A Cure for Cancer

I Lynda Bird to wed George Hamilton?

The next day Jerry and Karen went to the pictures. They sat in the front seats of the Circle and ate popcorn as they watched Drums Along the Mersey. Sir William Harrison played the moody, introverted explorer, Ina Shorrock was the proud Queen of Port Sunlight and Eric Bentcliffe emerged in one of his best roles as the rascally trader from the interior.

2 My teenage wife won't let me out of her sight

Leaving the cinema they walked hand in hand down West-bourne Grove in the late sunshine. A West Indian with a tray around his neck sold Jerry a pot of Chaulmoogra, guaranteed as treatment for leprosy.

A squadron of M-6o tanks, mounted on guarded flatcars, went past them towards Queensway. A crowd of dancing children followed the tanks. The grinning soldiers threw Hershey Bars and Tootsie Rolls to the children.

3 How a banana endangers the Lennon sisters

Jerry signalled for the gate of his Ladbroke Grove H. Q. to be opened. A Corporation Dust Cart turned the corner.

Balanced on the cab was a man in a fur jacket and a fez. His right hand clung to the truck's canopy and he shouted vigorously through a megaphone.

'Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!'

4 Why Connie threatened Eddie with a lawyer

Jerry poured himself a Pernod and handed the glass of Tio Pepe to Karen von Krupp. They were dressed in identical velvet suits of violent violet from Mr Fish. The effect was a little more pleasing than a Pre-Raphaelite painting. Their flies were undone.

5 The secret Mia won't tell Frank

They lay naked on the red plush bed cover staring up at the blue plush canopy of the brass four poster. Their skins, black and pink, shone with health.

'Fresh air,' he said. 'That's it.'

'Why?'

'It'll be necessary to go to the country sooner or later. We've been in London a fortnight, you know.'

'And nothing's happened. Are you worried by the stillness?'

'I suppose so. There's a shipment tomorrow. It could go straight out again.' He sniffed at her hair.

She began to stroke the skin of his inner thigh.

'It's too good to be true.' She nipped his forearm with her teeth.