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The man who could not taste or swallow
By
Gerald Scheff
Na London hospital a injuries were no terrible that he 28-year-old Italian in has spent most of his life since
in hospitals. undergoing a series of operations which will enable him to taste and swallow food for the first time in 20
years.
Domenico Bario Was flown to Britain last July.
A Harloy-street surgeon has carried out three opern- tions and he is to have two more. He has been a patient in the Gordon Hospital, Vauxhall Bridge-road, SW, for seven months.
But the 'finest surgical akill and treatment has not cost Domenico a penny-it comes under the National Health Scheme.
Cost £500
His care
and treatment are estimated to have cost the British taxpayer 'more than £500. Surgeon's fees
DOMENICO, the palater
Ho has never tasted food, and never awallowed anything. To keep him alive he has been fed on milk and other liquids
given to him through a rubber tube.
A.
He has had two previous operations, but Italian ‘surgeons could do little.
Free Passage
Then just whee hopes of keeping him, alive were fading a Bellish surgeon. Mr Ronald W. Raven, visited Rome, where Domenico was in nospital,
Mr Raven was invited to examine the young man. After doing so he declared: "I am not sulisfted to leave this boy to die."
He suggested that Domenico could be provided with an artificial oesophagus-the tube which corrico food from the
throat, to the stomach,
Mr Raven agreed to operate in London. A few days Inter Domenico was given a Iree air. passage to Britain.
Now he is progressing so well he is allowed out of hospital daily- between operations. He is studying English
hard, and wishes to
stay on in England and work as a sailor.
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The secrets handed over to the Russians by the atom-scientist Pontecorvo gave Moscow the know-how on the atom-bomb_explosive plutonium,
P
PONTECORVO-
FULL STORY
ROFESSOR BRUNO PONTECORVO, the British atom scien-
BY CHAPMAN
PINCHER
Security chiefs are convinced that through his trusting col- leagues at Harwell-to whom he
BIGLOUCESTER: ARCADE, -
SECOND RECITAL
GERMAINE MOUNIER
(By General Request)
APB
tist who fled to Russia six months ago, was contacted him in Italy when agents in Taly would have also have been able to get in- of Britain's latest an active, fanatical Com- he was on holiday with his show that Pontecorve was so formation
deeply involved in the Com atomic advances. munist throughout the wife and three sons last munist movement there that An Italian-born artist, seven and a half years he August, told him he could he feared persecution on poli- Pontecorvo deceived his fellow-
the British- serve Communism better by
tical grounds.
Two Soviet agents, who A check-up by British was "good old Pontey" he must FRIDAY, 16th MARCH 195]
But hin mbition is to become An artist. Countess Lina Monici,served
in
has befriended him and Canadian atom project, it working on atomic weapons is teaching him to paint can be disclosed today, by a new technique.
in Russia.
He told me: "I love
Security authorities be- When Pontecorvo asked Britain because it has lieve he was in frequent for time to consider the for a paying patient would boen so kind to me-a boy from touch with Russian agents, offer they warned him that, giving them details about unless he reported to Bus- have run into hundreds of an ex-enemy country."
A plastic oesophagus now atomic explosive which his siun agents in Helsinki with- pounds.
reaches from his abdomen to fellow-spy Dr Klaus Fuchs in a week, information Domenico is the son of a an-opening made in the top of did not know.
lite chest. More will be added poor tailor now dead. His after the next operation by Mr mother lives in Pescara and Raven and then skin will be grafted from his legs to cover has little or no money.
[Pescara, on the Adriatic coast, was the scene of fierce fighting in the Italian cam- paign. Kesselring held. up the Allies there for months.
Will soon eat
Doctors expeel that he will soon be able to eat and drink normally. He returns nightly The R. A. F. mashed the with 28 other patients in the to the general word he shares Pescara Dam, which faced the Eighth Ariny, causing a wall of hospital: water to rush on the town and flood behind the German lines.}
scientists so competely that not
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author would especially, like to thank Dr. B. Pontecorre for his continual encouragement and interest shown in this work and Mr. F. Bradley for his very considerable technical assistance, Thanther wishes fugtangan kaubandu
Д
life of a Russian agent was the His approach to the dangerous
exact opposite of that adopted by Fuchs.
TO PROFESSOR PONTECORVD | Granitude ul o Harwelt colleagu
which would automatically because of a
This check-up was never made even Fuchs know he was
misunderstanding Communist. lead to his arrest would be between British and Canadian Pontecorvo was finally or lodged with the British Em- security officials when he first dered to Russia by the bassy in Rome.
joined the atom project-then Kremlin because he de- cided to resign his £30-a- Fuchs told the Russians centred in Montreal-in 1943.
Whereas Fuchs disarmed sue- week job at the Harwell, how to make the mechanism The Comadians thought the
had of an atomic bomb and how British
cleared him. Berks, atom station.
picion by a shrinking shyness to manufacture
British Security flea show that Pontecorvo used suave sociabi- uranium clearance was left to the Cannity to gain confidence. 285 explosive to put in it. dians.
His new post as a pro- fessor at Liverpool Univer-
further his own researches sity, which he accepted to
on cosmic rays, would have The Italian Consul gives him put him completely out of 10s, a week pocket money, but touch with atom defence the opportunity for a new life work and reduced his value skill and the National Health us an underground Com-
munist agent.
When A 2xby of three be ower to British surgical Domenico swallowed the contents of a bottle of caustic soda. His Scheme.
DON'T look
EVE PERRICK On Everybody's Toes
now but ghost right behind us. If we don't watch
there's
A
out we're going to get our- selves caught up in a rew racket and I use the word "racket" in its original sense, meaning a lot of noise.
At any moment this new Transatlantic trend of aping the mannerisms of the **"Twenties" will reach us.
In AMERICA the present pin-up boy of the literary set is the late.. Soots Flizgerald,
die was the writer who became his timea, the chief chronicler of who dubbed the car-splitting era the Jazz Age, lived like the characters in his novels and died ten years ago a forgotten man. But look what's happened.
Fitzgerald is the subject of both a novel (""The Disenchant-
No,
count
The shindig took place two: floors above street-level, yet the atmosphere of a cellar "dive," murky and smoke-laden, soon prevalent.
Undergraduates
was
MRS. PONTECORVO
PONTECORVO
This man who was called by a fellow-scientist a "typical Italian
With bis charming Swedish wife Marianne, who is believed to share his pro-Russian views Pontecarvo...was always-wel- como in the prefab homes of his colleagues.
He was equally popular in the laboratory where he made every effort to be helpful.
His Past
scientific report just publish- od in the Physical Review by a Harwell colleague admow- ledges Pontecorvo's "continual encouragement and interest."
Pontecorvo's past activities have been pieced together by security men carrying out in- quiries in Britain, Canada, the US., France and Italy.
He worked for two years in the Paris laboratory of Professor Joliot Curle, the Communist atom scientist after he fled from Italy in 1936.
But he never knew exactly how the more powerful Mark in bow ties, made.
11. explosive plutonium, is-hot-blooded but harmless” was
To escape the Gestapo when therefore allowed to take
Francs fell in 1940 he went to striped blazers, Oxford baga
leading
part in designing the America to work with Professor (one enterprising male even Pontecorve did. And the U.S. plutonium production plant at Enrico Fermi, another Italian ro managed a racoon coat), under- Intelligence Service has now Chalk River,
fugee atóm scientist. Three years graduettes to those terrible catablished that the only atom
later he joined the Canadian fringe-and-spangle furbelows, bomb yet tested by the Rus- long earrings, longer necklaces, alane contained plutonium.
He was able to get experience atomic project. In Montreal.
Ho became a British citizen in! in handling heavy water and near-blinding
He fooled the security mon during the 18 months he work the other raw materials which 1948 on the basis that he had ed at Harwell, and survived will be used in hydrogen bomb lived five years in Canada. three MLA screenings aimed experiments.
aord surged in.
*
hair-do's
at purging Commmamista sard
Mr Robinson's Jellybabe Kings | fellow-travellers from defence made the appropriate noises | žaboratories. ---bouncy, brassy, and deafen- ing. The dancers jigged and kicked.
me out!
Everyone shouted and stourpod. Bottins flow. But something
Fooled Security
FTER the arrest of Fuchs, was formerly »
German, Pon-
Incking. When it was tecorvo was given six further
all over tho would-be Bright Young Things.
screenings, The nuthorities
ed" by Bus Schulberg) and a reaches London next month. It's poured downstairs, exhausted, were so well antimiled with the
the film version of "Tem-for--with· by Arthur Misoner) Two."
Paradise("The Far Side of
which are heading the best-
results that .be .bonated: "I came through clean on a whia” He."
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Fitzgerald, cumming-up when Before joining Harwell fiction and son-fiction sections, was not surprising that the cult it was all-over, said it was footed the Canadian Mounted
centre of Flaming "borrowed conscious
time---the Youth--OXFORD UNIVERSITY
whole Polico, who scepted him dur- upper thithatation living indikde three-your he worked --should have put on B
Twenties" nighter!
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