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To the Art American who does not tell me that they pull little trailers my size at the back of their trailers 'way home in the Statés.
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To the lady who, like most people, expected to meet an old, bearded glant and exclaimed when introduced "What I YOU'RE Giles? Why, I thought you were only the driver.""
NUCLEAR
To the first publican who docan't remind me that nearly all London editors originally came from Manchester, Wallasey, Southport, and all stations north.
'London Exprèss Service
FISSION
IN THE FRONT LINE
Washington.
ROBABLY the most Important place in Washington these days is the pleasant marble building
looking which up to three months
ago
By William Hardcastle
described itself over which have been put into the hydrogen bomb's target its portico us the "Public tactical bomb Health Building."
spread depth-is not generally accepted here. Tre more favour- ed theory is that Russia, having developed an effective plutonium .its bomb, is concentrating all efforis on building up a stock- pile .of those weapons 39 rapidly as possible,
and make is obvious and horrible. possible to construct an atomic charge of such a size that it can be installed in an artillery the same sort of job that was shell or a guided missile. It is done at Hiroshima, but more "flexibility" of her atomic believed that an atomie artillery effectively. It is the "tacticalTM artillery shell may
been bombs, the atomic already have completed and that the guided shells, the atomle guided missiles
brought have.
nucléar missile warhend 19 merely
ission to the front line. and awaiting development of a fair degree of accuracy in its rocket
If that is true, however, it The "standard" bomb can do for the time being, is lagging could mean that Russla, at least
for behind Americo In
It might more sultably bo described as the "Public Death" building. For today it houses the U.S. Atomic Energy Com- mission, manager of the largest single industrial enterprise OR the
face of the earth guardian of the western peace, most important asset in the vehicle; cold-to-tcpid-to-hot war How going on against international Communism.
All current, information in dicates that that asset is being im- skilfully husbanded and
that
A whole division in close formation could be pulverised key by one of those missiles,
3. The "standard" bomb, This is still the most important fortifications could be bombed weapon in America's atomic out with a single blow, arsenal, though it is at least six times more powerful thon weapon dropped on Hiroshima,
tite
Atomic mine
arsenal.
The change of pace in America's atomic programme --- shifting of emphasia thoroughly away from peacetime purposes -k symbolised in the change In the Atomic Energy Opm- mission's top management.
David Lilienthal, a liberal- minded missionary whose nature was to turn away from the more horrible
atomic aspects of A cipated shortly the testing chances of a great new source further development is anti- energy and pin his hope to the
of of the first underground explosion of peacetime power, managed which holds out the possibility the vast project in the im- of placing a deadly sort of mediate postwar years. 4. The hydrogen bomb. To atomic mine in the path of an
Today Gordon Bean, a firm- the regret of many sensitive advancing army.
lipped, bespectacled business people, it now appears almost Whether Russia plans, any- certain that a hydrogen bomb thing like this is not known here. man, almost the last type of the Russian atomic
will ex-
pro- Indeed, the be successfully
great mystery of American "captains of industry," plosion, detected in September duced. Omcial information the whole Russian programme is running li of 1940.
is sparse, but the guarded words is the fact that only one Soviet about the moral that have already been spoken atomic explosion has been de- atomic energy
proved. There can be no au- In other words it will generate thoritative estimate of the lead an explosion equivalent to which America still holds over something like 120,000 tops Russia in the atomic arms ruce. TNT; But, if it is not any greater, it is almost certainly still as wide as the gap it used to ba im mediately after the first and only one known to the Western
powers
Since that time Americon alomic development has mode
What he thinks
aspect of
I not known,
on the subject indicate that a tected by Western monitors. so But it is generally accepted "trigger mechanism that could for. If there had been others,
ignite" the key element called experts here are confident that that he is running the show in the best tradition of America's Tritium is already near per they would have been noted.
industrial history. fection.
The most optimistic
There is no doubt that Mr A new
factor of flexibility clusion that Russian develop- therefore been Introduced ment is still highly primitive Bean is the right man at the atomic warfare, Thu and hot in a state to stage wide right job for these grim days.
impressive advancement. To day more money is being spent on atomic weapons research. production and development in one year than during the whole wartime construction phase of has the so-called Manhattan Project, into
Test explosions
TEST explosions are now being
staged at the rate of at least one a month a fact made possible by the "comfortable" size of the U.S. stockpile mado necessary by the
innovations that are be tinuing ing developed.
Of course,
a mass
and
CON-
of
сола
RED (Skelton's) PLAN
OR HOW TO LIVE THE SIMPLE LIFE ON £40,000 A YEAR OR SO
month ago produced his fadio show; his office staff of eight, who handle the fan mall and the business letters; Bo Roos, in show, business so for his
manager, who investa his hab persuaded any sponsor to
zulis .his and buys money, guarantee to back a name or a stocks and shares, and checks show for us for as seven years the profit-and-loss accounts of with bright red hair ahead,
hia
and businesses
assorted cavorting around London in
other at home and in the
IF
the picture America's atomic stockpile being
of big black shapes all capable of wiping out n fair-sized city, is no longer man necurate The US. is on the way to developing a "family of bomby of assorted shapes and
sizes and purposes.
There are four leading mem- bers of this family:
on
However, it can be
else New York. some time this summer you chance upon
Says
+
Skelton never rests. He 5 studio. outlandish clothes, striking always "en." The divorce com wild poses, shooting off im- plaint filed by his first wife
Roos, who has been promptu jokes at passers- alleged that he made her un- with him for years, "Don't bo fooled by the dopey by don't be surprised. happy by continually cutting ever
things Red does. He's a shrewd This will be Red Skelton, up" at home.
operator, a thinking man." His getting ready for television.
pranks have included keeping a Polar bear cub in the That thinking has paid, is bath-room and teaching his not in dispute. Today Skelton
wwww
1. The so-called "tactical" bomb, which is estimated to have something like one half
The some sort of thing has the explosive power of the been going on for weeks now original weapons dropped at Sitelton's beautiful 14-room Japan.
suburban house in Bel Air, Hollywood It starts early in bedtime, Mea with bright lights the day, and never stops until and film cameras follow Skelton wherever he goes, record his every move and show it all back to him later.
wrapped up in a comparatively light and tidy "package" and can be delivered by one-engined carrler-based aircraft or even by an ordinary tactical fighter bomber;..
2. The "warhead" bomb. This utilises the techniques
Sola Agents:
GILMAN & COMPANY LTD;
"Ah wish you'd take off dem
Day after day between now and October, wherever to is --and that Includes a trip to London-Skelton will be think- ing TV, practising and rehears
throwing up new ideas," throwing out old ones, Ho wants to be not just a hit but 4 milestone in a new entertain- mont medium. Possibly his
SKELTON AND FAMILY.
4aletter from New Delhi:
SUMMER AND THE PUKKA SAHIB
By ALWYN
New Delhi.
TEBBIT
Well, Sardor Baldev Singh was
Government
AMONG the foreign popu- to the Kashmiring a pep-talk lation Hving in a tropical Srinagar, Kashmir's capital, 5,000 country it is the little feet up and surrounded by moun- The pins which range up to 23,000 things that matter..
fect. possibility of a shortage of your favourite cigarette, or Sardar is reported to have suld: In the course of the speech the the impossibility of a girl "At all costa India will protect being able to get her favour. Kashmir. We have already sent ite brand of lipstick, as our army; we have sent our air sumes much greater impor- force and, by heaven, if the need arises we will send the tance than a major political navy." speech unless politics happen to be your job.
1
Cost of living
Bua dhin cost of living besiness At the moment: Delhi is
We can put is deadly serious. divided-at least the foreign up with the rise of £1 a month population is. The division is in our income tax, the Bd. on a normal for the lime of year, and tin of fifty cigarettes, 2d. a gallon is between those who are going on petrol-now. 49. 6d.; but on a away to the hills for the summer, major item of our diet, no! and the unfortunates who forced to stay behind.
010
-
the
For
well-known brands it has now gone up to 43s, a a bottle, and next month Delhi is to have a
The "going away" crowd are sales tax-purchase tax 10 you
and that means a further rise of anxiously scanning the daily 15, od a bottle. However, in newspapers for any sign of Bombay, because of prohibition, trouble in the favourite spot, it's £6 a bottle. Kashmir. So far the situation
Talking of whisky, there are seems about normal, so tentative arrangements are being made for very few Scotsmen in Delhi. hire of houseboats, trekking Most of them are in Calcutta or the trips into the heart of the Hima Bombay-where the real money
booking of seats on the layas, the overhaul of Ashing is. But occasionally Mr rods and shotguns, and the Lawson, a Scot who is general plane manager for Southeast Asia for which lifts you over the 9,000 one of Britain's "big four" motor test, cloud-wreathed Banihal manufacturers, comes to the, Pass which looks exactly like a capital from his headquarters in
Ceylon, scene from "Lost Horizon."
he drinks my whisky.
And
Ingenious schemes Recently I accidentally poured
him out a lot of (shall we call it The poor stay-at-homes are "Empire"?) whisky, I keep for busy, too, but in a different unsuspecting visitors.
direction. With slide-rules, pen-
Food problem
use
alls and masses of serap paper, Johnny Lawson took one sip, Ingenious schemes for aghting gave a horrible grimace, and sald the heat are being worked out, in all seriousness: "For that and there is much talk of cuble insult, man, when Scotland gets capacity of rooms, temperature her independence, you will be
put ол drop and air flow."
blacklist of very undesirable visitors," A double Real "air conditioning" costs a tot of the "real thing" only went popular alternative, which works back into Scotland's good books, fortune to install and the most a short way to getting myself out at about £50, is to buy a powerful exhaust fan the ones that are used in factories to suck out bad alr-fix it so that the
Like Britain-we rarely fan sucks in instead of sucking out, and then with the aid of a individual names because we contrivance which would do never know whom we may offend
elsc credit to Emmel, of hosepipes India is preoccupied above all and a bag alled
with the problem of food. with wood- chavings which is kept soaked But the problem is heightened with water, the fan is induced here because there are two dis- classes the ment-estors, to suck in a certain amount of tinet cool air,
whe include practically all' foreigners of any nationality, and To cheer us up a little in the the vegetarians, mostly Hindus. present rather depressing atmo-
For the meat-eaters there is sphere of a promised "severe
If summer," and A leap in the almost unlimited food. already enormous cost of living have a gun, or can borrow one. go six miles outside presented to us in the Indian you Budget, there is a new wisecrack Delhi, and most other clits, and in the morning shoot yourself going the rounds of Delhi.
enough duck, Pheasant, quali, deer and what not to last a month, and in the market you can buy anything except. beef-
usual
Butt of joke
can
you
But the poor vegetarians, who
The butt of the joke is, as the cow being sacred,
Sardar Baldev Singh, Indin's good-tempered Defence Minister, who, without any valid mostly live on rice or a peculiar reason, is constantly being credit- wheat cake something like the ed with perfect "Goldwyniems" pancake, are in a bad way--Rot
because I am not vouching for the truth but because of religious prejudice of shortage of money, of this one as I was not in and age-old custom. position to hear it first hand, but here it is.
The arrival of ships bringing
of grain-many
them from As everyone knows, the Kash- Australia-is front-page news. mir problem is more or less But the Indians are a resilient permanently before the United race, and are adepts at throwing Nations, and occasionally the themselves into causes which Indian representative replies in take their minds off. more
unpleasant things.
kind.
Taikoo
icing makes the cake
unprecedented multi-million dogs to hide under the sofa enjoys not only the income of a
dollar seven-year contract with one of America's biggest soap manufacturera is an added in- ducemment.
when he calls "Here comes the pre-Nehru instalment man!" He wears out further.
maharajah, but not exactly small 25 suite a year crawling, climb. chango from blocks of flats and ing and Calling his way through ofice buildings he owns in Los his acis.
Angeles, farmlands outalde, oll
At 37, Skalton is already He can afford to devote him wells and cattle ranches all about as big, a name as any self exclusively to making over the South-Western States.
"Ned
attention to The trivia of actor can get to be. He makes people laugh.
Days
overy day," Kayu in the region of £55,000 overy itving, like running his bome, business time the does a film. *
investing his money, attending Roos, "One of the reasons he's What his new TV contract to the business detalls, writing rich is that he lives simply. He
his letters, ordering his clothes, Isn't a spender." will bring him nobody knows for sure, but reports are that are taken care of by a battery. the gross will be in the neigh of full-time protectors,
bourhood of
Hollywood agrees. After all, Skelton has only two cars, Ho doesn't even own an aeroplane. £3,750,000, fe include: His wife All told, he probably, "doem't which, of course, a logo port Coorgle, whose Jok it is to see live at a rate of more than will go on production costs that he is shaved, and present £40,000 a year, sslarks of his cast, agents, fans ably clothed at all times; his exacly
and, the rest.
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