THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1951,
Could YOU Work All Night Like Churchill ?
(By A Special Correspondent)
HE prodigious vitality capacity to acquire new know-
of Mr Churchili
con. ledge. tinues to astonish his colleagues on both sides of the House of Commons.
Certainly we should all ke to know the secret of a inan who, in his 77th year, in able to see- through, to its yawning emil, a two-day sitting of Parliament with
The answers so far given are discourging not particularly to the old, though one roup of research workers reached the pesimistic conclusion that it the rate of decline of ability to tearn continued at the 5310 speed through middle ane, it would follow that by the are of eighty the average man's ability to as flesh fuss and
to pla
topt new methods would be
few signs of the wear and eater than that of a child tear which lesser and of eight. younger men show by their irritability, complaints of insomnia, and even by com- plete nervous breakdown.
There is no simple explant- 11on for a phenomeron of this kind. Who can say whether heredity, constitution, upbring Ing, made of life, or chaire plays the greatest part?
HIST
'Aging' at 30
ISTORY provides many examples of brillant men whose "prime of life" extended well into old niet in fact this is quite a ustaal character) tie of the really great,
Solon (who
power at
at
lived to be 80) a Sophocles (who died 89) were at the height of them intellectual
an age when other ·men would be suffering from efle dementia, Michelangelo was still paint
comme
ajstorey
ing his great canvases at eighty- eight. Angl. tex modern times Gladstone on the of his retirement. fium day politics, at the age of eighty- Eve completed his translation of Hortre's Oder,
The o le a ritte here to one of
the musl Important häiden zaurres of mental energy, for Clackstone's favourite form of recreation was turning from one kind of intellectual employment tennather. A versatile mind youthful one, and a lively sense of curiosity may help to
hardening delay that
of the arteries of the brain which is supposed, as old one creeps to put a stop to the ability to
learn.
Matter of glands FORTUNATELY
Mr Chur-
chill, and people, like him, enfound such solatie theories.
is probabic-Indeed, almic certain that to be Herly in ol age is neccssary to
active
Pair
a
ค.
glands Che glands which manufacture adrenaline. cortison: and other powerful chemient rubriances) whether mental #velleres la the product
the *254 c suprarenal activity' is not chan
One of the commonest signs of advancing age is increased Batbollity to faturur. Many people they we the easily becaus
ton quilty disinterested and descuraged. They ofan warry about trifles and are quite un able to relax and enjoy them-
"I take it we can look forward to reading the life story of Sugar Ray Smith in the Sunday papers, eh, Smith ???
You say you'd like a film star
THERS have done it,
Only hot you? Bir
There are the weaker brethren who should take came pa n
the Oppositler, money, the life of Reilly the Lander for he has shown that if a ingaa
(whoever he nuy have krows how to wordt his H
been), and the name up in there is practically no even in elá tu, sa the work beacons. Nice going, no? can de and the responsibility he can accept.
man us
EMP
Well, you'd come 10 Holly- wood, pal, mid you'd buy a place to live in, of course. (Only Hollywood it wouldn't be in because "nobedy". lives here any mure, or rather, only several bhed thousand nobodies).
From
R. M. MacColl's
Hollywood Diary
won't be
the master-bedrooin the only thing that's sunk before you're through),.
The studle will probably lead it to you. They'll act as though they think they're just a bunch of great big raft-hearted slobs.
But they're not, pal, they It suits their book to never are. have you in hock for all that dough. It's going to take you quite a long time to pay it back. Of course, It would be far more sensible if you kept right or less as you used to do buck where you came from-but somehow practically that. ever tries no one
to do, Funny, Isn't it, pal?
For instance, why don't you settle for DA of those lower-
Loadion Express Bervice
to be eh, pal?
There you are, then, ensconcert in the ranch house, pal, with the gning transpalation in the varicus garages.
Better make sure, too, that when you ship off all those ex-
pensive presents
hundreds of
to all those
people, it's the in the light brand of Scotch ense for the studio manager.
Yes, you'll be the easy mark, the set-up, the soft touch. You've got to be.
You'l final another curious thing but here.
Whereas up till ow you've been quite happy living alone (or with fi wife it you're married, pal) in no time at all you're going to find that you've amassed a mob of hungers-on,
'There's good old Bob and and Chuck- Joe and Marvin
heaven knows how they got on the payroll, but there they are. What do they all do, anyway? wouldn't Oh, ce, pul, you want to embarrass Chuck by asking him a thing like that. It's probably something most exential, like being Haison to Your agent's assistant publicity
Ja whut
Now It's starting, now you're really going to learn the hard way just what life is like when you've arrived faughingly known as the top in this business, And oh, brother, are they going to stretch you over the barrell
Nap after lunch OSE who wish to emulate 1. Mr Churchill must keep cut of all ruts, far though i.
An M.G.M, producer I'd been may be confɔdable to jag along in a predetermined direction i
dining with drove me home to ny hotel one night. "It's years is fatal to the fexity of the
since I was last in Hollywood," mind.
he said. mushgly, as he gazed They must train themselves to relax at every convenient oppor-asunt at the unfamiliar streets. woman whe No. pat, you'd have to buy tunky: a can have a spun, steep aft: something in one of the expen- It la surprising how early in, teneb every day, despite great sive places, places like Belut, or life the physteni processes of pchure of work, is not going 1. Beverly Hills, or Brentwood, or
Or, maybe, on living more troubled with nervous break-Pacific Palisades. aging begin, for pote of the bes
down the San Fernando Valley, body
GOWEN issues are worn OLIT
Finally, in childhood.
And perhaps most And would that set you back #pucket! Ye wouldn't have Laboratory tests have shown important of all, they mus:
Du
the dough for it, pal, not when that skills requiring quickness is a wide interests
mum struggle 13 achieve vai saried, at any rate. Komething in whatever diver- stenary Creations they phi --whether be waiting, her tayinx.
racing painting.
"cheaper," doesn't #17); WHA heroughbred, a evin polities.
All right don't look so They may not suvered in thest
A well-known important that elderly, people cvetrations k Mr Chareasay a pretty please, and could insulted; by all means buy the
who lives in the Valley, wanted but they
me fun you have, say, 40,000 or 50,000 Cadillac and the Jaguar.
not long her house repaintet for a down payment You're a big shot now, smackers
the lovely-15-roun-ranch-course, und if a big shot doesn't ako. They came and gave her inaster-bedroom net bit, people are apt to think estimate for Rattle (and unless you watch out, pl, he's shot.
even
of eye, brain and hand begin to fall off after the age of thirty. test of this kind is A simple traching with a stylus the mirra image of verinin figures,
It is, of course, not at ull
will have
shoull be able to perform them fets quickly, but what crientists. have tried to and out is whether airy ken from
WATCH, PAL
WHAT would you do? Why", you'd go to your studio and
slowing of reactions those in- be alle suund with ene foot in with sunkcen
lessening 1
of the the grave,
dicates
The man who vanished
JOSEPH WILBERFORCE
JONEN
MARTIN vanished in
Pall Mall wearing an opera
been
there
have may method behind it.
43
BERNARD continuing
pricci cars ("lower-price!"
sounde 5 much nicer than
WICKSTEED
his case-histories to parallel the missing Burgess and Maclean
in Dress Clothes....
said he was was alive.
news.
all
of
he
the curious pold can detective who had been en-
gaged by the family ceased to things that could happen to
He vanished man, he had inherit satisfied Marila make any more inquiries.
ed a fortune--about £200,000. And hobody knew where was. brother The missing man's and nephew, who were going to Engianit
well You see, everybody is aware of the fact that you are a rich man-or at all events get a lot of money every week. You advertise the fuct, don't you pai? Well, then you must other people expect that the can read,,
woman star,
matter of $8,500 (£3,036).
It was a racket. of course, bu
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the paid it. Why? Because, pai, ke all the stars, she is territte of getting a réputation tightwad. Want no unpleasant- ners. Anything for a quiet life (You'll soon find that cut, too.) Another star millions Cl girls have his picture hanging. over their beds just like you iny dla one day-wanted his drive-way repaired.
They came and looked at it and gave him an estimate which he accepted. The next day they came back, looked at it'agaln and doubled the estimate.
When he protested (mildly) they said: "You can afford it, can't you?" He paid
.up, too.
PALS, PAL
hat and evening dress, It river. Near by was hardly sounds the costume chain be had been wearing and for a disappearing act, but rifled wallet containing busi-
ness cards, but no money.
and The obvious conclusion, possibly it was intended to be obvious, was that someone had
At least nobody was certain. No it goes, pal. They have to He vanished just outside robbed and done away with Mr
to search for him, Some years before a mon had put their money out for all Martin sorts of charities. So will you, the RAC Club at 11.30 Joseph Wilberforce Martin.
cancelled their passages at the claimed to have met It was sald he was carrying last moment. They, (00, appear- In a Mexican coasting vessel. I'm not saying you wouldn't 1913, All p.n., April 3,
£100 cash when he vanished, ed to know something.
Overjoyed at meeting a fellow want to anyway, for worthy bour, date and place at $100
A reward of £500 was offered
countryman, he had revealed charities and within reason. which opera hats were not by his relatives in case he was
his Identity and said he was
But this la really something. ransom. An they being held for
The aura of riches around the living as a coffee planter in a American private detective was
Het taken to the cleaners. And dissolved. enote part of Mexico under's stupendous the way you'll American suddenly
won't dare say no you engaged to help in the hunt,
The deal in England hadn't the name of Jose Asthriln. For cotton broker
a moment Alartin Wh
sot squawk everyone
pal, Two American Lawyers come off, and in Memphis there from Memphis, Tennessee, and thought the mystery was solved were hints of, trouble.
out to find him and bring him
the stories that you In when the Iriend Martin bad supposed to be rich. Even
the glad news. But it had will start! You won't like some Indeed, Mr Joseph Wilber- those days all American busi- last dined with received a tete-
been Martin that the Ameri-
of the things that will get Switzer force Martin might have
can met in the coaster he'd ness mea were supposed in bo gram from Vevey in millionaires.
land. It sold: Am all right. every reason for wanting
given, a falsa addreas, for the circulated about you one little inquiries. Letter Stop
follows. vanish.
Lawyers found no trace of him, bit. Nor will the studio, pal. He had been in England or Joe No letter did follow and
So you'll pay. It Joseph Wilberforce Mar- ganising a deal, and on the no one remotely resembling Me cerned, the attitude seemed 10 in is still alive he is 70 years night he vanished had dinner
old and worth д lot
more at the RAC Club with an Eng- Martin had stayed at any Vevey be: "Well, Jolly good luck
~[London Exprein Servica.)
us conspicuous
might be now.
0
lish business friend.
After arranging a dinner for
the following night, which was
to be his last in Engiand, the American. finished his cigar and
hand 10
As for an England was con-
hotel.
him,"
But then things began to for 18 years: Quite suddenly money than he thinks, happen. First of all, the Ameri- he
and he was
rocketed
forgotten
back
Into
the
That's The End!
AHEM-I SEE [YOU ADMIRING.
MY HAIR-DO
YES-- VERY MUCH
SUPPOSE
YOU'LL BE
COPYING
said he must be off, as he had NANCY
a date with a beautiful woman
from Brazil,
The
taxi. porter, entled, a Martin got in, opera hot and all, and from that moment disap- peared. He never returned 10 his rooms for more sullable clothing, he didn't turn up for linner appolitment, he had tldn't catch the boat hơ planned to do.
The taxi driver was
nover
traced, nor was the mysterious
beauty from Briell.
Two days later the opera bat
- was found by some rulings in,
Pelvedero, Road, guth of the
THAT NEW GIRL, TRIXIE, IS SO CONCEITED
THEN-I
or
And'nt Christmas time! You'll wonder if you grew a long, white beard overnight, because everyone wi Eeem to be mistaking you for Sunta Claus,
By Ernio Bushmiller
I ALREADY.
•HAVE
man.
Those are just a few of the ways the money will go,
Still want to be a Alm star? You do? Well, good luck, pal- and I can give you the telephone numbers of some awfully good house-painters,"
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