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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1950.
Cummings goes WOMAN-TRAPPING
He's the Adonis of the
playing fields.
IHAMPSTEA
He has an original
Ho saya **Paris is ro parochial,
Be's amusingly "broke and Bohemian.**
Hè "talks very well?
THE MAN WHO MADE POSSIBLE O
TELEVISION
T
++++++÷By +++++++++
J.W. TAYLOR
vised. When a few months later
the
Agure in Wardour-street world.
He's short eligible young man,"
London Express Service
on the
Sitting on
Fence....b
LD JOE STALIN ho
looked down
On the feast of Mou-
jike. 'Commissars
frown
with
awful
Cheered them with a few
kicks Rightly they complained that
aight
Cabbage soup was cru-cl. Roared the party bosses, Light,
"Give the baskets gra-oo-el." Deep depression then set in,
Ivan struck his mother, Uncle Grogski, full of gin, Shot his little brother,
TELEVISION broadcast living human face to be tele- ing in Britain is in its the Royal Institution was invited 21st year, although, after to view the latest wonder of the the transmission and of world, the first ten years
reception was a complete success. activity the war brought a
now appeared closure at Alexandra Palace.
with fame and fortune Granters with his path.
Powerful What of the struggle of John Logie Baird, son of a and opportunistic business in-
terests, however, clawed on to Shouted, of Presbyterian parson,
his new proposition, and Baird Helensburgh
to have
in Scotland, reaped nothing like the reward It the inventor, whose final that should have been his.
look much time and energy to experiments in colour and 100
persuade the
television into Dri- depth before he years later were
who remembered
we
be
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
Mouliks, dumb beneath the
stars,
Sull aint very clever, Under Czars or commissars They're as dumb as
CV-ST,
Letter to
"Go on?" I said,
"Laret Christmas." said the Sweep, "there was some fucky people who ad arf a turkey. This time they're goin to cut them up into quarters. And very nice, too."
"Very nice."
"Specially you git the par- son's nose in with your bit."
"That's right.”
Well, Mr B., as 1 am already buying dentures for hundreds of people who have been quite. "To say nothink of the Christ- tearing at mas meat bonus of arf an ounce happy up till now e-e4 steaks and skilfully picking of tongue and a
bones with their bare gums, think it's a bit unfair to pick on me for the wigs too.
Already I feel nervous when
Mr. Bloodsucker I see people being careless with
in
their
third of a Co1 sufferin arch- sausage. bishops, what a thing it is to be on the winnin side after a war, ain't it?"
bcen
sald the
"Ain't it?" "If we'd been on the losin the dentures I have bought
the old folk side like them there little old Being a letter to Mr Blood them. Many of sucker, the income-tax collector. only use them to crack nuts Germans we might ave Czars,
EAR Mr B.-I have given up with, keeping the unsightly, un- worse off."
comfortable DE
things Lavish with their rou-bels,
"We might." counting the number of let- "If
pockets during meals. must
think," "I don't ters you have sent me during ilciced,
When they do this I want to Sweep,
"Nor do I," I salt, Let's be kicked by noo-oo- the past week. They come by
every post, often two at a time. cay, "Please don't use them on be's."
I can't afford to
"If you was to arsk me," said Frequently the postman catches Brazil nuts. me with
one before I leave buy you another set." home, while another
going to happen to the Sweep. "I'd say them there postman
all little old Germans are too cun- leaves another at my offler. my nervous system when
Although fried experience that Christmas
died two to introduce authorities At the Kremlin Holy Joe
Sat up at the table,
halted so taln, and it was not until Sep-Here die party bosses go,
tember 30, 1920 that television broadcasting began in Britain.
a
tragically when flying bomb blasted his Sydenham laboratory?
COLOUR AND DEPTH
they were
in
Ealing all they're able. Boiled and stowed and
and roast (Thought By this time Baird had moved
heaven). From boyhood Baird had dis- to Sydenham to grapple with the played an inventive genius. The problem of giving television Caviare lay on the toast first telephone line he built con- colour and depth. He worked on Deep and thick and ee-ee-ven. nected his attic with four school- it through the war, and in
in the tore mates. One day a storm
Drain a glass of vodka down the wires, pulling a coach summer of 1944 he successfully Bosses dancing up and down
Froup demonstrated to astonished pressmen his latest With the ladies of the town, the cells in improvement by televising
of Mickey Mouse in Give poriralt
flesh and give A few glorious technicolour.
wine," later enemy action blasted days
Cry the bosses cru-el- his studio and ended Baird's
Mouliks, at the trough experiments.
swine.
OL
at
Holcha, hotcha Hodka.
What Is
"Me too," I said.
a yell "Cor luvaduck, what and a sercam there'd be if Ger- mans was expected to ave a quarter of a turkey and arf an ounce of tongue for Christmas."
"You would an all."
I know from past the bald heads in the country nin to go short of much."
is have wigs on me? your favourite time for making
I suppose my opinion in this the lives of honest wage-earners
count. Every miserable, while the cheats and matter doesn't
nices thumb their thing I have seems to belong to the smart I think you have you. In fact, I might as well noses at you,
be married to you. "But may I surpassed yourself this year.
"Not arf there wouldn't." had just say that I prefer bald heads At first I thought you
"Cor stone the crows, you'd address lost everybody's
but to stay hald-headed?
Baldness, particularly in the ave art the old ladies in Eng- mine and were spending your entire
writing
middle-aged, imparts an air of land writin to the papers about panicky man off his box. John experi-
day
benevolence.
In most cases it " with selenium
letters to me about income I mented with
a false Impression of pro- noticed that gives have never had. the kitchen, and built a small
Both intelligence. when your imagination gave out found powerhouse to supply the Bairds' house with electric light.
reached for my ale and pleasing pretences which harm you This tall, red-haired youth
like went back over the years, add nobody. I feel comfortable with
like that around. Little bits here and there on people to launch a successful went on
ing already pald
Why, then, should I spend my taxes £10 business for Π
Two years later, Balrd lay ill
money. buying wigs e of paper
in socks ("cool
It was ture
was clear that you needed hard-earned the Arst postwar television
your stomach in an uproar about summer, warm in winter"), but as
from Alexandra
some extra money badly, and it to make these kladly, wise-faced Sweep, "you don't want to git Illness obliged him to sell out Programme
It included in the northern paradise, was not until I read that the men look like a lot of insane
Ministry of Health is supplying Harpo Marxes? Man, and man his brother, and sojourn in Trinidad, In 1922 Palace took place.
the transmission of the Vitory
insane Isn't the country he was home again with malaria, Parade on one of Baird's latest Some stay put and some get wigs for all the bald heads in
It I understood enough as is? the country that FLICKERING IMAGE big sets. In a few days, Baird
be if it must In any case, why. During convalescence at was dead.
done, why can't you find some- Hastings, Baird pondered
body
else to pay for it?
the
the manufac
over
latest technical craze of
broadcasting. Why
mused,
as sound?
not, he
ill-health
us
Supped their freezing gru-
10-00
wise
Doing one another.
transmit pictures as well SOVIET JETS: in an laborn-||
and lack of an work
he set to
Baird had
tory. In two years succeeded in transmitting the Maltese Bickering image of a cross over a distance of threc yards by wire.
DID WE THROW
AWAY OUR LEAD FOR ROUBLES?
WHEN Britain sold 55 ↔ By ↔ lopment He was forced Wero engines to Rus-
to sell half interest in his in- complete invention, and moved
to Frith Street, in London's a she sold the world lead
Soho.
in jet engines given to her
There he was really up against during and after the war by it, and he experienced his most Air Commodore Frank
Creditors were whittle. difficult days. somewhat pressing, and he had
not yet succeeded in human aying
more
093
1
of
4
That is
what Britain's top
men are saying when
Wing-Commander
PAUL RICHEY
D.F.C.
they study the latest reports H¦={~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~†
Russia's new jet Oghter
seen in action against us in and appears to be capable of
700 miles an hour-fast enough
to outstrip any other fighter In was world service.
of
are
I could give you some names If the lawyer would let me,
Meanwhile, I hope you have a hard winter and a foul Christ-
ITAS.
May your wine be corked and your turkey full of maggots.
May your belly be sour and devils, your dreams haunted by
May there be no laughter in your house, no gind volces to give you welcome, no bright faces round your table.
And may you be kissed under the mistletoe by Ana Pauker.
with the Dim building the world's best-equip- ped air force by 1969.
The date has since been brought closer.
Meanwhile Russia concealed acquisition of her hand. Her British jet engines preceded a series of moves that have since startled air forces of the West. Russia's full resources are sul
said are 46 WELL," unknown.
airfields Her
"WELL
"eres to a merry Christ- and closely guarded. isolated
is ruth- Her antl-spy network less.
ting the features being: just shadows and outlines. for money. A advertised
shares
from of obscure country doctors with a
Insuffi- Korca. faith in television was cient for his needs, and he was
The sale which now causes obliged to seek financial assi
50 much heartburning tance from home. From Scotland
Only comparable machine is came the precious £500 which made in 1947. Britain, aiming
at a high
export target, sold the American F-80 Sabre, also saved a valuable sinking ship. Stalin 55 Rolls-Royce Jet en- with swept-back wings which
WENT AHEAD
gines-25 Nenes and 30 Der- does 070 miles an hour. wenta.
Britain's straight-wing engines, a direct de Metcor These
and Vampire and of the head of an old ventrile-velopment of Whittie's work, America's F-80 Shooting Star world's biggest alr force-10-
exported
the against quist's doll, and on October 2,
"were
and F-84 Thunder-jet ly at 1925, he saw the head forming advice of the Air Ministry, and about 600 miles an hour. In the receiver and Д greyish to the alarm and displeasure shadow growing into a face. He was beside himself rushed
Baird went ahead. The next step was to transmit the outline
ment as be
grotesque
of the Americans.
with excitement as
ing office
and into an adjoining pounced on the nearest hurmat
for his live experiment-offee
What we do know is that she has in production?
(1) A four-jet bomber; (2) Two types of twin-jet bomb- ers; (3) At least three types of jet aghtery.
And, of course, she has the tolling 19,000 planes.
There
ong heartening Russia's lead is a menace. note. Britain and America are
into fighter is putting
the production The awept-wing
powerful jet engine yet recognised as the fastest design most
designed, the Armstrong Sid- yet invented. Yot Britain, al-
sho has two swept- deley Sapphire. In the right Opposition was crushed by though
we have yet to dosigna flying, has not plane-which interven wing top-of-the-Cabinet
probably
would comfort- them, and
produce-it ably outstrip the MIG-15, It was a trembling youth who tion, and the sale went on, ordered
Out .went Britala's secret will not do so.
British Gov- But air forces are judged by took his place before a whirl ce engines; in came the roubles.
Reason la the
garablo under
long-range machinery
strong are
power in the air, not on the But-Air Ministry Intelligence ernment's into the
time. lights, Haird dashed
It made the first bench, uusi
continued to
with agliate. next room and switched on, but chiefs
the exports were throw in 1948 when it coo- nothing showed up. He hurried Suddenly
without explanation, sidered that there could be no back to find that the scared lad stopped had bent his head out of focus. and
boy William Taynton.
по леж
A half-crown induced him once since been contracts have war before 1000, Britain there-, evidence that the armament of
made.
TECHNICAL NOTE: There is foro decided on a stop-gap MIG-15 include at least one The engine used in the air force of medium perform- 30 mm, cantion. The British and more to take up the right posl tlou and keep it. Baird started latest Russian fighter the ance aircraft, mainly for train American air forces cling to their smaller 6.5-inch and 20 believed to be a ing. up, and there appeared on the MIG-15-la
Most of the available money mm, wartime weapons... of his receiving copy of the Nene. This plane
London Express Serolce.) magic mirror set the full outline of the Areil has swept-back wings and fall, went into research
POP
ROBIN!
YOURG
GROWING INITO
THE GORT OF BOY
and. deve-
Twisted outlook-
7
YOUR
MOTHER DOESN'T WANT
YOU TO
The Sweep
the Sweep,
mas,"
"Same to you," I said. "Though it wont be art as Jolly as larst time."
"Specially from them that
live on farms and freep their. own poultry
"That's right."
"All the Bame," said the
"My stomach ain't in an up- roar," I said.
"If you want to have a mSITY” Christmas you ought to keep out of wars altogether like there little old Argentinos."
"Too true."
them
"Then you could make à bar- gain to sell your meat to us and sell it to somebody else at af bigger price."
"I could an all." "Like agreement,"
it."
makin a gentleman's
"That's right.”
"With only one gentleman in
"You said it.”
"And all because. you didin't give
welcome to a proper
como Madam Peron when she over."
"Go on?" I said.
"Which only goes to show that beggars can't be choosera,”
"It certainly do." "The skin off your nose," said the Sweep.
"The skin orf" yourn.”
(London Express Servicw)
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