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IN
THE LAND
OF STEAKS
Buenos Aires.
The party then swallows a AWN streamed over glass or two of local spirits, and the Rio de la Plata, incessant clanging of the stock- fortunately is broken up by the
River of Silver, which is the to begin,
the broad, rolling yard bell. The market is about colour of mud, as I crossed the great city and made my way to the West Side stock yards of Mataderos.
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At the gateway is a strik- bearded gaucho, with bare feet, long stirrup leathers, and a loose rein, riding дегова, the pатраз,
and the miles of its lanes echo to the bell, the bellowing of the
Now the acres of Mataderos
beasts and the bawling of the buyers.
and others of the biggest meat merchants In the world are here. moving in cavalcade from corral Their buyers, also mounted, are to corral as the slout 1,000lb. steers are sold, 20 to 40 at a time, at a price. that ranges around £10 per head.
On the wing
Messrs. Vestey, Swift, Armour
Prosperous citizens up town, driving in their shin- ing American motor-cara
boulevarda along the
ES DIDDING against merchants beautiful as in Paris, should (lest the several individual bear buyers should agree to carve up the the market and cut the price) are the agents of the Argentine and Meat Producers Corporation.
This is
Government- controlled organisation to protect the poar Argentine rancher against the rich foreign merchants,
brave the muck and the sour stench
of stockyards to come take a good look at him and his horse.
Together, they made one- third of this country's pros- perity and coming power.
The beasts inside the gate of Mataderos made another third. Heaven, which gave the sun, the soil, and the winds and rain, provided the rest.
Stop lively
THILE I was still a mile away I could hear the moos of the second section of the partners. Nearer, there blended with their bellowing salute to the sun the snarts and grunts and squeals of the pig pubile.
The taily on the wail outside the market manager's office an- nounced the state of trade at the turnstiles: cattle, 10,800: pigs, 777, Time: 0.45 am,
In the stockyard, which was etill not yet half-Alled, it was like
getting mixed up in a Korean cavalry charge.
You need to step ilvely to miss the motor-cars in the streets of Buenos Aires, where there are no traffic lights and few traffic cops. In Mataderos you jump for your life to avoid the horse- men.
They came cantering down the tree-lined lanes, lolling on the broad, barrel-like saddles of wool and hide, cracking their whips like pistol shots.
Their horses are as sturdy as bullocks, sure-footed as goats. They turn when a rein is laid on their neck, and they turn on
silver dollar.
The gauchos themselves are a tough and wiry as their steeds. Man and horse are almost a single plece, physically ahd mentally, too. Off his horse, trany a gaucho is a fool.
8 a.m. steak'
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WORRYING ABOUT THE AFFRAY..
The sort of question that cropped up as one anxiously waited for the news
Why did the much-boosted giper-
and olher radio-plotting. devices fall to locate the Affray?
THE problem has been greatly. THE
confused, say the experts, by the number of aunken objects, all of which are recorded by the probing rays. Many of the wrecks in the search area are charted. If the Affray-off its planned wreck free course fouled one of these,
M
WOMAN of the WEEK
By HUGH DUNDAS and now lies alongside or on top of It, the searchers would ignore the echo, supposing it to come from the original object shown on their
maps.
The Affray's course lay close to the war-time convoy route between Portsmouth and the South West ports. This was a favourite hunt-
ing_ground-for-German bombers. Many ships went down in these waterm
Many warplanes, too. For long weeks in the autumn of 1940 the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought it out over the sea between Portland Bill and Start Point.
There must be many, maný bombers and fighters sharing that dark gráva with the Aftray. And each one had helped to confuse the searchers,
—¿London Éxpress-Strolća.)
FLAGSTAD sails through the storm
critics were sharply split into Flagstad fors and againsty tore her againsts, the
to pieces.
Flagsted faced
the 10
Tode # out, re- Turning America in suc-
storm and
cessive years. In
by
Evelyn
Isolde, Then he met her. "She' was very jovial," he reported, surprised and ́_slightly" dis- appointed,
I have seen her, after going through harrowing moments of immola- Brunnhilde's last
in the Twilight of
tion
the
IRONS Gods, laughing inexhaustibly
1949 the trustees of the San Francisco Opera banned her be- cause of protests against her re- cord by the Amerkan Legion,
“Provocative'
time), and setting out to enjoy (she
is ready for a joke at any
hearty champagne supper. She arrives punctually to the minute, throws at rehearsals
no temperaments, tans on her Niagara of a voice like a tap as required.
£1,200 for a single evening's AJESTIC as
the appearance in a skeletly, time- Queen
tabled round of singing in New Mary, York, London, Paris, Barcelona, blonde, Junoesque Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Kirsten Flagstad, reputedly Milan, Saltung. the Anest Wagnerlan Drama and controversy lay. soprano of all time, sailed behind her recent return through a 24-song recital at New York's Metropolitan Opera. the Albert Hall recently, there against bitter opposition She had to fight her way back welcomed back to London from Americans who alleged by wildly enthusiastic that she collaborated with the Naris in Norway during the war. audience.
It started in 1942 when she This month at Covent Garden left the Metropolitan, where she she begins the last Wagner had been a member of the com- season of her career. Fifty-six pany for sbc and a half years,
Most singers spend
many next July 12, Flagstad has de- to go to her timber-merchant
hours dressing for a conceri, cided to take no chances with German-occupied Oslo,
husband, Henry Johansen, Ill in
but not so Flagstad. She gets In an hour or so it is all time's ravages. She means
BUT a few weeks later they ready as quickly as a man and the mirror Last year, never prinks in over. The buyers are back at relinquish her mighty Wagnerian She stayed with him through when the British impresario afterwards, he could afford to the bar, and the heaving, steam-roles while she is stil at the the rest of the war. In 1945 he Rudolf Bing, now general mana dress lavishly. But she is not ing, slithering beasts are being spex of her fame and form. was arrested on a charge of ger of the New
collaboration and the following politan
York Metro- much interested in fashion, al herded off
by the yellk and
Орега, signed "on though the diamonds she wears lashes of the
It was announced a few weeks year he died before he could Flagstad for gauchos to their
the 1991
are by no means unassuming, last round-up.
back that she was retiring from be brought to trial. Mataderos has done its business for the day.
altogether.
that has just ended, his opera
But she
decision was called changed her mind. She will
"provocative." But no antagonism in -At-noon-other-visitors arrive. after alt be heard again at the
stink Very Important personages, New York" "Met," next year Arst come-bacte after the war these, at any rate in the steerage not in Isolde and her other
with an Albert Hall concert of the Argentine.
brates Wagner parts, but in the early in 1947, less exacting Alceste of Gluck. They have
There will be fewer operatie roles, and she will become a mezzo-soprano giving lieder conceris.
come by special Pan-Air plane, flying some 10,000 miles from Toronto, in Canada
splendid
black-and-white Holstein bulls.
10
All of these handsome gentle- men are descended from famous fathers and are themselves each worth about £1,000.
to
She met
A
lifted the ban.
סת
scanon
4
The throat
occupation, there was a terrific the word the critics has entered into a
and
London, where she made her bombs this
there were 10 pickets,
time. Nevertheless, she has not sung HER personal preferences are in Norway since before the war 1 for good food, oatmeal stout, and it is unlikely that she ever
Jenilting and conversation. But although she had a docto win although she returns there ment signed by the Norwegian for a short summer holiday at Bernard Miles, Chief Justice stating that she her house in sea-girt Kristian-
Among her closest friends are
the actor
and had
his wife maintained
"steadfast sand.
producer and patriotic attitude" during the
three children. With them she contract to for her DT- Aise to-do when she went on a nine-formances, and everything about toner as Dido (an: Purcell's
give
20 performances next Sep- city tour of the United States Flagstad is on the granil scule. opera, Dido and Aeneas) in the the same year.
But there never was a prima Mermaid. Theatre which the Plakets outside New York's donna who behaved less like one Miles family are Installing in an en voice is still as fresh Carnegie Hall bawled "Boycott than this buxom roillaking old school hall at the back of as a summer morning.
the Quisling!" while she sang Nordic.
their house in St. John's: Wood; Golden voice it is. Flagstad is there. At Philadelphia, fighting A colleague confessed that he Her only fee-free lodging and one of the world's wealthiest broke out and stink-bombs flew had wept only twice in 10 two pints of stout daily, musicians paid anything up to inside the concert hall. The years, both times at Flogstad's
She is rich
lars apiece (340), to fly them
It has coat at least 1,000 dol-YET the quality of that gold-
here over America, the Indies and the Andes,
Their fight took them close on three days, due to fog over the Amazon jungle.
"What happens if they get restive at 12,000ft.7" I asked the gental Canadian erew master.,
"Oh, easy," he said. "We just go up another few thousand feel, and then the young fellers sorta got short of breath and want to lie down in the hay."
Millions of 'em
LIVERY other week such
The
another "bull flight" lands on this giant airfield, probably the largest in the world. ranchers reckon that it is no dearer and much safer than shipping the animals by month-long sea voyage.
No doubt they know their own business best. And cattle, with corn, is the Argentine's own, and best, business.
a
IF I HAVE
TO BUILD
AN
ARK
Taking the British weather as the theme this week for his PRIVATE FESTIVAL, BERNARD WICKSTEED reports
N view of the fact that it of Weights and Measures after Inspectors, and inspectors look. ing for rables, anthrax, łowi is going to go on raining us. 10,000,000
ilcences,
There urc only people in this rich, vast land,
It seemed a jolly good idea at first, but when we looked into it there were a number of dim- culties about ark building today
YES, madam, the gaucho which is five times the size of
wears # wide, black France, and as fertile. It raisesing an ark. sombrero, a bright-coloured 40,000,000 head of cattle, and cleak (poncho), which is really grows 6,000,000 tons of wheat a a blanket with a hole in the year, middle for the head to go through, big plus-four trousers
Perhaps we must add another, stuffed into high leather boots; partner to the man-made clement of the Agrentine's story so far, on his and beside that statue
of the cowboy at the gate of Mataderos But they don't look a bit like set up another of the sower. the American flm stars. These are Gurkhas on horseback.
and a lasso is colled saddle.
At eight o'clock I am eating breakfast with them: a pound of steak and a pint of beer, total price-1s. 3d. oplece,
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Gorgonzola.. Cheddar D.CL. Yeast
[IRO129_EN'T
$2.10 per tb.
(818. Lancer) 10 per 1263 tím, 84.00 per ib. $3.00 per lk.
Strawberries 4184 whale, per cli
peřetn.
that Noah didn't encounter.
I
the
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One of the conditions is that she will "let the manage- ment, or any part thereof, look down her throat with a laryngo- scope whenever they need en- couragement."
I is quite a the
throat, Sir Misom Rees, veteran Covent Garden laryn- gologist, said he had seen only one like K. That was Caruso's,
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Dr. PETERSON finds a case of PERSECUTION
·MANIA·
HY do some cows look
Wround with the evil
for ever, the Wicksteed As a matter of fact, there are pest, Colorado beetles, and dog glint in their eyes just as the milk reaches the top of family are thinking of bulld. three kinds of cubit There's
the pail and send the whole tabit, and the legat cubit Noah's creepies thing flying with one kick? Because, say American scien- tifte rescutchers, they mere collection of the psychologically maladjusted.
Bre
animals is going to be a
Two American universities jask. There are have been trying to determine about 80,000 insects and 20,000 if cow psychology affects milk
Hom My sons a little worms alone.
output. Philip and Japhet John hava volunteered for this part of it. Veterinary surgeons at Ohio school of agriculture They reckon they can soon say that every herd has a
creeping thing queen capture "every
cow" and that keen that creepeth on the earth" and competition for higher social they've already started build-standing causes the unsuccess ing up a supply of match-boxes ful ones to become thoroughly with breathing holes in the top. embiltered,
maladjusted and We'll lot the 15,000 different obsessed with persecution fishes look after themselves, but mania. A serious loss of milk there are still 4,000 assorted follows. mammals, 4,000 reptiles, and 15,000 birds,
think we'd better stick to the legal one, don't you? We'll have
THE enough vulgarity when monkeys are aboard without monumental any more from the cublis.
The legal cubit is First of all, 1 suppose we under 22lns, so the size of shall have to go to the Hamp- Noah's Brk was about soft, by alcad Borough Council and get soft, by 56ft. That's enormous, At midnight, while the lights still blazed and the crowds still
the plans passeci, and as they isn't it? It's half the length of milled in the streets
regard it as a dwell the Queen Mary and twice the of the are" sure sprawling capital, I took the road ing within the meaning of the size of Nelson's Victory, to the pampas.
Act, we shall have to get bullding Hence,
Do you think, with a vessel of these dimensions, we'll get ná Al certificate of food worthiness
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Noah's cubits
HIS is going to be discult,
because it
is a private enterprise ark
We have mensured our
Noah's wood
We'll have to got Mr-Moiri-
son to deal with the Belgian At
aloner for Australia),
There is a 20
tree in
Oregon
gopher, The wood is yellow and hard. I bought a brooch mado
MY authorities
lot of correspondence before the that the Americans - call hlatter is soitled,
rio ilic
Minnesota University,
says:
know, they may be built only wood, But where are we they are a prohibited export to a friendly voice and a caress.. NOAH built his ark of gopher. Congo over the gorilla, beruse studies show that cows respond In the proportion of one to every going to go for that? And any lob
Dr William Peterson council ark.
way, what is gopher wood? f's the same with the tor-"Maladjusted coves will sock garden and it isn't big enough cedar or pine. If so, we are in for a permill) and the duck-bul-If they are addressed sofily or Some people think it was tos from the Seychelles (ring the attention of humans to the Colonial Office, Whi, 2800, meet their need for sympathy. for an ark-yard, so wo aball have to get permission to work are soft woods and you have to ment to see the High Commis often
for more trouble, because they ed platypus (make an appoint their noses are stroked they on Primrose Hill or the top of have a licence to import them.
produce satisfactory Hampstead Heath: In either
supplies of milk when other caco I, Imagine there will bo
wise the pail would be almost
Some empty.
cows become through Bad treat- As we have never bulit an of it once for my wife. It costs Mstill be the Board of Trade types which continually kick ferds of cowa tiave criminal MY Job is endless. There will ark before, we'll stick to Noah's dollars, so the Treasury, will be (enfety regulations at sea), the other blueprints. According to these tiresome,
cows because of some the ark was 300 cubita long, 60
Port of London. Authority, the thher emotional conflict or just 'cubits wide, and 80 cubits high. ... And what a' time wo are Ministry of Agriculture (food for theer delight because they
the Ministry were born naturally obstrepercus was wa might get down to the, ofce, wo start getting the of Health
Minnesota
University Danis cosung
animale in Boy! Oh boy! It Import of parrots), the c will be an You do know? It is the dis- come true,
Inspector's dream clesiastical Commissioners, and producing enough lik
The Brethren of Trinity- Hotino which they would be divided tance from the elbow to the Up 20
fighting arrangements
Into, classes corflating of edwa of different Prychologists would then, ry, to rehabilitate the maindjustét,
FREDERICK
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It we only knew, what a cubit going to have with the fspectors for the torohibition of the to form schools for cowl nót
Ask for Reddi-wip Today of the fingers. That's fine, but They Will pour out to Hamp- Mount Araret).
AL THE DAIRY FARM STORES WINDSOR HOUBA LINATI
оп
whose elbow and whose fingerst istead in bus-louds, sanitary, In- Whey, Chat? The rain has Yourz mine, or those of hy den fréectors, livestock, inspectors, stopped? Well, thend goodnem Japhet John). If we dabil det it fillery. Inspectors, tight wel ieve the infpecten tilary. Lhapertory
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