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The 'Naked
Sitting
On The Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"Tite Government polley in designed to encourage the em ployment of older workers 10 The maxlinum extent, although It is true-that-earisings-over-R certain level penalise people in receipt of pensions."Mr Y. Lee, Parliamentary Secretary, Alinia try of Labour.
G
BANDAD sits in the
old armchair
(The clock strikes ten in the hall)
He's tired of scratching his
old, old head
And thinks of nothing at
all;
Soon he will knock out his old,
old pipe
And dream of the days-now
dead
Goddess'
Claims More Victims
By GWYN LEWIS
HAVE been given the first full ac- count of the disaster that overtook three Englishmen climbing the Hima- the layan mountain Nanga Parbat "Naked Goddess."
The three young men, brought to- gether while soldiering in India, resolved after the war to go back to explore one of the least-known regions in the world.
They planned to spend a year sur- veying an area nearly as large as Wales that lies among the Karakoram mountains in the most northerly corner of Pakistan. From this barren region, sparsely inhabited by nomads and their Blocks of sheep and goats, only one has returned,
His companions were lost either In an avalanche or by falling into a crevasse on the slopes of Nanga Parbat. Its height is 26,62011. Mr Richard Michael Waring Marsh, whose home is in Hertfordshire, is the sole survivor. He is 24.
His companions were William Henry Crace. the same age, of Blakeney, Holt, Norfolk, and James-Whittaker Thornley of Southport, Lan- cashire, who was 27.
It had not originally been intended to climb the "Naked Goddess." But other plane had to be abandoned when permission to remain in the Karakoram territory was withdrawn by the Pakistan Government.
The three men decided that rather than re- turn home at once they would explore the mountain, which is the seventh highest in the world.
No man has yet succeeded in climbing to its summit. It has claimed the lives of more climbers than any other Himalayan peak.
The three explorers and four Sherpa porters established their Base Camp-a hut and tents at an altitude of 12,500 feet by Novem- ber 11 last.
They were at this height or above it for the next six weeks, enduring bliz- zards,
THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
Rh avalan-
ches, and in- truse cold.
The porters refused to go beyond Camp 1, which พาร established
ch
PICHARD MARSH 204 Out
{wo friends explore the moonquered “ Naked Goddess" moštala (top ploture). He was forced
friends to turn back. Els went on. They died. The Naked Goddess " modniais
remained conquered.
a glacier a 14,050ft.
They poke of their relatives
who had died on the mountain and of its terrible reputation.
moving strongly. He saw them stop and pitch a tent,
THE 'NAKED GODDESS' MOUNTAIN
THE SPOT_WHERE
TWO MEN DIED
One. Soft now reduced
gress to 150ft, an hour.
The struggle was continued
When an old, old man couid rest
his bones
All day on his old, old bed -
When grey dawn breaks off the
old, old world The old, old man will rise To rub the pains from his old,
old legs
And sleep from his old, old His old, old wife in her old, old
cycs;
shawl,
Her none red, red with cold, Will brew. hot tea in the old
emcked pot- The bell at the, works has
tolled.
pub habits, party manners, and history before being let loose en the populace.
Here-are-a-few-points-on- history probably not included in the lectures:-
Known English history, as dis- tinct from British history, began when Julius Caesar landed in
56 B.C. at Walmer. Kent. As
I live within a mile of the land- ing beach and know what it's like when an cast wind's blow- ing I have often wondered why he didn't pack up at once and go right back to Rome. Clock in, clock in, clock in, old The local Home Guard op-
posing-him-(known-as-Ancient- "Old man, don't-loiter-thero;Brkons) were half-naked Welsh- Hard work is good for old, old men, who would have sent him- packing anyway if they had not men; Old man, don't stand and been obliged to fight trained men in armour with flint axes.
man
store.
We can't afford to keep old men
On pensions all their lives; Old men inust learn to keep
themselves
And keep tholr old, old wives.
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Caesar drove the Welshmen Clock out, clock out, clock out into Wales. Two thousand
old man,
years
their later they had Take this, your' weekly wsg"; revenge by sending a lot of You say you're more than Welsh politicians into England.
elghty-four?
Why, bless you, that's no age. There's no old fool like an old,
old fool,
There's one born every day: The more you earn you old, old
fool
The less the State will pay.
How to keep slim
SOMETHING the cager public
Hundreds of years later the Norsemen arrived. They bod the silly names like Egghead Bald, and Baldhead the Egg. wore silly hats with wings at cach side to hide their egg heads, and were usually drunk.
Still later William the Con- querer arrived, knocked the egg Beads for six while they were
(tossing back
wassalling
has been awaliing a long quart), divided up the country time can now be published. It among his court crawlers, who began the fine old English family nonsense, and were the first English snobs.
Gubbins,
is the advice of Dr notorious Fleet-street quack, on how to keep slim.
The most obvious and cheapest way to keep slim is to starve yourself to death.
(this method does not apprai, cut out of your dict broad,
cheese,
milk, potatoes,
Prominent figures in English
bacon, butter, rice pudding, and history after that were King was forced to sign anything else you fancy. Assum John, who
Ing you are a housewife who the Magna Carta and started the does not cat out you will then House of Lords; Richard Lion be left with nothing but your Heart, who knew a lot of chaps weekly meat ration, which will who were tired of their wives, on crusades be much the same as starving too, and led them
to Palestine; Henry the Eighth, to death.
who was a lady killer in more senses than one; uces Euza- Eliza- beth, who gave us an early government by
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Don't guip this eight penny- worth of meat in one day. Re- warning. member there are seven days women by chopping off the heads
into of personable chaps who in a week. Cut the meat seven lay pieces and, as variety-make_pass at her,
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is the spice of life, roast a little Cromwell, who chopped bit in a slow oven one day, put head of Charles I. because he another bit in a casserole the had no respect for the Parlia pronext, and make a miniature mont we admiro so much today; (1st, 2nd day clutch of Georges stew in an egg cup the after.
and 3rd), who made remarks to amuse a BBC Busy women could roast two allly enough the following day in 40 degrees portions together, eating one half studio audience;----and-Queen- vi frost and then with the hot on Monday and the rest Victoria, best remembered for weather worsening, they realised cold on Tuesday, being careful a tough social outlook and say- they could not hope to reach to resist a temptation to swallow ing "We are not amused." the spot where Crace and the lot on Monday.
Considering she was expected Thomley had last been seen, for
By the end of the month you to read Gladstone's speeches, __another_four or five days,
will have lost two or three stones which sometimes. lasted six and look pretty ropey. You will hours in the House of Com- also be half mad with hunger- mons, she hadn't much to laugh
Frostbite would have crippled "them" by "then.
Reluctantly Marsh decided to retum to Base Camp.
at.
History lesson Next week boys, watch out
He then sent his head porter AMERICAN have
In-England
back to an Army unit 65 miles
for some Valuable advice on troops stationed British pub habits and party
been manners.
-(London Express Service)
away with news of what had lectured for six days on British happened.
Crace and Thornley would by then be without food according
to his calculations.
picked An officer and ten
arrived a few Just when preparations had volunteers who been completed it was discovered days later said conditions made that the only remaining Primus a search impossible and that it The next three days were ine, stove would not work. As It would probably not be feasible but Marsh could see only the would have been impossible to to attempt it until May or June. tent with no signs of movement. have gone without it Marsh had
Aircraft were called in, and So the three men were left
19,000 alone living in two tents in
There was a day-long blizzard to walk 100 miles to and from though Marsh, flying at
feet, was able to guide the pllot which they cooked on a Primus and on the following day which a village for another.
to the exact spot where he had slove. Their staple diet was was fine nothing could be seen
Sive days were lost through last seen his companions no sign pemmican, a kind of dried meat of the tent.
this mishap.
of life or tent could be seen. kinned they had also
feared it had been
Marsh did not finally leave tongue, biscuits, chocolate, and swept away by an avalanche. Then Marsh and twe porters shortbread. They drunk tea and He spent the next day preparing set out from Base Camp. They the mountain until he had made
two more flights. for a search.
took six hours to reach Camp
But
сосов,
During the long nights they: huddled over a volume of Shakespeare's plays, and "amid howling wind and the occasional thunder of an avalanche per- formed "Macbeth." Sometimes
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Five days were spent weeking a route to take them higher the mountain to set up Camp 3."
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Marsh
SEC
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Ceylon and Indonesia are
American resisting
proposals
On November 18 Marsh had for lower rubber prices.
to go back to Base Camp be-
--(London Express eroice)
INFORMATION
By MERCURY ·
British estimates are. atil that Russia alma at a 1,000- submarino fleet.
Mr Grim Cheated Of Gloom
A
From Newell Rogers
New York.
Before that he was an honours
MERICA'S Mr. Grim has student in architecture. So he studied architecture again, hired got a nasty shock.
a tutor, arit got a licence to For months he has groused practise. He got a partnership over expected shortages because offer from an old classmate.
Luck- of Korea and rearmament. Hie: For 12 of the high-pressure would not get his new car, the years in the soap business,
the enlarged man says, he had to take sleeping new TV with screen, or all the white shirts he pulls regularly. Now architect Luckman enjoys pill-less natural wants.
Now, he learns that he can sleep. And he can say: "I re- have them all and rearmament, cognise my three sons when 1
get home," In January, Detroit turned out
100.
manoeuvres in the Mediter- 620,000 cars and lorries-four
raneon,
And already the partners have £10,000,000 worth of business, It's fun climbing back.
cause frost-bitten feet made him Mr Anthony Eden is con- have taken place in Madrid. has reviewed Its plana for and black markets, retallers Sunday night broadcast.
a hindrance, He expected hla vinced after his recent visit to two friends would join him with-Germany that the need to arm
urgent
in
a few days. But they went German
unlis is overdue and
on up.
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percent above Jamiary 1950,
A Chicago manufacturer.
HÁLF AN HOUR of Miss turned out four times as many Nabas Pasha, Premier,
Egyptian eta last month as in Janu Tallulah Bankhead's time is now is expected to visit
worth £3,18. For that price a London soon for talks on the 17 a year ago.
Shops bulgo with white shirts national radio network will sell 1930. Anglo-Egyptian treaty.
and
you can buy them for one an advertiser the fight to have his wares, mentioned during one Preliminary talks on lease-
third less. land of U.S. arina for Spain The Turkish Government!
anticipation of shortages half-hour of Miss Bankhead's
The network calls her “Every moblitsation and civil went on the greater buying body's Darling," because millions defence in the event of emer-spree in history. The shops are of tinned Argentine
hear her coll Salca
everyone on her Tull of stocke: And the Govern- mcat to the United States Bency.
ment has slappet
controls on programme "darling" ench Sun- amount to 24,000 tons monthly.
sell so day. She is radio's First Lady Marsh followed their movi
Fuller convertibility of ster credit, so they canhot ments through field glasses, He Mr Bevin is shown
log has been discuamod at the freely as on the never-never today. saw them day by day carrying orders from America in a new
THE FIRST BRITON, 20- In Britain, a return to pointe Bydney conference of overecos plan. food and equipment to new Moscow play called "Junior
Baya one shop head: "We face BOETIES Linged hanks with. Mr C. F. Cobbold, camps until they had reached a Partner Strikers force him to foods I considered by produ- Governor of the Bank
of a rool selling job. We have got year-old Liverpool girl, is down with New York,-fu. So are 838 to get out and hustle." change his mind.
Free-enterprise industry, with GIs at nearby Fort Dix. It is
beginning to be an epidemię.. Ita expanding productive power has cheated Mr Grim out of FIRE CHIEF Edwin Barber took the fire to his belgudo at IT'S TOUGH at the top, but Watch Hill, Thode Island. 1: if tougher to fall from a was under the bonnet of his car, £107,000-year job at the top.. A TRAP to outch members of cultivation has What does a man do thent an international diamond smug Chled shortages are likely to been intensifed in Rumda as a Worty-one-your-old Charles ging ring has falled. For thres Two Soviet divisions bave te tmned meat, fish and fruik, mess, of producing synthetic Edman, who lost the pre- wacks oficiale best marc
mocrat, their ‚ amoyed', 'to: the “Yugoslav There is already a big run on rubber. frontier of Hungary, replein the So far no decision has
height of 10,000.
On December 31 Marsh had what
his last prove
They were them. glimpse of
was to
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Production of TV sets agrood
Bervices demands and fin Greece to help her recovery, plate shortage are forcing can being restricted in the US to austerity.
ning-firms to turn down big make way for defence; produc-: More raising, fruit and orders from the grocery trade. tion. tobacco from Greece will be in Brillats shops this year, NE
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