Malaya Tribune, 4 June 1950

Microfilm: NL3774
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    29 3 THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE, JUNE 4, 1950 THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune Office, 143 Fie et Btreet, London, E C. 4. SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1950
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    'We're Fed Up Of Dehydrated Potatoes' The Seaforths Told Mr. Strachey
    473 3 Tribune Stan* Reporter WHEN War Minister Mr. John Strachey visited the Ist Bn. Seaforths at Selarang Barracks yesterday morning he asked the soldiers, "Any complaints?" The men said. "Yes, Sir." They told him that they were "quite fed up"
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    CYCLING AT 73
    30 3 Gn his second attempt, 73 year-old Mr. A. Home cycled from Grantham to London (100 miles) and back on a 30--year-old machine ten hours' pedalling each way.
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    Singaporeans Lack Civic Conscio usness—McNeice
    197 3 Singaporeans Lack Civic Conscio usness McNeice SINGAPOREANS have a lot to learn about civic consciousness and social responsibilities, said Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, the Acting Municipal President, yesterday, j when he opened the Upper j. Serangoon Public Lending Library. f He cited a case in which a hundred people
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    135 PEOPLE VANISH —AND NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THEY'VE GONE
    238 3 ...But Police Say, 'No Cause To Worry' Tribune Staff Reporter MYSTERY surrounds the fate of 1.35. Singapore people. They walked out oi their homes last year and nobody ha» heard of them since. But yesterday a Police spokesman said: "There is
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    NG IS STILL IN HOSPITAL
    53 3 Tentative charge of murder was brought up for mention against Ng Kai Seng, in the General Hospital prison ward yesterday. Ng was alleged to have fatally shot Mr. Yong Yit Lin on May 25 in Bukit Pasoh Road. The case v. as postponed for mention
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    EX—BOYS' HOME BOY GAOLED
    67 3 Osman bin Abu Hamid. 8 young Indian, who wras recently released from the Bukit Timah Boys Homo in which he had been confine* for two years, was sent tc Jail foi two months by the First District Juugi- yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge
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    TALK GN MALAY LIFE IN COLONY
    73 3 Dr. P. Pauhneans will rive a talk at the East-West •society Meeting, to at hole on June 8 at 8.30 p.m.. at the British Council Hail Dr. P. Pauhneans *ho I on 18 months leave in Singapore, is a Professor in the University ol
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    'Post' Men Here To Cover Troops
    80 3 TWO Picture Post men arrived here yesterday on an assignment to cover the troops hero at rest, at play, at work and at war against tne bandits. They are Haywood MaGee. photographer, and Steven h;mmons. correspondent. As yet. arrangements have not been finalised as
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    A LUCKY DAY FOR 72 FAMILIES
    284 3 King's Birthday: Tribune Staff Reporter tfING'S Birthday this year, which falls on Thursday, will be a lucky day for seventy-two artisans' and workers' families in Singapore. On that day, Sir Franklin Gimson.-the Governor of Singapore, will formally open 72 artisans and workers flats at
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    'STOP GIVING GOODS ON TICK'
    345 4 POLICE WARN TRADERS Bandit Fighters In Debt..... Tribune Staff Reporter CPECIAL Police Constables, most of them bandit fighters, are getting into debt anff the reason for this is that shopkeepers in Johore are encouraging them to run up large credit accounts. The Johore Police is
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    JUDGES RULING SOUGHT
    232 4 MR. Justice Evans was asked in the High Court yesterday to give a ruling on an issue arising under the terms of an agreement, dated August 14, 1948, for the loading of iron ore from lighters and tugs into ships. The parties to the agreement are N.
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    SAMBASIVAM LEAVES
    54 4 Sambasivam. 27-year-old Indian Trade Unionist who was reprieved from the death sentence for carrying arms by the Privy, Council, left Penang for India aboard the "Rajula" yesterday. Since his release from prison, he has been held under the Emergency Regulations. Born in India, Sambasivam has been in Malaya
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    They'll See Red If It's Not Green
    98 4 UNAUTHORISED slaughterers who have been faking the Municipal dye and chop to "pass" meat for Singapore's markets are in for a shock. Reason: Municipal experts after four weeks of intensive research have worked out a new dye containing a mysterious ingredient which when
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    BULLS AID VARSITY FUND
    55 4 Bulls in Kelantan are doing their bit towards the building of the University of Malaya. This was indicated in the latest list of donations to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, in which there appears an item "Nik Nahza Chairman Fighting Bull". $472.50". Total donations as
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    Happy? Sure Thing
    83 4 MR. and Mrs. Bertie Nelson Beins, after their wedding at the Church of the Good She pherd, yesterday. The bride, formerly Miss Henrietta (Oirlie) Valberg, wore a most attractive dress of shirre d and tucked white brocade satin. She icas gixen away by Mr. F. Monteiro. The
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    $200,000 HOME FOR BLIND MUSLIM CHILDREN SOON?
    284 4 NEGOTIATIONS between the Federation Government and the Johore Government for a piece of state land is holding up a major Federation Social Welfare scheme to build a $200,000 home for Muslim blind children at Johore Bahru. The home will consist of "pleasant looking
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    WANTED: 180 MEN FOR THE ARMY
    108 4 MAJOR J. FROST, Chief Recruiting Officer for Malayan Other Ranks, seeks for 180 recruits from the Federation this month. From June 7 to 8 inclusive he will interview potential Army recruits between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily at the PCLU Office. Bathurst Road.
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    PRESS CONFERENCE
    22 4 MALACCCA, Sat. The next press conference of the Jtesident Commissioner, Malacca, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, is on une 7.
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    The Joget Modern Is On Its Way Out
    161 4 Tribune Staff Reporter JOGET MODERN—the livelier version of the Malay Ronggeng—stall managers say that the dance has "had it" They complain that their takings are dropping and that the "boys who frequent our stalls" have made requests for more ronggeng numbers. The
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    YOUNG'S FURLOUGH
    43 4 MALACCA, Sat. The Malacca Chinese Teachers* Association will hold a teaparty in honour of Mr. J. Young, Senior Inspector of Schools, Malaca, today, at 2 p.m. at the Seng Cheong Society at Tranquerah Road. Mr. Young goes on long leave shortly.
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    DORIS DAY TAKES OVER FROM CROSBY
    61 4 Blonde Doris Day is today Singapore's favourite crooner. Music dealers say that Doris has pushed the old gang Crosby, the Andrew Sisters and Sinatra completely into the background and that her records "sell fast." Doris Day's It's a Wonderful Feeling" records are the best
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    Forgot His Crutches
    94 4 OFFICJALB of a Singapore airline company are looking for a man who left a pair of crutches in a plane. "It always happens," say the officials, "even a newspaper is left behind." False teeth on one occasion grinned toothily from a seat at an air hostess when
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    THE WORLD IS BEGINNING TO LOOK BRIGHTER FOR THIS MAN IN THE DARK
    272 4 Tribune Staff Reporter Sip, an orphan whose once sightless mm are begining to see again believes that angels clad in trim white uniforms, do come down to earth to help a man in distress. Wong was a
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    PARTY FOR TODMAN
    32 4 MALACCA, Sat. The Malacca Municipal Labourers' Union is holding a teaparty in honour of Mr. D. L Todman, Municipal Engineer, tomorrow. Mr. Todham is leaving for Kuala Lumpur shortly.
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    WILL REED FIND HIS STAR?
    107 4 riLM Director Mr. Carol 1 Reed and his party will leave Singapore for Jakarta on Tuesday, to continue his search for suitable filming locations for the film he intends to make— "An Outcast of the Islands" Tomorrow at the Shaw Building, In Robinson Road Mr.
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    'LADY PRECIOUS STREAM' COMES TO MALACCA
    63 4 MALACCA. Sat. Members of the well-known Loke family of Kuala Lumpur will stage "Lady Precious Stream" at the City Park. Malacca, on Saturday. June 17. Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua, the well-known tennis player will be one of the cast. The show is sponsor I
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    500 FAMILIES FACE STARVATION
    560 5 THE MEN ARE LEAVING AND THE WOMEN FEAR THEY'LL BE OLD MAIDS Pnlan Ubin- Singapore's Forgotten Neighbour Tribune Staff Reporter, pi LAI! I Join—a fifteen-minute journey across the waters from Changi Point—is Singapore's forgotten neighbour. Disquiet today broods over its people who not very long ago
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    THE BRIGHT SPOT-A NEW POLICE STATION
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    KING'S BIRTHDAY
    28 5 MALACCA, Sat. A garden party will be held at tne Residency. Malacca, at 5 p.m. on Thursday. June 8. to celebrate the birthday of the King.
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    Passing Through
    89 5 (KXXHE WITHERS BRITISH jiln, stars John MoOmWum and Qabgia Withers (husband and ivije in private life} tcill shortly be passing through Singapore on their warn to their hmne AustxiUti where thvii an to 00 mi a stage tou, Thĕ trip trill be undertaken aftrr Qoogi* has made one
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    HUNDREDS SEE MIRACLE'S TATUE
    179 5 Tribune Staff Reporter JJUNDREDS of Roman Catholics are still flocking to a statue in Ipoh. It is a miniature replica of the famous "miracle" statue of Our Lady of Fatima. The statue, believed to be the only one of its kind in the country, arrived here
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    Detainees Are Keen Bible Readers
    141 5 gMERGENCY Regulation detainees in Singapore and Malaya are the keenest of all Bible readers, according to the annual report of the Malayan Joint Agency of the National Bible Society of Scotland and the British and Foreign Bible Society. Says the report, dealing with the Societies'
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    'The Blue Lagoon' In Tamil
    53 5 TAMIL-speaking audiences in Malaya may soon be able to enjoy a Jean Simmons film in their own tongue. I gather that the J. Arthur Rank Organisation has successfully "dubbed" "The Blue Lagoon" soundtrack In Tamil, and will shortly be sending copies out to Malaya. Ceylon
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    CINEMA SWEEPERS DREAD TARZAN FANS
    143 5 SINGAPORE'S cinema sweepers dread a Tarzan or Western picture. For this means hard work for them. Said one cinema manager yesterday. "Our cleaners have a tough job when a Tarzan or Western picture is screened. "It may sound pretty odd, but we have noticed that
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    His Livingr— In The Bag
    100 5 THAT old newspaper of yours is giving this man a tidy income every month. Ho Chew Hock with a pot of glue turns old newspapers into bass and shopkeepers are his best customers. Ho learned his business from his father, and Ho in turn is
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      191 5 Naval Oflirfr aliout 1835. An officer of the Senior Service when King William IV (the 'Sailor king") wa« reigning. He wa- first sent to sea at the age of 11. but was in hi? 65th year when he heeame tfPLi kin« and ruled for only 7 year*. True to tradition—
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    THIS SINGAPORE...
    3848 6  -  By VERA ARDMORE NEVER a dull moment In Singapore. Carol Reed came to town on Tuesday. With him came his associate producer. Mr. Hugh Percival. Captain Tom Hussey, R.N.. who is in charge of administrative details, and his assistant director, Mr. Guy Hamilton. They are here to find
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      255 6 I SINGAPORE TO SAIGON rOu Connections for all 3 parts ol Lido-China "v\r\ Arrivals from Satgop wy V Thursdays 3.50 p.» C^—-v Departures for Saigon Fridays 7.30 am AIR FRANCE booking ornct CENWAI cc ,s Ground rsir Ci 1 MKHS*ri» Maritime* Tel 4!85 Rheumatism, Ankles Puffy Backache, Kidneys Strained! tf
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    THEY BLUSHED WHEN—
    99 7 KENNETH PENMAN told his fiancee Pamela Thitheradge that she had paid too much income tax the previous year and was due for quite a big rebate. Already planning to spend t on her trousseau, Pam swept along to the income tax authorities fueling much CUM**. »-»«u b
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    SILHOUET TE No. 17
    635 7 TALL, slim John Alopsius Thiiy, tht Rt preventative for India, has such o youthful air that when I met him first at a dinner party two yens ago, I asked if he were the son of Mr. I. A. Thii y. It seems strange to think
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    THIS LONDON...
    2767 8  -  From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON. Sat. SIR GEORGE MAXWELL. K.C.M.G.. Chief Secretary. F.M.S. Government. 1920-26. says there are no bandits in Malaya. The men who are causing all th a trouble are enemy guerrillas the advance guard of a possible campaign of Invasion, charged with the responsibility of making
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      55 8 Established 1872 Malaya's Leading Jewellers Diamond and Gem Merchants B.P. de Silva Ltd. (.Incorporated in Ceylon; 19/21, High St., Singapore 1, Bishop St., Penang. i iingkujon TWO STABS PRESSUR LAMP AS BRIGHT AS SKY ECONOMICAL OIL CONSUMPTION LONGER SERVICE SOLID CONSTRUCTION SOLD EVERYWHERE Sole Distributors LEA HIN CO., 231, South
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      29 8 fatten Apphf Cctieors Otntmwit to erupuons. ItssooUanf. rnodwa" and antiseptic actwa works »on ders At the very first fwicb T*» toei its rosrvsllou* sootJunf eMtco SOOTHES 4 I HEALS
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    Continuing the story of...The amazing SIR TOMMY LIPTON
    1999 9  -  His £25.000 cheque saves Princess of Wales from embarrassment Continuing the story of by Alec Waugh WHEN Thomas Lipton went into tea in tie 1890's he transformed, amost at one stroke, his local chainjof provision shops into a business o| national and
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    But no one Knew him
    91 9 LIPTON remained in these years a man with no friendships outside his business. He never went to a theatre. He never dined in London His only entertainment was an electroDhon* 3 a I telephonic contrivance i never popular and now long extinct that could be
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    Now life Changed
    95 9 HE came back to Britain at the end of April, in the following week there appeared in the newspapers a letter addressed by the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra) to the Lord Mayor 0i London:— The Princess enclosed her cheque for £100. In the midst ol
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    Views on Women
    193 9 p NEXT time he arrived he was invited to express his opinion of the American woman. It was the period of the bicycling craze. "There are no bloomers and short skirts in England yet." he said: "the women ride in long skirts that catch in wheels and
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    The Queen's Knight
    84 9 AT the close of the year his name appeared in the New Year Honours List as a knight bachelor. It was said that this honour was paid to him at the personal request of the Princess of Wales. On January 18. 1898, he crossed the Solent in
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    A date with destiny
    19 9 I ON the second of June, in the Cannon Street Hotel, Lipton presided over hi*
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    NEXT WEEK
    24 9 Z.//VO// challenges for the Americas Cup: The first Shamrock: He becomes the nil' of tho continents and the crony of hdward VII
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    A REMINDER
    581 10 IS there any place in Malaya for the famous British reticence? That very pertinent question is asked by Mr. Albert E. Norman, chief correspondent in Australia for that sane and sober American newspaper The Christian Science Monitor. Now Mr. Norman has many interesting things to say and a
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    BARBARA FACES THE FUTURE
    1160 10 "Y ou know the way there's I only one Danny Kaye in a lifetime? Well, that's how it was with her. She walked in here, put on that black taffeta dress—and paralysed 'em." The critic was Julian Rose, London's South Molton Street, dressmaker who caters especially
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    A GRAND OLD LADY
    943 10 ONE fine May morning 83 years ago, Princess Mary. Duchess of Teck. was brought to bed—in the vigorous wording of the day—of a fine girl, whom she christened in sentimental Victorian fashion after the month of her birth on May 26. Princess Mary, better known as
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    STRANGER THAN FICTION
    438 10 Gulp. Irvine Northrup, 69-year-old workman of Pianomedina, Ohio, often boasted he could swallow small objcts. Last week he swallowed a four-inch hatpin, a six-inch machine shop punch, a spoke, and two thermometers, all tied together by a piece of string. "Apparently he thought he could draw them
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    FAROUK IS THE MOST BELOVED CREATURE
    756 11 |N an ecpen ye green and J w nit< d« -rated suite in me fahion;)ble Nob Hill Hotel n San .Francisco, queen NaaU ot Egypt tg*Bg to mate her five r c Cioiartes. gl„ ad BM accomplishment 1 ii .n ii-inaking which t >ck*
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    LATIN ENGLISH
    218 11 SIR Malcolm Sargent, who at the age of 55 last week was appointed to succeed Sir Adrian Boult as conductor of the 8.8.C. Symphony Orchestra, looks floridly Latin and is proudly English. His family background is Lincolnshire, and he's most at home conducting the English choral societies which
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    BEHIND THE HEADLINES TURKEY'S BAYAR
    482 11 MR. CELAL BAYAR. who last week surprised the world by wresting political control of Turkey from the entrenched Inonu regime, is a medium-sized professional politician who wears hornrimmed glasses and is going bald. Like most Turkish leaders, he comes from what sociologists call "the proleterianised
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    DRESS HELPS GUSSIE'S MORALE
    244 11 Ml PIERRE ISALMAIN, who designed the latest tennis dress with which Miss Gertrude Augusta Moran wooed the world's headlines last week, was a little taken aback when he -earned at the end of Miss Moran's Press conference that she was leaving for the States the same
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    The Wizard Of Ayr
    327 11 JOHN RAMSAY, a jolly little grocer from Ayr, Scotland, didn't think he would be able to attend the first Combined International and U.S. Magicians' Convention in Chicago this year because of the Exchequer's ruling against taking more than £5 out of the country. But when American
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    Lost Her Husband
    283 11 MRS. Dorothy Snel! Curtis, who managed to lose her husband's following taxi in the Montreal traffic and thus take their four-and-a-half-year-old son back home with her to Washington. D.C., was keeping a sharp lookout for her husband. Mrs. Curtis, a very pretty, slim, blue-eyed blonde about 5
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      152 11 SPECIAL ATTRACTION TCOTGHT AT RAFFLES HOTEL AT 9.30 P.M. THE CELEBRATED FRENCH GUITARIST JEAN FULLER AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT BY CASTILLO'S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA MANAGERS: MANSFIELD COMPANY, LTD. JI W° SINGAPORE TELEPHONE 5021 TELEGRAMS "TERBANG "ST/ «H FIT-PATRICK S 8 SINGAPORE I H t OUR <* SHIPPING DEPARTMENT now offers a day
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    ALONG THE BOOKSHELVES NOT OF THIS WORLD
    605 12 Themes and Variations, by Aldotis Huxley (Chatto and Windus, 12s. 6d.). lIFHEN he wrote Brave New World. Aldous Huxley fancied that the third revolution was still five or six centuries away. Today he thinks that Orwell's forecast in Nineteen Eighty Fottr is more
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    And Ends With . Pity
    373 12 And Ends With Pity Age Without Pit v. by John Preble (Seeker and Warburg, 10s. 6d.) IOHN PREBBLE is a young journalist who has the sharp eye for detail characteristic of his craft. Ho has also an imaginative symj pa thy and a feeling for i human beings which is
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    BIOGRAPHY
    65 12 ISABEL C. Clarke's careful biography, Maria Edgeworth: Her Family mid Friends (Hutchinson, 18*.). bs concerned mainly with -the events in the life of onn of the most successful novelists of the past It bresentfl an agrecabb picture of an aristocracy which used its ample leisure for "use and improvement,"
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    Strange As It Seems
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    GUIDE TO BLUE BLOODS
    175 12 Dcbretts Peerage (Old- ham's Press. £0 :,s.). THK work of c. p. j. Haii--1 kin:.on. Editor ot D*brett. is never done. No sooner is one edition ready than work starts on next. Keeping tabs on' some 100,000 scions of no2SX i m ns maintaining several thousand
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    HAVE FUN WITH THE Stars AQUARIUS
    49 12  -  By CONSTANCE SHARPE JAN. 21—FEB 18. j 1 OU Will have several qood idea* connected .with.money l',,f ,lL ejrcitvment is n th ld€r F C(yple uin fall ,n ->tl> your plans end wtll offer some very sound advice. Entourage optimism in loved ones.
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    PISCES
    43 12 n FEB 19 —MARCH 20. i ogress will only be made this week if you yet the support of those around you into your confidence and to impart a little of your own enthusiasm to them. A very lucky break is indicated.
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    ARIES.
    43 12 MARCH 21 —APRIL 20. W iden your contacts und don t miss opportunities to act out und meet people. Look after your health and don't let motor ailments creep uo vllT7/u Un,/ people in hie nl, ls a week °f small adventures.
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    TAURUS.
    51 12 4/ 7 e/ 21— MA Y 20. cople will let you know, lit J tevtou* means, that they like you. You will be invited to new places and to take part tn fresh things. You will have to make several rather unusual journeys. In the home tcIox and have
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    GEMINI.
    51 12 MAY 21—JUNE 20. «Mrfwi your Possessions and don t discard things until r°Aw are Ure that you realh > CAN afford replacements Loved ones will try to get you u Z7.!?V'' 'Men to what they have to say. A ytft towards the end of the week will take you
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    45 12 JUNE 21 -JULY 23. t f l3 Wonld be a good time hijyj? m P° rtan t changes and indeed, you may be offZld Yru b field You may have a chance to change your address, too. 1 ou wtll feel full of uutimi**,.
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    56 12 JULY 24—AUG. 23. erWon concerning money will have to be modi it ,s possiblr that jfou will be of- rem n ,i,b paying mon them your en settt on Yom MHI have to think vtnt eartfulh, by the o*4 of the m •2*!? n of r :at '"'Port'intv tctU
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    52 12 W 4 \JI jr. AUG. 24—SEPT. 23. Think for yourself and don t do things just because other people do them. Keep your originality and individuality. if you follow the herd, you will be led back to the same old. pastures. A yroup of friends will sprint/ u surprise
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    40 12 —*V/# OCT. 24—NOV. 22 You will feel rather unsettled and new arrangements made recently will not Vf* have dove-tailed into the old structure. Be patient and f cy l\' f An old ambition will be achieved towards the iceek-end.
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    47 12 vjt DEC. 23—JAN. 20. Changes are likely—and you 'pay benefit considerably from them. A loved-one will give you all the support and co-ope ration you need. Young lovers will feel an ujgc to reorganise completely their plans and they would be well arttnsed to go ahead.
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    292 13 Reuter. A VOL A. SICILY. Sat. WHEN the Italian film "It's Spring" comes to the local cinema of this tiny village. 30-year-old Santa Caruso will stay at home. She has no desire to see on the screen the grim story of the murder she committed four years
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    2509 15  -  No Dunkirk this time: A ease of too little and too late 4 The last due with MONTGOMERY By DESMOND YOUNG I N the spring of 1944, when the Allies were preparing the invasion of Normandy, Rommel was made Commander-in-Chief of all
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    597 16  -  By A. SCHIMANOV Every well-to-do Soedanese keeps at least one fighting ram, and if he owns two or three he is considered rich. A ram of a good breeding cpsts a hundred to three hundred guilders, an<l big wagers are often
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    1459 16  -  by QUIZ nESPITE repeated reassurances by His Majesty's Ministers, including one by the Prime Minister himself, there still appears to be some doubt as to whether Singapore and the Federation are to be given self-government. Yet the basic position is perfectly clear. We shall have self-govern-ment
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    380 17  -  By Our Cricket Correspondent rE Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament has reached a very interesting stage. Today, the second round begins and, as the table indicates, the battle appears to be an open one. Last year's champions, the Singapore Recreation Club, lead the
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