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BY FREDERICK COOK
love and be loved
-(London Express Service)
Lane that
there is in the Ale a altered folder covering the affairs of a 48-year-old businessman who has proved unusually fractious.
surns
our
very
AT
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WH OI NOG ON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
LONDON. pected to fetch about £100,000,
T the opening of the Show-plece is a pair of mint 1040 one franc French Royal Academy's sum vermilions" catalogued at mer exhibition I admired £750. MR CHURCHILL'S "River Farouk Inherited most of the Todhra, 1951," No. 175 in collection from his father, who the catalogue. I admired- was a knowledgeable philatelist. and I was intrigued..
He has only a superficial knowledge of the subject him- At the preview I had seen self, but hati hoped for high a picture in the same posi- philatelie Honours. tion, with the same title, and As a step towards them he same number in the announced with a blazo catalogue.
publicity a giant stamp exhibi- tion in Cairo for Inst March, But British experts did not give sufficient support. So
the
But different.
the picture itself Was
it
the show
I found that not only had
there been one change, but two.
of
was called off and
to give up
Farouk decided
SHORTLY before I saw the stamp collecting.
picture, Mr Churchill hud swept
into
the Academy smoking a huge cigar, accompanied by his son
Randolph and a detective.
He stopped before the point- ing now hanging in Gallery 3 and explained he had the per mission of the President, SIR GERALD KELLY, to change
it.
He replaced the original pic- ture with another which he pre- ferred of a different section of the same river.
Next morning the * pletures were changed back again.
ATM
Garbo at tennis
T14, GRETA GARBO has taken up tennis seriously. Her coach is "BIG BILL" TILDEN.
Her progres3
her insistence on playing in is impeded by
dark glasses much-desired incognito,
to preserve
Tax in full
her
WROTE recently that there
is no Income tax in the
Did Mr Churchill have second thoughts? Or was it ruled that the Academy's choice must exemption you must live there stand?
Car she loves
Bahamas. But to qualify for
more than half the year and have no British residence or in- come.
Many with holiday homes
TWICE in a week millions of there keep up establishments In Londoners saw QUEEN Britain. Among these aro MARY being driven in the LORD KEMSLEY, LORD familiar high-bullt limousine ILIFFE, LADY BAILLIE. she uses for state occasions. It is now 21 years old. It
built Was
for KING GEORGE V. and is ill Queen Mary's favourite cur.
NEW YORK. IOUL mates for lonely Americans 20°C unerringly picked out
This are fidential application.
"This man," said Miss Lane, York now by a
with an air of faint disapproba- Her affection is such that in mechanised Cupid with a brought together-well, love anks about your sex,
age, tion, "has been with us four
1947 she took delivery of an identical model, green and
black much better scoring record just materialises, inevitably. height, weight, education, re- years. And despite than the old-fashioned type
instead of maroon and black. ligion and marital status, bust efforts is still unmarried. Το join one of her
He has dated, let me see, 138 of Then comes the really per our members and spent simply
DRIVER of the old limousine "friendship centres" you fill tinent inquiries: "Do you untold
Is Queen Mary's head chauffeur, armed with nothing but bow and arrow.
SOUTHGATE, out a questionnaire. "What
on entertaining FREDERICK own property? A car? What them. But he has not married who began his career in tre most You feed into a machine film did you enjoy
is your income? Hobbies? one of them yet. Discouraging!" Royal Household 20 years ago. a card punched with holes. last year?
Physical defects? Health?
One would not have supposed straight-backed but comfortable. These represent your quali- favourite restaurant? Disc
Do
dance? you
Smoke? the reluctant bridegroom's bul There is a duplicate speedometer
of particulars unduly hard to fications and characteristics, jockey? Strip cartoon? How
Mary's
personal Queen . For his future wife he seeks do you take disappoint- your dream
Inspection. Methodist, and one who comes from the Middle West. Beyond finer ments, defeats, reversals?" your defects and
that all he asks is that she be points-and perhaps just a passing reference to your
small in size, neat of aspect, plain and soft-spoken. bank and the sort of
of
romance,
car
What is your
Sliding Scale
THEN you pay the fee, on you drive. The thing goes a sliding scale. A six-
whirrrr.
saya
the
Drink?"
Armed with these details Miss Lane or one of her 12 glamorous assistants (prelly giris, hand- some men) then has a chat with the matrimony-seeker. "We can usually tell in a few minutes without looking at the question- naire," said Miss Lane, "what a person is like
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Beauty No Asset
And out pops a month membership for
Lane's experience, card for a woman matching woman under 30 costs £35.
beauty is no asset to a girl. your tastes
and tempera- Up to 45 it is £53 10s. troduce him to hd who to in- Miss
Plain ones marry faster. She mont with precision.
Women listed as "over 45′′ When a couple believed suit- Kets applications from many (or proved so by Mate- parts of the world, has noted a -It-is-all-so-scientific.-It-is-
are expected to pay £76 10s. able
Men whose expenses are O-Matie") have been lined up sharp increase-Intely from Eng- called the "Mate-o-Matic."
formal introductions follow. The land. swollen by dinner bills and men members are expected, a She found a bride once for "Cupid is my business," entertainment get off much least to take their dales out to the son of a South American
of this more lightly. For them, ir dinner. Usually members report president, a ruler
groom for "an back to the centre machine, amply-built 50- respective of age, there is a
about the English lady who is quite closely first date. New candidates are related to a lord." On her books year-old "friendship centre flat fee of 17 guineas.
promptly produced should the at the moment is a 70-year-old | tycoon" Clara Lane-herself
first not prove up to expecta colonel paying court to Before happily
full lons. acquiring married without
charmer of 82. membership, the prospective benefit of
An average member requires "Mate-o-Matic,"
(World Copyright Reserved.-London con six to eight Introductions. But Express Service.) which had not been thought client must fill out a of in her time. And it is noj overstatement.
Endless Fun
IT is a business that pro-
vides motherly Miss Lane
with endless fun, lots of
Was Setty
Scientists and barristers restage in private a famous murder-and disclose for the first time a story of 'eight double whiskies
work, plenty of headaches too drunk to fight back?
and best of all cures for a headache, an income of around half a dollars a year.
of offices
he understand why such evidente
was not produced," he said.
mon ASTONISHING facts in alcohol shortly before
about the case of died, the report states.
But the prosecution's medi- Stanley Setty, the murdered cal experts did not reveal this London car-dealer
the whose evidence at
trial. The torso was found in the Es. prosecution did not submit it. They may have thought that sex marshes 18 months ago, it would not help their case. are made public for the first time in a medico-legal re- port.
From a suite ornamented with pictures of couples whom she has or ganised into a state of wed- ded bliss she directs 20 "friendship centres" all over America. She is planning six more. Further, she is seriously thinking of open- ing her first in London.
At the trial of Brian Donald Hume, who was charged with the murder and acquitted, medical experts called by the prosecution did not explain how Setly coulîâ have been stabbed five times in the chest without struggling.
The defence counsel's argu- ment that more than one nihn must have been involved in
CH_A_P MAJ
[PPN_CHER COLUMN
flat
Hume admitted dropping Setty's torso into the sea from an aeroplane, and pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.
"Who killed Setty and
the crownstances in which it oc- curred must remain a for speculation," Dr told the meeting.
The additional evidence would only have shown how those responsible for the múr- der were able to do it without causing a struggle.
PRECAUTION
matter Camps
"I hope to see the day,” said this former farm girl from Iowa, "when there is no lonely person forced to An autopsy carried out be sit alone of an evening and fore the trial by Dr Francis E the murder before Selty's body AN EMERGENCY system mourn a mate-less state." In Camps, a Harley-street patho- was deposited at Hume's
of sending. out logist, proved that the stab was not seriously challenged. the past 10 years she has wounds
broadcasts through the were 80 clean-cut
These facts were ongineered some 20,000 that Setty could not havo
disclosed phone wires instead of to
the air is being considured by a privato. marriages. Her clients have moved his body even a frat- by Dr Camps
the Defence Ministry. tion of an inch while
sciantiste, they meeting of doctors,
and barrister, who recon
An enemy might be able to structed the Setty caso after we the signals from 'ordinary
transmitters
• a means guiding in long-range rocket missiles,
included an opera singer, a were being delivered. retired judge, models, show- girls, school-teachers, secre- It also showed that Sotty's the trial. taries by the hundred, doc-arms had not been pinioned
before he was killed.. tors, lawyers; · büsinessmen, architects and even a couple of millionaires.
Dr Keith Simpton, Hame Ofico, pathologist, 4old the
. Evidence disclosed in the meeting that he was perturbed "report" strongly suggesła that that the prosecution :.did - not Betty, may have beer in
a produce the lentific evidence drunken stuper when he was of Sotty's drunken' stato at tha
trial.
murdered.
na
BBC
tele.
over
of
SEVEN FOR SPEED MOST peven-year-old giris
most
Mina Lanes operates on the theory that there is
women, says Swedish scientist Dr P 0. Astrand, who boo nothing mysterious about Terfs carried out by Dr it. When enough, alcohol
had med 110 running females Yard's boon discovered to give a per- varying in age from four to love. It is something that S Holden, Scotland
chiot scientist, showed that feetly good and acceptable ox-" 30. can be promoted. When two setly had drunk eight double planation to the opinions people, with the desiro", to whiskies or their equivalent; both sides, it was difficult to
~(London Express Service.)
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for
Inside the
саг peata nro
In London, she imposes strict speed limit of 15 miles per
hour.
:
For them, no tax relief. They. pay at the full British rate,
Los fortunate. legal hiatus, are those who have
through
both the U.S. and
homes in
Elre.
They must pay income tax twice over.
There is
110 "double tax" between the two agreement countries as there is between the US. and Britain. An agree- ment ratified by the Irish Dail last
year, is now before Con- N ONE of those waiting US. the much- ratification dollared great-granddaughter of JOIN JACOB ASTOR. She married successively two of the "marrying Mdivanis"-brothers PRINCE ALEXIS and PRINCE SERGE.
Big tipping
Her third husband THE AGA KHAN, handleap 12,
is MI SAUNDERSON, took a fancy to 19-year-old ALEXANDER MARIE GIRARDO 1 girl of Castle Saunderson, Eire, He caddie at the Mandelieu golf cannot live there. course, near the Aga Khan's If he furnishes the castle his villa in the South of France.
wife's dollar Income is subject She was decorative; and silent, lo tax twice over. Soon the caddied for him exclu Elvely.
one-
In return for her silent cor- vices the Aga has given her a £700 car (grey with scarlot wheels); a villa of her own (pink stucco, cypress-lined); a acre farm.
Marie werks the farm with her parents. They were farmers, anyway. Occasionally she drives to the club where she works. Not to caddle. For a round of golf of her own.
Stamped out
ING FAROUK'S
So the castle stands emply, Two 'babies'
TARRY-EYED
ballet-dancer
DOREEN TEMPEST is 17 and the baby of the Sadler's Wells company which goes in September for a six-month tour of North America.
The
Tuled "No under-18's will
Doreen will just make it. For she will be 18 in August.
Another 18-year-old will be red-headed KAREN BLISS. daughter ΟΙ composer Sir
K collection stamp dute Biss.
is telling next month, ia **~
-(London Express · Service)
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