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I
MIGHT have bought
a little house
The cottage of my
dreams
But money saved to pay for
- it
Has paid for groundnut
schemes.
I might have had a holiday
In Paris or Capri
If money earned had not been
spent
On nuts I'll never see.
I might have bought a motor- car with shining wheels and "wings
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
LEHÄPMAN KEINCHER COLUMN
CORA
AND THE LONG LOW WHISTLE
PARIS.
Britain's ultra-cautious Dr A.
CAN man build a robot M. Utley of Malvern Wores,
rave
No type-
this intelligence test ng an its own a machine that example of the logical problems will weigh up a situation, Mary can solve. On a punched reason it out, make a decl- card he "fed" Mary with these
facts: sion, and then act on it?
All the letters I have received After listening for a week which were written on white to 300 robot-machine ex- paper were typed. ports, doctors, and biolo written letter has been sent to Me in an unscaled envelope. gists, at a conference in the Some of my bills are on white Latin Quarter of Paris, I paper. I have not paid any bills believe the answer is "Yes," which did not come in unscaled
that I am satisfed
robot envelopes. brains already built can "think," and that robots with superhu- man mental powers will soon be possible,
The astonishing anties of five robots lead me to this view.
First there was-
CORA
Then he put this question: Have I paid all my bills?
you
Time how long it takes to prove that the answer is No. 1 few. Mary Bgures it out in thousandths of a second.
MAC
The No. 3.robot is a canny counting machine, built by Cora la a nightly, red-and- Paris's silver-haired Professor black tortoise-like "creature," Louis Couffignal. Mac-a with a talent for party tricks. streamlined network of wires, Her ancestors were two bat- valves and flashing neon lights tery-powered tortoime," which
work can
out
one hour“ in startled scientists year ago by problems (from simple suma to the realistic way they moved Einstein algebra) which if done
room darkened
about
a
in
by human hands, would cover a search of light.
The behaviour of the new pile of foolscap sheets as high
as the Eiffel Tower. robat is frighteningly lifelike.
BED BUG consists of only a few
She
ingeniously connected electrical The Bed Bug, No, 4 robot, is parts mounted on a tricycle on "animal" built by America's undercarriage, but sho
can 50-year-old Professor Norbert lears by experience like a dog, Wiener. This one is a tempera- and remember her lessons, mental type.
Show a hungry dog a plece of If its "brain" is mechanically meat and fis mouth frame disturbed it develops an uncon- diately waters. Whistle each trollable tremble.
Eventually the dog's mouth will water at the sound of the whistle alone. Cora's "brain" can associate ideas in the same wny.
human
by
brain
..
time you give the meat, and the The tremor experienced dog's brain
will associate the people with Parkinson's Disease whistle with the appearance of and other nervous disorders is food.
much the same, says Wiener.
Both the Bed Bug and Cora The are all handsome, dis
show typical neurotic behaviour tinguished looking men in fault-
hysterical panic or depressive The buffet
sulkiness-if the components of less evening dress. table is laid with horse meat
their built-in brains come into turned into prime roast beef, a When Cora's inventor, Bristol conflict, lump of stale cod turned into a brain-expert
The doctors at the conference Dr Grey Walter, smoked salmon;
heel of flashes an electric torch, her expect machines like these two mouldy cheese has become alight-sensitive eye picks up the to provide a new insight into ripe Stilton.
beam and she moves towards the causes of Hand round the glasses of it,
troubles. which sound WAVES
If he whistles she takes no paranin
CARLOS A: This is a good idea so far ing by-elections to persuade have turned into cocktails. Lis-notice at arst. But after 20 ex-
homeless, Bat fooled
Now this ten to your imaginary witty reperiences in which the whistle as your wife and family are some
robot 'chess-player concerned. Tell them to "enjoy drudge in a fish queue that she
marks and their imaginary is quickly followd by the dash from Spain, machine No. 5, is a When I the winter" by keeping out in is a lucky woman with a good
witty replics.
of the torch Cora responds to strictly honest type,
cheated in Then open the bottle of spark-the whistle alone..
a move I made on the fresh air all day, except on Income and a town house in a Sunday, when your dinner must fashionable London square,
ling dish water (now cham- Robot No. 2 15-
his brown and silver chequer- be cooked. This is your only All the period furniture will pagne) and watch the surprise!
board Carlos objected by flash- chance of eating most of the
When the on their faces as they take the
ing a light. the first sip....
Mary
After flu-resisting meat ration. More be imaginary, too,
I had cheated three drudge looks in the mirror,
Yes, they do look a bit mur-type with a logical approach to times he refused to play with day while you are in your warm is young and beautiful. over, if your family is out all hypnotist will persuade her she
Her prised, don't they? Are you sure life.
me any more. bound wave machine offee, you will be saving fuel lovely figure will be clothed in your and
avolding the worry of the the latest daring evening model (nome model) worked properly?
of home heating, even though she is as naked as high cost Worry lowers body resistance the king in the fairy tale. and leaves li unguarded against infection.
A sailing yacht, a radio,
And lots of lovely things,
Q: ATC good?
vitamin
pills any
I might have bought
farm
a dairy
With everything complete
If money earned had not been
spent On nuts I'll never eat.
1 they should start
scheme
another
To spend my hard-earned pelt I'll get into the Government
And run the scheme myself;
Oh, then I'll have my motor-car
With shining wheels wings,
Switch
the on
Imaginary
Are you sure? Maybe it's dish water
after all. Maybe your guests are real after all.
And heavens no wonder they look surprised. And embarrass- cd, too.
Maybe....why, maybe, ma-
(London Express Service)
A Not for you. All the vitamin's necessary to bodily lights, madam. Your imaginary dam, you're naked after all. health will be found in the guests are arriving. family rations you are eating, and a good lunch in the City six times a week. If you think: your family need them your doctor will provide prescrip-| tions for nothing.
Q: Are inoculations worth while?
A: They were worth while to me when I could charge, for
and them. Under the National Health Service they are no good to anybody, unless you want to try a free experiment on your wife.
My little house, my dairy farm,
And lots of lovely things.
How to avoid flutions,
B
FILM MEN SHOUT
FOR
STARS
From NEWELL ROGERS
NEW YORK.
it whi Tomorrow
ever before.", -
be Worśc
PRESIDENT TRUMAN does
not really want to stand for a third term, says White House reporter Edward Folllard. What he would really like to do would
ARE the stare over Holly a un ser Q: Suppose, after all precau-
wood growing old and building on a greater scale than pet flu?
dollar-pale? A: Stay in bed and make as much fuss as possible. And don't Yes, comes a cry out of ELOW, Dr Gubbins, famous worry about feeling too ill to the film capital's darkness, Fleet Street quack, answerd make that early morning trip And it says that new star some questions on how to avoid to the lorder. A heavy dict Influenza.
when you are sick only makes light, star bright, must be Question: In view of the
gin to twinkle quickly or shortage of meat, what sort of Q: Suppose my wife gets fu? box-office dollars will food should I eat to build up
nearest dwindle still more. body resistance?
Answer: Sturgeon, sole, chic- pheasant, partridge, guaii,
ken, turkey, b, caviar, pate
de fois gras.
If these are un-
tough age and a
It's you or the
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pin of the family, avoid flu? And the children?
A: You will get all the early aced morning exercise you creeping down the stairs while your family is asleep, tip-toeing through the kitchen and picking
you worse.
A: Move Inlo the
hotel.
A
Make believe
world
be to take a long rest and be a Senator again. But before de- elding he will consult an Im- portant unpald adviser-Mrs Truman.
Brains (of the studio chicls) must produce
beauty new quickly.
PRIVATE
cups
COMMIS-
for
MARY is a steady,
sensible
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
PICTURES of children, such as this, are universal favourites with camera usore. By Including the wheelbarrow and toy In this picture, the photographer has increased its interest and). appoal.
last summer,
THE MARITIME BION is not convinced there is The top five male stars, ac going to be a war, Although 50 obtainable. eat all the fat you
cording to a poll, are James new fast freighters are being can. Get up early and devour
Stewart, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, launched to meet any submarine the family ration of bacon, but-
John Wayne, and Clifton Webb. menace, they will be called not ter, margarine, and eggs be-
Victory or Liberty ships but fore your wife and children are
SCIENTIST (bless 'em all) All are over 45.
But what Hollywood really Mariners. awake. Remember this i
has discovered n way of and a tough country. turning cheap drinks into viat- wants is youthful female beauty. the top actresses
INDUSTRY is to into For nine of age wines, and new wine the family, big boy.
will never see 40 again! Jona be given the job of building new Q: How can mother, the unch old, by sound waves.
Marlene
new defence Dietrich, cities around Crawford, So it won't be long now be-Grads Stanwyck,
Barbara
Government Claudette factories. The
What Do You Shoot? fore old eggs, by a reverse pro-Colbert, Gertrudo Lawrence, wants to spend over £1,000 A: As they also need body- cess, are turned into new lald Greer Garson, Bette Davis, Irene million to finance housing building fat, leave them the eggs, ewe mutton Into prime
the workers. and Gloria Swanson. fizzy Dure
Much of it will PECAUSE most people tend to most populat, with mountains ration of lard. If they complain, Canterbury lamb, and
Mariene and Gloria are grand- be in new cltles under the plan shoot the same subjects, trailing behind. tell them about the Eskimos lemonade into Old Tokay.
to disperse defence industries you'll probably be interested in who eat candle grease and never In the future world of make mothers.
When it comes to subject matter, The belleve
starlight inland. call for fresh
a survey one of the big photo- people as might be expected- nothing will be real. get flu,
companies conducted Q: Will early morning exer- Few of us but seledtists and comes from a film trade paper,
HEALTH OFFICERS graphic
run way out in front. Over claca help?
administrators will know what the Hollywood Reporter.
saloon keepers at
two-thirds of all maps viewed even It says: "Why are so many wheedled
The object of the survey was included people in them.. And we're eating, drinking, or doing.
pictures being held up in pro- Hackensack, New Jersey, Into
Lack of star names, trying the experiment of cerving to find out what subjects plc- the greatest proportion of peo- When alchemists have made duction?
for one ture-takers seemed to prefer ple were children in the "mall is short of beer in paper banquets out of firewood and Every big studio
afternoon. Patrons will have and where they made most of fry class.
the their platures. Thousands of ane clothes out of waste paper, stars.
So many complain colour transparencies and prints. One of the surprising things,
were studied, grouped in classes, however, was how many m
-shooters" "Milod to take advantage these were colour sourse, that of simple tricks for picturing
shots. Don't
children. Over half the
pic- discount the figures on that tures of children simply show score. Camera habits are pretty ed a little child alone not play. much similar, whether the Ing, not engaged in aby activity, camera is loaded with colour not with a toy or a pet. And it film or with black-and-white, was not in
To this
group but Alm. It's good, bet that a among the 20 percent that ple survey of black-and-white tured a child with a toy or pet- printa would result in about that the best shots were found.. The same Agured,
Or pictures without people. As for the Agures, they turn- iardscapes and scentes were in ed up a number of interesting the majority. Flowers, plants, facts. For one thing, about 40 trees, and shots of people's percent of all pictures aro taken homes were other popular sub- at home which ought to con- joots, All in all the survey vince you that you don't need seemed to show a lot of variety. to wander afield for subject Enought to make. You ask your- matter. More than 10 percent, self how your own subject 100, were taken in, places near matter matches up with other home-in - parks, 2002, or garw people's. dens. Among vacation shots, beach and lake scenes were
in the larder.
Q: What about hardening the body against infection?"
the hypnotist will come into his "Only half a dozen men and to put up with it, say own. He will be engaged by a an equal number of giris mean publicans. vote-catching Government dur-anything at the box office today. of lipstick smears on the glasses,
POP
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