi selen- who tine factory management

home on Futis bis lines,

up-to-date

F%

A piercing whistle known the assembly enll" gathers the family at lines of crisis.

In the bath-roons are work and process charts which encl child must initial offer brush- int his teeth etc.

☆

USCS

bil

cover

11

YOU

FLAG-WAGGING WILL GET

WAITER!

NEW

A

A YORK:

ດ

In

It is true that on closer

This "Patrick" is, in fact, an facts

bril- inspection one or two

impostor who has been about Nicholas strike a jarring

liantly coached for his part.

of tention note. His habit, while at school,

To this sourco of sticking pins in plasticine

another is added when it be- Simon is His hin Images of

enemies.

but murder of his Slamese A VICTORIAN ROMAN comes obvious that

la relleved ritual

TIC. By Oswald Doughnut deceived

when he meets "Patrick." Muller. 256.

The reason is, of course, that

gadget the other, near Leon, escaping the real Patrick did not drown

Hila himself, but was murdered by designed to solve the problem with only a few bruises. his brother. After which, all of summoning a waiter in- two mules and cart were left The first trains restaurant men al unrecognisable. hat remains to be done is to trigued

deed to the ita try-out in New York hit the tearn, and Angel, who bring home the

na usual, was All tho was fast asleep doer and clear up the mystery trade show recently.

does is to push n

thrown on to the track, scoop- of why the false "Patrick" has, diner-out

that filpa up a el up and out by the engine's such a close resemblance to the button, and

The next expresa the fender. little American flag Ashby family.

middle of the table.

seed through the unconscious men's trousers and vest. World of plenty

when picked was still malcep Iola HOLLYWOOD:

Ils companions have de- be caused

in Britain or any cided to call him, from now UD,

in Europe when the "Sleeping Muleteer." where else now Hollywood

It is called the shown there.

of Hos Heritage "American pitality" and its theme is that an American is lucky because recently in of

food all the

he can eat. 150 departments and more than a mile of counters. And on the Scenes women, her plate al-

different ready passing it across the table for items from hairpins to luggage of a great sets, from biscuits to wedding But there is not much that costs only 10 cents (3d). Typical Item-gurglee dolls£6

2172

NOW it would be too much to i expect a convincing portrait of Incarnate devil, but Nicho- los's hellish designs uppert lu be limited to fenthering his own nest, voting against reazinament

d visiting

Nuremburg the

one enough, Itally. Hardly would have thought.

bul

the when win in Abys

the when

When a lovely murderess was about to be executed, Hill, one of the brothers, midly suggest. ed that after all, the moral law had its claims

Horrified, his associates cried mut, "On Hall, you would never hang a stunner!"

There, in a sentence, you have the essence of the Pre-Raphaelite meu Young movemeri. sitting in a circle round Jany painting paint, paint, Morris,

beautiful borni young that woman! SWEET AND SOUR.

Joseph Wachsberg. Michael Joseph. 10s. 6d. 268 pages.

He may feel that other people Those desiring extra pocket are doing his work so well that money must submit sealed ulds, he can afford to sit back and je.g. for palating

buck gloat. the

the He in delighted Lowest porch.

Italian Fascists contract.

upset sil Spanish Fascists win in Spain.

pleased

Hitler in

when strengthens the German army pleased at all when but not

to be weakening Stalin seems the Russian army,

Nick's

viewB political confused as well as diabollenl.

He returns from a visit to the better Exhibition Parla

"In

British the because

FATHER

two shaving brushes at once, thus cutting 17 seconds off shaving time. He experimented with two razors, disappointment, He cuta 44 seconds oft time but thiront his bandage for tho wastes two whole minutes.

LC

DRESS

BUSTS HIRED

has rare

TERMS

been used cases of blood disease known as "leukaemia,"

A French girl last month hnd from 180 different 120 pints

people in 12 days in England a

a

There is a pleasant moment heart" when Mrs Mebaue asks mother pavillon

the

birth Russian, local to organise

Father Bounds Italian. control branch.

Bre

is dwarfed by tho the German and the

the assembly call.

A

The war in which Nicholas deal of happiness serves as a colonel in the Home

good

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

* DO YOU KNOW

WHAT TIME

IT 15.2

I WORKED

LATE."

"LOOK,DEAR! NEW HAT? - HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?

ONLY FIVE-NINETY- EIGHT/"

By

ITHER you know about Mr Wechsberg, or you don't

con-

If you know, I am wasting your time. If you don't know,

my presa let me firs! dolences on you and then urgo you to go forth and read a book called Looking For Bluebird. After that, you automatically become my debtor and need no me to read incitement from Sweet and Sour.

11 contimics, in Wechsberg's own brand of pawky narrative,

life-story the

of

Czech

A

Josephine Tep cannot TO. member a time when she did not write--strictly for her non amuto- ment. Was trained in PT and har earned her futng all over England. Sho U the auther of the play Richard of Bordeaux, which she serate under the name of Cordon

Davlat

LIBRARY LIST

Twilight on the Floods, By Marguerlie Steen, Collins, 12s. 6d. 104 pages.

If you are tired of verf long, rather sluggish novels, spread over the globe and stretched out over the years; if you think that the Flood family were all very wall in their slave-tending days but are not likely to be such good company now they are respectable you will not wish to read Twilight on the Foods.

The Philatines. By Pamela Michael Hansford Johnson Joseph, 10. Od. 304 pages.

When Gwen married Clifford, she did not realize that the was Also

that Branley. marrying boring suburb. Her unhappiness in marriage, frustration in defeat by Brunler, make that is honest, muled, with some of the wrJ quality of Briet Encounter.

The Fateful Years, By Andra Gollancz, 18%. Francois-Ponect.

295 pages.

The best ambassador in pre- war Berlin was the Frenchman, Here is his brilliant analysis of Nazism and Hitler, ending with an cerle visit to the tabulous Eagle's Nest

-(London Express Service)

more:

piled with

will

fim short is

up:

Not for 10 cents HOUSTON: The largest 10- cent store in the world opened Houston. It has

roast beef, counters aro 40,000

a close-up chunk of steak being cut into cakes. slices three inches thick.

answer

"Flying flat" DETROIT: The flying fat is each.

to Iwo Detroit's

ond cars. shorloges-homes For £1,200 the Ford Company will soon be selling a

Danny's a wow!

TORONTO: Comedian Dan- three- ny Kaye ranks sonicwhere boui Feather 1949 The tween Miss Red

Christmas in

roomed home on wheels.

titing room will be in the drive and Father

the

ing compartment. Behind that rating given to him in Toronto when he was given a civic wel- te a room with bunks for two.

selt- come before he opened a new home And behind that is the

for crippled stave £80,000 chenette, complete with

shower children. and a and "tridge"

Mechanical dustmen cabinet with usual offices and

NEW YORK: Dustmen, or H. & C. It will be as easy to

York wings, as New the manufac- white park, promised

calls them, ore about to bo- turers, as a normal large car.

They have mechanised. come Twenty- Invented a gadget which works

cleaner prin- two-year old Angel Fernandez, on the vacuum

run over by ciple to plok up litter from the a muleteer, was

one after strecta

LEON,

So tired

(SPAIN)

two express trains,

'The Latest Fiction'

BY KEMP STARRETT

"I DON'T REMEMBER, THE NAME

OF THE AUTHOR, EITHER, BUT

THE BOOK IS ABOUT THIS

THICK AND ITS

ABOUT A

FAMILY IN

THE COUNTRY

AND

ETC.

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AND

THE LATEST FICTION ALSO SOME OF THE OLDEST.

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SOMETIMES WE WONDER HOW LIBRARIANS KEEP FROM GETTING AS MEAN AS A BEE-STUNG MILE.

IF SHE GETS A GOOD CRY OUT OF IT ITS A GOOD BOOK.

SOME FICTION IS CALMING AND REASSURING UNLEST OR UNTIL YOU FIND OUT - THAT THE OTHER TWELVE BUCKS CAME OUT OF THE

HOUSE MONEY,

SOME FICTION KIIK OTHERS BESIDE THE READER AWAKE AUD AS RESTLESS AS A GOATS HOCE.

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OF COURSE! DIDN'T READ IT.. BUT THE REVIEWS

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MEMBER OF THE CULTURE CLUB PREPARING & ROAST.

THE BOOKS THEY HAD IN THEIR DAYS WERE DIFFERENT; NOT A BLIKK IN A CAR-