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... MR. KERRIGAN was a Romantic--that is to say, he had the knack of adjusting the world to suit his own particular require ments. These stretched far beyond his desk at the office, and farther still from No. 7, Acacia Road. ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Gulf Between. Never the twain shall meet, and all that-- and I suppose it is well-nigh impossible for the Westerner to fathom the Oriental mind. I have tried it, without success, with certain intelligent Indians, and I once heard a long discus sion between Mr. Gandhi and a number of earnest English questioners. It seemed to me that not a single question was ...

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Charles says he will soon be Beveridged and that we must look out for a cosy bed-sitting-room somewhere and settle down to a planned, directed and controlled old age. After all, said Charles, who always believes in looking on the bright side, there 's a lot to be said for it. I shall knock off work punctually at six o'clock every evening. Punctually. My dear ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Summer of Our Discontent. One of the immediate privileges of peace is that the weather is decontrolled and one can say anything one likes about it in speech or writing. Well, as the bargee observed, I won't say wot I was a-going to say, but wot I do say is that I have never known a more perversely exasper ating summer. True, all inhabi tants of these islands say ...

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... 1 1 NAVALCQRRESPQNDET^S/' By BRUCE WAUGH. SHE'S wunnerful, sighed Able Seaman Albert Dooley, of H.M.S. Topsides, gathering up a bundle of letters that the postie had dumped in front of his excited eyes. Absolutely wunnerful. he sighed again. 'Oo is asked George Whackitt, an Able Seaman whose mental vision at that moment could discern nothing but im penetrable gloom. George's mail had ...

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... Out of Battle-dress is the Order of the Day for the lucky ones who are planning their own private oper- ations again. Subaltern Pat Radar for instance, interviewed yesterday, declared that gees are the only sort of rehabilitation she needs. I'v'e got a wizard riding-tour all lined up. Three of us are going from Battle that's rather significant, isn't it to Falmouth, right across England. ...