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London Express Service
Plastic surgeons chalk up a
new. success
WO exciting
T
dis-fusions” of skin from, rela-
coveries, which may (tives and friends! enable plastic
aur-DISCOVERY No. 1 is the
geons to save many more finding that skin grafted from lives and rebuild injured one animal to another lives three faces with less disfiguremes longer. If the animal re-
colving it is. given. ment, were disclosed by corisone, the
British Association scien- drug.
tists recently..
Until now, akin grafted from: one person to another has never survived for more than at few days. So scores of badly burned patients have died from.shock becauso. their wounds could not be properly covered.:
THE
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
COLUMN
they
of
Cortisone alxo dolays
the tightening which normally, takes place ground a ·bad burn, cousing *COTA: This delny might give a might me to
surgeon more provent_diaßgureisent, DISCOVERY NO. 2 Is the fact that snail poiches of skin, groft- masate-fashion
ed
over a large wound, Jest much longer f are taken from severat dorors Instead of one.
Now, as 'n' result of in-Both discoveries were made in
Birmingham Univerally genlous experiments with the
laboratories of animals there is hope that ressor Peter Medawar. Behind of 30-year-olti Pro- burned people may be able them is a clue to the reason why to get life-saving "trans skin grafted from another per-
son quickly dles.
The.
It would
To the tune of 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," Page 4 winds up
a royal birthday, souvenir
THE PRINCESS
MARGARET ENCYCLOPÆDIA
The house where the great ball was held,
with V for
·This` encyclopidla has bean compiled by
Very Important Party Drusilla Beylus
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They sit around and listen to re- cords and talk about He In general No. I don't think she entertains any young men on her own.
B.Q: "What kind of grapo- » phone records?”
"All kinds, I know she likes ballet music and the recordings of the new American musicals." B. Q: "Does the Queen choose Princess Margaret's clothes?"
"There is no rule laid down lo the effect that the Princess has to consult the Queen, bul the Princess and her mother think so much as one that she likes the Queen to look over her things
Arst
B. Q: "What does the Princess do with last ycùr", dresses?"
The Princess doesn't have nearly as many dresses as the public supposes, you know. really can't say what she does with her old ones. I believe she wears out some of them in the morning. when she writes letiera."
B. Q: "What sort of "books docs the Princess lee reading. T MIDNIGHT, Prin- Princess Margaret was the beat?
cesa. Margaret was second child to be born into the
"The
Princess enjoys 'Jane' House with the new name. Auslen, the French classici, in the arms of her
Previously the name had been, modern novels, and detectivo escort, Mr Billy Saxe-Coburg and Gothu-the-thelers." Wallace, dancing to the territorial designation of the tune "Diamonds Are A Prince Consort, Queen Victoria's husband. Victoria herself wne Girl's Best Friend."
the Inst representative of the The Princess was spending House of Hanover, whose an evening in a thoroughly surname was Guelph. But her pleasant way. She was at a son, Edward VII (Margaret's said she would like to do a job, really big party in her pret-great-grandfather), took his if things flest dress-with a chance of the father's name, and was the only, what kind?" monarch to belong to the House "It doesn't
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The beautiful ball was given by the Earl and Countess Mount- batten for their young daughter Lady Pamela.
Among the guests, you would expect to find were Princess
of Saxe-Coburg and Goths.
b. Q: Does the Princess carry money about with her?"
"Yes, because she often has to contribute to church. bazaars,
church services.". feles,
B.Q: "Has the Princess ever
different; if so
even enter her
$
head, I imagine."
about all those pay stories about men There he was, all gay the Princess, which are always and glittering, with those parma going the rounda?".
violet eyes at the full sparkle, with her making a great play ivory cigarette holder the full- Pola Negri stuff.
Brashest question of all: "What by an entranced group of young THE ARRIVAL OF
"So much of the Princess is legend, you know.
Apar. from their territorini The setting was at Broadlands, title, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas their Hampshire home, opened are sold to have adopted up fully for the first time since surname from the castle and town the war and splashed with of Wettin, a name sometimes floodlighting.
given to Edward VII's House.
"Today, the
only people moking Powerful support for the ปร of the family surname are Palace Princess version has been the.. Duke
and
Duchess of provided by the recent Windsor the title bestowed on biography, "The Younger Sister" Elizabeth and the Duke of Edward
VIII by the present by the distinguished author Mr Edinburgh (hock once again King at Edward's abdication. where
Godfrey Winn. spent their honey- they
Windsor is not an uncommon
ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO moon). The Princess was in pink tulle and an emerald neck surname in Britain; there are A CHILDREN'S HOME....
two columns of Windsors in the ince, and busy dancing sedately London Telephone Directory.
"She has received
many, gifts, Sir Malcolm Sargent.
but one that gave her more with
the strawberry Among the
picamure than guests not In Deb- rett were Anna Neagle and her
which six-year-old Roger, Wil- husband Herbert Wilcox, David
liams had grown in his garden Niven and his wife, and the
ON HER SENSE OF PUBLIC DUTY..... Mayor a and Mayoress of Romsey, who got a great cheer from the crowd as they arrived in a local taxel.
X
for X
THE X every one of us (when
The host was splendidly attired, we're 21) can make on our voting
paper-privilege denied
in talls (which he changed into Princess Margaret.
after dining in a red dinner Jacket), with what seemed almost
a yard of medals on his shoulder.
Hin stryd were also dressed
In the manner magnificent and
had the initials of M. of B. (for Mountbatten of Burma) worked
their jacket More than a
on
thousand
rests:
Y
Younger Sister
turned Two bands played. THE PRINCESS'S oftalat
"The public-poor old then never see her like this," ·¤ TUOLI the summing up. Report No. 2:
:
"I'd rather die than talk to her about politics or ask a ques- HOn about Abadan....The talk oy but very superficial about books in Nobody talke case the other chops there should think you a bit Hily, and, most important of all, you should never dicuss money,
"You can mention racing, of course, but not too often, because "Now that her alster is a it's a bit technical and, anyway, mother for the second time it is involves cash. Mostly we keep the representatives and to safe, subjects, and talk about friends, and more spokesman
youth that mutual Princess Marga is eager to particularly ourselves." assumed increasing
respon
And
Wihri finally Mr
answert the question to many have wondered about a
The official bromide-and otherwise. The truth; as always,. is somewhere bolwben.
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Zodiac
The King's younger daughter repiled at once and with a con- viction in her voice that was like a moving chord in music; cannot imagine anything more There were orchids from the publicist who works in Bucking wonderful than being who [F'amy". garden. A gush of champagne, ham Palaceable but from the way her, expresion EVEN the least superstitious 22 "Ila" justinn |_ Jormal affair" agreeable person called Dian changed, the rudden look of people are interested to knów said the organiser, happily, Lyttelton. She has one of the
hardest jobs in the Royal House dedication, it was obvious she their birthday, sign of the Zoding, hold,
|;\encing"with", writern who
The sun usually enters a new want to know all about the of her family destiny and of her sign between the 20th and 24th Princées; when every reply she increasingly important part in is of the month and zo Princess gives must toe the Palace Ling, relenticas yet rewarding put Margaret, whose birthday falls
And what is the Paines
torn, ak
Won the 21t, is on the bridge be
tween Lee (The Lion) and Virgo Howover a alightly different (The Malden). So (là ti börder- The Younger Sister Une cp32.battroen ide strong
and the demure,:
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ROYAL
Well, the official Palace Princess
war
is 'n worthy & girl, dremendously HION, keen about "such things as tole „vlow. July 17, dancing and family chart chape
For example, ibl
thinking not of herself, but
her.pedestal:
tiona
reacts to the staft to an invading
gerin. It forms "anti-bodies" which attack and destroy the foreign skin.
from
If skin transplants several animals are, grafted on at the same time the body disperses its defences in an áts tempt to attack them all. So cachi graft gets a longer like.
That Garter
Dr
A HISTORY book story of the founding of the Order
of the Garter by King Edward III was called Into question by Margaret A. Murray. She retired recently from the post of in Egyptology
assistant Viversity:
at London
When Lady Salisbury's garter telly at a ball
at Warkworth
Castle in 1344, King Edward picked it up and strapped it on his own leg remarking. "Honi. soft gut nial y pense
Dr Murray asked: "Why should Lady Salisbury be wear- ing a garter 100 years before stockings?"
The reason suggested by Dr Murray was that the garter was the symbol of the chief of the coven (or council), a pre-Chris- ttan
organisation of 13 people,. Britain's old religion. Had the new Christian priests dis- that Lady Salisbury covered
in
were one, her life would have been forfeit,
King Edward, by his quick- thinking in putting the garter on his own leg, saved Lady Salisbury's life. In founding the Garter. Ortier in groups of 13, King Edward still adhered to. the old structure of the goven.
On His Mind..
THE STORY which raised the blagest British Association laugh cf-the-week: Some country par- sons, it seems, eke out their meagre livings by reporting the local weather cach week on a form provided by the Air Ministry.
fall
"Rain-
In the column marked "lo
in inches" one cleric cently inked in 0.9. As there was no other evidence of such cloud-burst, the Air Ministry wrote to the parson.re He replied that he had made a regrettable error. The figure) 8.9. was weighing on his mind
BILLY WALLACE during the Sunday evening
and dashbulbs throw up the gleaming, shirt-front of the man who arrived with Princess Margaret. *-*
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