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METROFYI C2Z THE AGE THURSDAY 20 MARCH 1997 i The Hotseat A question for Bruce Mansfield Obituaries Chronicles Birthday Premier brought down by dams 1. i-'i 'i MHWyiiE IWpWWMMMMWMMMMMMWMi WW it 1 1 I 11 W'flK 2 1- ft feuds, and telling publicly of his illness. His wife of 34 years, Rosalind, said in a statement this week: "Harry embraced his illness from the start in a brave and honest manner, which was the measure of a loving husband true, honorable and just." He is also survived by two sons and two daughters. Andrew Darby Stan Drake Blondie illustrator and cartoonist Born: 1921 Died: Connecticut, 10 March 1997, aged 75 STAN DRAKE illustrated the comic strip Blondie and created the classic romance strip The Heart of Juliet Jones. The Heart of Juliet Jones, a collaboration between Drake and writer Elliott Caplin, debuted in March 1953.

King Features syndicated it as competition for Mary Worth, the day's leading soap-opera strip. At the peak of its popularity, The Heart of Juliet Jones appeared in 600 newspapers. Drake worked from photographs to achieve his realistic effects. His work on the romance strip earned him the top story-strip cartoonist of the year award from the US National Cartoonists Society in 1969, 1970 and 1972. In 1989, he turned the romance strip over to Frank Bolle to devote his time to illustrating Blondie, created in 1930 by Chic Young and seen in thousands of newspapers worldwide in 55 languages.

"Stan Drake was one of the masters," King Features comics editor lay Kennedy said. "His craftsmanship was astounding. His control of the pen was so great that you could enlarge one of his 5cm drawings to a poster the size of a door and every nuance would be there as if he drew the poster that size to begin with." Drake studied at the Arts Student League in New York, where he worked for an advertising agency and opened his own studio in 1949. An avid golfer, Drake illustrated the book 7e Touch System for Better Golf. Associated Press Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter.

Phone: (03) 9601 2595. 'a rr 'Mrs r- early on, realise your limitations. Don't aspirations so high' that you can't achieve Second, the great survivors always have ability to laugh at themselves. The ones who What's the ran'tflnr can't don't last, FIRST, have the and third, and most important, fall in love with what you'll be doing for the test' of your life. Bruce Mansfield co-hosts Television: The Way We Were, tonight at 7.30pm on Nine.

Yes, it's an old photograph. 1917: Dame Vera Lynn, English singer 1950: William Hurt, US actor Vice-Regal notes Yesterday, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, presided at a meeting of the federal Executive Council. Later, Sir William and Lady Deane received the ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark, Mr K. Lund-Jensen, and Mrs Lund-Jensen. State: The Governor, Mr Richard McGarvie, received the call of the managing director of the Australian Stock Exchange, Mr Richard G.

Humphry. Mrs McGarvie visited Red Cross Victoria as the guest of the executive director, Ms Kate Redwood. Curiosities GREG Nimmo (Footscray) wonders why the name Spion Kopje was given to several places in Victoria. "The name," he writes, "was brought here after the Boer War in South Africa, where it is the name of a hill near Ladysmith, and was the scene of the British Army's worst single defeat since the Crimea. Over 1200 British sholdiers died there on 23 January 1900.

Why were at least three places in victoria named after this disastrous loss? The only idea I can come up with is a possible payback for the execution by the British of Harry ('Breaker') Morant and Peter Handcock, Australia was extremely upset on learning of these executions and I suppose it's possible that we retaliated In this way." An interesting Idea, but I think Empire loyalism would have been considered sufficient reason to commemorate such a defeat (cf. Anzac Day). Gary Dean Parliament Federal: both houses of parliament will open at 9.30am State: Legislative Assembly will open at 10am Muslim prayer times Prayer times for today, the 10th Dhul 5 Qada 1417 Hijri: R5.59 am, pm, pm, 1:8.57 pm. Text for today Jesus said "everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will asog confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My i-atner wno is in neaven.

mannew 10:32,33 (New American Standard Bible) Word a day The apotheosis of, say, a style of architecture, is its Earliest manifestation? Growth and expansion? Highest development? Decline and fall? Answer below. Lotteries Keno: Winning numbers In last night's t) draw: 3, 7, 11, 17, 18, 21, 24, 31, 34,,, 35, 37, 40, 41, 47, 49, 63, 71, 75, 76 and 79. No spot-10 match-10 winner. Tonight's jackpot increases to about $1,131,000. Tatfs 2: Wednesday night's winning numbers: 14 and 64.

Both correct $1902. Either wins $3. Oz Lotto: In Tuesday's draw 161, there'-1 were no first-division winners. Prize pool jackpots to $3 million. Second division winners each receive division three: division four: division five: $45.90.

1 Word answer Apotheosis means deification or, 1 figuratively, highest development (of, say, an art form). From Greek apotheoo make a god of. 1 Target HOW MANY words of four letters or more 1 'Jean you make' from those shown here? -i Each letter may be used once per word. Each word must 1 contain the dIjJb NpjjE gljg Comics For Better or Worse 7 1 1 Harold Norman Harry" Holgate Farmer Premier of Tasmania and journalist Bern: 5 December 1933 Died: 16 March 1997, aged 63 HAItltY MOUIAXK was a journalist who liiianu' one of the country's liveliest "state Lahnr politicians and, briefly, Premier during Tasmania's turbulent dums debate era. a career revelling in both internal Al.l' party machinery and the tfSsitre of Parliament, he left political life at peace with old foes and widely liked by the public.

A state funeral will be held at SOohn's Church, taunceston. today. grew up in Maitland, New Smith Wales, and began his career at The Sydney Morning Herald, which he left in li)55 for Melbourne's The Herald. About tliil time he also joined the Labor Party. 1A succession of jobs at Launceston's Tiw Examiner, in public relations and as executive producer for the ABC's This txty Tonight followed before he became prrss secretary to the deputy Prime Miniver, Lance Barnard, in 1973-4.

This job hrrquit to enter State Parliament. Soon alter he was nicknamed "Headline Kach Sunday he brought his skills to bear in spreading his political -message from a spot on local radio. "I wTjild choose a news angle, do an analysis-piece, and then write press releases from it, with four or five sub-issues, and s3id them to the newspapers. -Within nine months he was Speaker, aiiO in the ensuing 18 years sat in two governments, was appointed Premier, and held every portfolio except one. "I dodged the portfolio of health like the ptUgue." he explained after retirement.

Holgate also became known as one of Tiisjoanian Labor's more skilled internal operators. He believed: "The Labor Party is-vcry tribal. Very tribal. In fact, we fight Qiit battles within the party room rather thari outside." U-le did much to hold up, and then "bfliig down, his predecessor as Premier, Ioug Lowe, over the dams issue. In the figbt to replace Lowe late in 1981, Hol-giilj; drew on strong trade union support.

He favored a dams referendum based B. two choices of power scheme, against the wishes of Lowe, in a long-running UiGor dispute that ended on 1 1 Novem- Cryptic no. 14.943 i 4 Greeting the report of a satis-Z factory funeral (4,7) 10 Impose to give lodging to back i number (3-4) Turn a heartache into a source of strength (7) 12 Cheer drop out and even commies -on the racetrack (10) "13 Saga of a Cheddar sandwich (4) "15 Two sailors from central Asia (6) 17 Conservative starts to regret mis (4-4) 19; Father itches to make a copy (8) 'it) Trick an old priest (6) "23 Minute can have a sticky end (4) 24 Fool around and play The Nanny (3.3.4) 27 Naval Officer among the ganders I in Columbus' crowd (7) 2 Estate agent renovates lot in the rear (7) 29; Say MBEs get easy government post (7) Return the odd increase in profit Ppwn Readily available title about dance? (2,3) Drops into Arab country with hearty opiate and alcohol addiction (10) 4 Sacred words in the German tradition (6) 5 Go a lot faster for a stony-faced set of presidents (8) Gentleman returns after island girl (4) 3 Thousand denounce a one-sided bridge game (5,4) fh The result of a lofted drive? (6) Part of Greece contained most of the population (6) Quick No. 16,300 Across Anxiety (4) -3 Good enough (8) fl Disregard (7) 10 Rugged (5) IX Act between others (12) 13tA metal (6) -1 Accusation (6) 17 Tory (12) 2tt Slack (5) 21 Rustic labourer (7) 22-Cherish (8) 29 Conduct (4) Down -cr Z'S Persuade (8) Just (5) -3 Hymn of praise (6) tS Immediately (12) 9 Swagger (7) Resound (4) Courage (12) 12 Mad (8) 14: Incite (7) If Correct (6) 18 Wrathful (5) 11 Monotonous (4) VJ STJ ANDWeVEHWTiMB THIS rtafllN 60MET1MB 'N SEPARATE I I Jvr'? The Phantom ber when Lowe was overthrown and then resigned from the party. In the subsequent 135 days in charge, Holgate's tenure was not marked by substantial achievement.

Instead, Tasmania was in growing political turmoil. The Hydro Electric Commission was flexing is muscles, the dams debate strengthening, and Robin Cray leading the Liberals in a revived Opposition. When the write-in "no dams" vote against labor's two alternatives emerged at about 40 per cent, Holgate was left in serious political trouble. Parliament was prorogued in what his opponents saw as an attempt to buy time and he returned to the floor at the end of March 1982 to lose a vote of confidence. On 15 May, Labor was swept from power by the Liberals, yet Holgate survived as a prominent opposition frontbencher.

It was with pride, seven years later, that he called on the surprise predawn floor vote to end the Cray era. By that time Holgate's wise head was in demand, particularly to keep labor in minority government from 1989 to 1992. After he lost his seat in 1992, Holgate remained involved in tourism as state manager of the Tourism Council of Australia. He wrote occasional pieces for 'Hie Examiner that revelled in politics. When he discovered he was seriously ill with cancer late last year, he made a point of revisiting old political friends and foes, settling outstanding Crosswords 14 He gets entangled with horse hair in a scene of great suffering (10) 16 Upset or offend before Quixote's mount (9) 18 Are tickers sound enough for this game? (8) 19 Leaf out of a book about Old Testament meal (6) 21 Try on a crooked solicitor (6) 22 Stella told to wait behind bus terminal (6) 25 Some scout erected part of the sportsground (5) 26 Break up when dropping off a side of the road (4) Quick No.

16,299 Across: 6 Abandon; 7 Demon; 9 Vogu; 10 Expiate; 12 Respiration; 14 Predecessor; 18 Conceal; 19 Store; 21 Reply; 2 Abreast DS I I I 13 4 9 M-n Down: 4 11 16 WHERE'S ALLTHE ORPBRePi fA FAUNSVU LEARNING TO WALKS. 6AME? CAN'T W'jJt SjUy 203 Solution Cryptic No. 14,942 ZLUBIIU0EL lRE oMeWsWpMbMhMf OlPlElMlHlOlUlSlElMUlNlPIIITI The Wizard of Id by Lynn Johnston by Lee Falk by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart by Frank Dickens SWISS PtRMy SURVIVKU 1S62 10M by Tom Ryan MORE DEVASTATING. I os Bristow LET'S centre letter ana were must be at least 1' one nine-letter word. No plurals ending In no foreign words; no proper names.

Source: Chambers Concise Dictionary. i Today's target: 20' words, good; 30 words? very good; 39 words, excellent! Solution In tomorrow's Metro. Verttdsy sohrBoiu 9 1 alloy ally also archly aryl call carol chloral-: choral chorally clary clash clay cloy coal coaly cola collar colly coral hall hallo halo hart holly holy lacy larch lash loach local' j- loch lory loyal olla oral orally rally rashly (., roll royal sally scaly scholar SCHOLARLY'1' (f schorl scroll shall shaly shoal shoaly sler Metro pass Kolya KOW Is a warm-hearted comedy set in Prague on the eve of the Velvet Revolution, opening at the SKino, .1 ana 1 Classic cinemas next Thursday. It was named best fdrelgn hinnona Rln kl. uiarV '9I Globe Awards, and is nominated In InitilnMui iumnlii To win one of SO double passes to preview, call the Kino on 9650 2142 between 11am and 11.20am today.

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