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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 18, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 places the stars and stripes april up photo in support of seat belts at a special hearing before the Tennessee legis lature in country Singer Barbara Man Drell makes an emotional plea for a proposed state Law making the use of seat belts Man who is expecting a was in a near fatal Auto Accident with her two children last card fans shuffling in to meet cigarette cards Haven been issued in Britain since 1939 but the annual convention of the car Tophilia Socie whose members collect the met in London this week to Trade in their Many millions of the cards were usually in sets of and the Mas produced sets can still be bought for a couple of pounds said society spokesman John but at auction a rare single card has sold for 300 pounds and a rare set for pounds he because of card prices Are rising above the rate of inflation now the really scarce cards were issued before the turn of the Century and by Small tobacco firms who Only sold their brands cards were originally issued to strengthen the paper packets in which they were sold and then As an incentive to buying a particular they were attractive to look at and the information on them was accurate and often cards were first produced by Marquis of lome cigarettes in the United states in the idea spread to Britain and ceased on the eve of world War ii to conserve paper the most popular cards Are those with military or sporting themes and people seem to be less interested in the ones on nature or which carry household Walton Irish author Calls her books distortion1 Irish writer Edna Obrien says Many of her novels have been mistaken for straight autobiographical sketches but Are really narratives of her life bound up with fantasy and i know that its something that people often assume about Obrien was quoted As telling London weekly observer they make the mistake because so much of my writing is in the first person and often in a confessional they think it my writing goes from life onto the but that would be rather Bald and rather she its through fantasy and distortion that writ ing takes first won International acclaim in the 1960s for such novels As the country girls and the love much of her writing is based on the world she knew As a child and her strict roman Catholic up bringing on a farm in West her third flesh and which opened recently in is the Story of a family reunion set in Rural she insists it is not it will look like As much of my fiction but it never its a she wheels of fury a photo British comedian Lenny Henry teams up with actress Linda Lou Allan for a spoof on pop Star Prince and his High powered this scene is from a mock video of Prince on henrys by ctr Obrien said her harsh upbringing had a crucial effect on her that will never be it has made me permanently and unwaveringly guilty about almost she i know that As people have often said to is and i would be the first to agree with if you have you have so my religion has bequeathed to me a sense of a sense of Obrien said her works reflected a preoccupation with death and a rather marked degree of anxiety that relationships Between people cannot i she was instilled in me As a very Young because i grew up in a world in which and especially marital were violent and she said writing is partly a Way of explaining feelings that people fail to communicate in Ordinary i think it was Samuel Beckett who said in paraphrasing that you write in order to say the things you dont she was quoted As its a or a or a whatever form it it is definitely an attempt to explain things and put them Queen has bats in her Royal Palace a former moslem who camped illegally at the railway station in new India for 10 years to de Mand the return of a will finally be Given a new Royal abode a overgrown Monu begun Wilayet head of a former Royal has been living in self exile at railway demand ing return of a Castle she claims was seized wrongfully by the British and kept by the Indian government in Northern utter after years of futile efforts by railway and govern ment offices to Force the Royal squatter the new Tough railway minister announced in parliament Nec Essary Steps Are being taken to evict the Begum a Royal title for the who lives with her son and daughter and a dozen pedigreed was offered five Resi Dences in Delhi to choose the head of the former Royal House of has decided to Grace Malcha a 600yearold Gary wants to quit strokes Gary Coleman Hopes to be doing something besides different strokes perhaps even writing Short strokes is said in los Angeles of his television i am tired of a Little id like to play my real age but they wont let me do Coleman has had a seven year run on the show and says there is a 90 percent Chance he wont renew his expired what i really want to do is he i like Short books and those 700page books of James Michener scare i want to write Short extra read All about Home delivery of 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