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CAMPING
The lunch break is a world-wide Institution. It may mean a big meal ör
a sandwich; a couple of hours or a few minutes; a nap, or an opportunliy;"to" close a big deal. Today, correspon dents report from variotis countries In
SPOTLIGHT ON THE LUNCH HOUR
THE New York lunch water. Factories and many
hour is usually 40 often with no dining rooms.
big onlees. have canteens, but
T
hour-and-a-half-or It offices especially, workers just half-an-hour. It all de may collect their meat from a
counter and cat, it at pends on business.
own desks. Gavin Gordon.
Here, above all the other elties in the world, big busi- ness spends almost as much
A DIFFERENCE
their
In Austria. The first em-
time in the good restaurants THERE are two lunch hours and cocktail lounges as it braces all white-collar workers, Rhop assistants and govern- spends in its offices.
ment employees gerierally.
hour off at
Time and again you will hear They all get an people at the next table mid-day. closing four and Sve figure As all the shops in the town denis, and it always seems im- are closed for two hours from possible to find any business 12.30 to 2.30, while food shops "contact" in his afice between remain closed from 1 to 4 p.m. 1 and 2.30 p.m.-wi.h somo they can't go shopping.
On the
food other hand, either
shops are open at 7'am, sharp in the morning. and remain For the carcer girls it is open until
that p.m.-to the same story.
their Their lunch office workers can do time depends on the amount shopping. of, shopping they have to do.
"Marvellous, isn't it? Come here every year for my holidays and go back every year telling 'em I've had a wonderful time." times a half-hour
side.
-(London Express Service)
The world's highest mountain is in the news once more as
Four Attempt Again
O
To Climb Everest
THER than Everest
1
man might suc-
to become, in the eyes elitors, an authority mountaineering.
or
By H. W. TILMAN
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The Himalayan Committee of the Royal Geographical Society (England) and the Alpine Club (London) are sending put a parly of four climbers to. investigate the south-western aspect of Mount Everest. The party is led already made three nt. by Mr Eric Shipton, who has tempts to climb Everest. The three other members of the team, Mr W. H. Murray, Dr Michael Ward and Mr T. Bourdillon, are also seasoned climbers., Mr Shipton was formerly British Consul-General In Kashgar and Kunming
Nepal of the equipment, much less a Photographs ot. the
in the of the
n doctor mountain, par priest. With
in
ACCCAS,
of
side
J
It is surprising and a Hittle humillating to realise how much about Everest is still unknown. The strange behaviour now on the upper parts, why remains powdery on the north
time at what
of It is
year blown off, evaporates, or other- wise disappears, the weather of in'e September and October and high climbing is then possible, Era queations to some of which the present reconnaissance party may And an answer; besides the all-important one of whether or not the South ridge is attainable.
Odds Against
11.
an
and no
?
So after eating a substantial lunch at the local "Gasthaus,"
Aus-
the
K there is no business to or a liberal supply of home- transact, however,
nade sandwiches, eliopping to do, New Yorkers trian treats his meals with cut their lunch hour to the respect-they take harest minimum-and ofich hour's nap, have lunch sent up to vihres by messenger.
their
There is little sign of office their workers relaxing during lunch break. Only the chorus girls seem 10 sunbathe their rooftops, or on the flat above the Radio City stage
after rehearsals. Only a tow men and women seem to rest In the gardens, or in Central Park. All the others are rush ing round accomplishing some thing.
And how much does lunch cost here? In a tiptop place 28s a plate; a midium-grade restau- rant is a plate; cafeteria; 75 20; a sandwich stand, 5s for a sandwich, a bowl of soup, and a cup of coffee.
No wonder they prefer to cut their lunch hours. and have a home-made
half-
In
Those with their OWN pil- vate offices have criches, while other humbler beings doze the pubile gardens in
and wherever they summer,
the ean And a quiet spot in winter months.
In the factories it is quite different. Here the workers take the shortest possible time cantéen off to gulp down a lunch, or the contents of their sandwich box, and get back to work. The less time they spend on lunch, the sooner they finish work and go home. Richle McEwen... FOR REPOSE.
can
UNCH time in France at of least two solid hours
it is a very serious affair.
Shopping? Impossible, Mon- shut. shops are sleur. The sandwich Lunch time aporta? Unbelley-
able, Monsieur.”
in the office. Rodney Campbell.
SERIOUS JOB
the
of
ceed in climbing uny great peak in the world without attract- ing much attention; haying to explain to his friends, who would not much mind, whether the peak lay in the Alps, the Atlas, the Andes, or the mountains of the moon. But the reward of having so much as set foot on Everest is to be invested, in the side
As every good Frenchman public eye, with a stature as ticularly of the final 3,000 ft. of party, too, one felt that
scem South ridge, the
possibic to providing against all
know the, lunch break is for lofty as the mountain and show that snow lies there always, contingencies human foresight WEST Cwn. The odds are
Food hearty eating, drinking, of
against it. On the known that it is good hard stuff could no further go.
TUNCH-hour is a good time and then a little, repose. Nepal side of
for instance, the
Sharply at 12, an aparitif upony, intended, for climbing.
for shopping in Belgium. mountain is more gracious and climb
of Lome 2,000
Ealing Is taken seriously. with friends at your favourite factor would not be so vl'al. An
An Livable place than bleak, dusty, from the East Rongbuk Though the business lunch bar. Then a servict: tucked
Trees Rongbuk.
shirt-front, and and to the North Col is the steepest interval is usually two hours, in the snow would windy If there were degrees to be untimely fall of
art the impose only a delay of two or flowers abound, barley grows at purt and it is now hoped to find workers use it for lunching meal begins. taken in that diMcult
foot of Nupise and yaks o route fit for laden porters not for shopping..
A plate of spleed sausage, most impressive would be "failed three days of waiting for it to the
Then a nice cut whereas on the: gruze and grunt their way up starting from about 20,000 ft. on
perhaps. M.E."; and no one would smile consolidate,
ablation valley of the the floor of the West Cwm tothis
It is not easy to lunch in a meat; fresh vegetable — spy a. is fortunate possessor as they nor h side it brings the senson the
South glacier.
of Col at 25,850ft. It
restaurant in less time, for peas-bowl
good salad, do when carnest students confer to an end and ruins the climbers' Khumbu
There is, too, a smaller, expecting a
a lot
there is no such thing ns a slice of cheese, and a plate of upon themselves the honourable hopes.
brighter, less austere replica of But mountains often behave quick 2s 0d lunch,
fruit. Not forgetting the bottle degree of "failed B.A.." for so
the austere Rongbuk monastery, structurally in surprising ways. You can get a ham roll at of red wine. Relax over coffee, smallest high is the distinction earned by
just the where friendly lamas inslet on The greatest expert in mountain the concert and poetry sessions and maybe making an attempt.upon.Everest.
their guests taking a pipe-opener structura would hesitate to at the Beaux Arts Museums, of brandies. that no one is, rude enough to
of brandy, before breakfast prodlet the s
Then why not shut your eyes otherwise if you can't afford comment upon the failure.
inma's blood" we called it, for queer slit which things in that
restaurants you go home, even for a few moments- The
is not surprising If the if it means cooking your own
businessman does not
appear just left for India
whose primary
If you want to shop in r until after three o'clock. Not naissance. Besides these there
lunch hour, the stores are al- forgetting he starts earlier and have been Ove full-blown
so and the right assistant, to most empty, but your problem inishes much later than people
In Britain. temp's all ending in failure.
All factories and big firms leave her
for own counter yours. Office workers do their have canteens, usually run at a and shopping in their own neigh loss. Food is first-class bourhood, where
little plentiful. French workers take They shops stay open late in the their enting seriously.
leisurely and expect to cat evening.
well. And they do, Henty Rush lunchers bring
sand Thody. wiches and eat them in a çafo over a glass of beer or mineral LONDON LUNCH
is the third alm is recon-
More Sun
40 artic
ព
it
HM the
་
flavoured with arak
the
discharges. from HE South ridge, moreover, THE small party which has
10 was WDS
between Its enclosing walls a lic appears
3. a cloves.
broken cataract of ice barely a reasonable
and
On this brief excursion quaricr-mile wide. that there might broad
be fortnight's marching each way Mallery, having looked down # choice of
only six days at the foot this West Cwm Icefall from route along is easterly edge and find my sal we had no time the head of the Hongbuk slacier, an-all-rock route further is the to penetrate the West Cwm and wrote: "It was, not a very likely Five times is a lot. All have wds. Since the strata de north could not see up it. Something chance that the followed the sam: straight wat
Cap between there rocks should be was learnt, but wards
Lhotie principal Everest and forward roule from the North Colasier to climb and more prolife value of the trip seems to have reached from the west,
could be From (c.23,000 11.) up the North ridge, ja tent platforms than thoss an been as an example or read to what we have seen I do not a route devold at difficulty
much fancy. i woukt be pas- far as 28,000 ft.
Climbers on the north side After an acquaintance extend-rible, eves could one get up the eviden'ly Devold
would enjoy more sun (on the ing over thirty years, admittedly glacier." known route Camp VI remains with limited opportunities · of
until 9 a.m.) and in shadow would be pro ected from the north-west wind. Thus the south side of the mountain offers some solid advantages, always
03
the north.
where It becomes
stceper. of difficulty, however only when conditions are per- fect no snow on the rocks and no wind. Such conditions are rare and ceimg.
Fierce Wind
TVARLY in the season, say, be-
wo
provided a route comparable in case and safety to the present
cne can be found,
Hitherto Exploration
EARLY 16 say ben confined to the Tibetan
the
s.de because Nepal was even more dificult of access than north-west Tibet.
rocks will undoubtedly be clear, wind is
at
* fierce
The first scratch in the
others.
-(Time & Tide)
beef steak.
the
DISAPPOINTMENT OVER
FESTIVAL PRIZE PLAY
now
From RONALD ROPER
I
:
MOST London workers have
full hour for
lunch break and many considerably longer than either with or without employers' knowledge.
their
toice
this,
their
Eating out in the city he- tween 12.30 p.m. and p.m. is quite a problem. easy enough to get a
London, Sept. 10. disappointment was deepened by biloys than, eliber of ita din ill blowing, while 500-mile long Nepal Himalaya
we the knowledge that both Fry and appointing after the first was made as recently
predecessors but дву
time week of June the warm monsson when the writer
Usitnov were "discovered" as certainly lora rewarding. Jcha took a small should be hearing who party to the Langtang Himal, 100 is the winner of the Arta play panel.
playwrights by the Arts Theatre Barber's reaction is worth quat 65.
current may be expected to drape
the rocks, in a mantle of snow.
heavily on May 6 and continued
to tail intermittently until the monsoon proper
show
ret in. Much ....
05-1943 ANY
Two Women
to
2:30
first-
It ty
class meal at a good restaurant if you have the time and the money to spare, but it is not easy to eat well for less than Also the queues and crowds at the more reasonable.
cat
much satisfaction to sble for her having done much marks, such ar We are up-
her usual preaching the point of deviation home, and thereby saving sa
4110
.p.m..
are packed with businessmen
miles west of the Everest group. Theatre Club's £700 prize The crl'ics evidenily trist did not understand word restaurants make it practically. In theory, therefore, there is a Novertheless both the original
quickly and three-week period in which con- Everest reconnaissanen of 1921 for the best Festival of Bri- be kind to Miss Bagnold. One of the plot-about an old :ecture impossible to
sald no worse of "Poor Judas" who keeps saying: Once I was in comfort. ditions are favourable, but in and the second
more and of 1995 made tain play.
Corisequently, rest turile.' of a
And a young than that the nervousness practice what are Imown in fruitlers efforts to find a way meteorological eltelt as "West over the Nepal side in order to not give
Unfortunately, the result can compeiing was perhaps respon woman who makes sudden re-mare workers are taking their own, sandwich lunches from ern Disturbances" take a hand. examine what is known as the anyone except the winner: It is less than justice to
considerable amount of money. In 1938, for example, snow fell Wes! Cwm.
nct in the nolure of cities to sex.
cach week. This also enables agree, but they have been as As the coffin of "Poor Judas"
them to do their shopping in zar unanimily as they're ever was lowered beneath the wright 6 did not undereland, the lunch-hour. In fact, for likely to be in expressing dis- cf. criticat disapproval, a gym- vidient shootings, a village much of the working popula- the same happened in 1936.
appointment at the three plays pathiser deeped a few petals in fire and the hanging of the Hon. this is the only time o The rash layman might well
which the judges-Alec Clunes,
by three lunatic day when shopping is possible, marvel at hardy mountaineers THIS
THIS range cleft is a sart of Peter Ustinov and Christopher the firm of the opinion that principals
incoherency the play. soldiers.
for generally, shops are opeti by duding
"And finally I did not un-from 0. a.m. Blacier Hord lying deep beey-selected for performarns dealing with the urge of a wHE being disconcerted
11, 6,50 at 27,000
scarca acul to wille a moru- derstand why the audience when most people are at work. or 20,000th and tween the mighty West ridge of in order to decide the winner. might ask us whether we expect the mountain and along an
lunch- There were over 900 ealcies, mental work on political wicked- which includta Tyrone Guthrie The result that ot to find flowers. But the point even higher ridge running, from As soon as it became known that DealMiss Dagatki etire the and Christopher Fry-were so time in London, the big stores.
The Lhotse (the South. Prak 27,800 one experienced le that at these heights on
paywright mind,”
pallent with it a
Readers will have glooned north side snow remains powdery ft.) to Nuptse (the West Peak Miss Enid Bagnold (Lady Jones,
and women, hurriedly making (otherwise it would not disappear c. 25,000 ft.). At the head of wife of Sir
स certain obscure
their purchases. wrest- It does later in the year) and the fjord an airy ridgo, having former head of ag
Ing
destiny or fate Even more energolle ore the The WOS by refusing to consolidate renders as is lowest point, a decidedly and two other authors who THEN came. Webber's
ntly the underlying young girls who play netball *Impossible,
aley col of 23,850 It, links Lhotes had had plave
performed Pigh. Side Up." This In- then inspiring til therd plays. In their Junch-liour In Lin- Webber and Joha tradused a weird young man Maybe the judges, feeling that coln's Inn Fields. This vented both the 1038 and 1038 Jeland of
in the run",
end gun-running, of a disikusened, and
city workers gather to Inquiring parties from coming to close
tamented that the judges were dexts his manhood In, asavetation #30 shoped that perform-
the entries
watch. grips with the mountain. and South ridgo above the bajaset of, png, mores of amateur, writers' to En add background of this element" was characteristic quite ari attraction, end crowds
equal Boho
acting of marks and
Not all
Londoners are when members of the later bad to be climbable and it is equally evidenly not giving new talent win proved the impossibility of cop apparent that the cast side of the break, though that was under this compellive play provoked mice would settle the Iratze of such a rush however, On ing with powder snow at over col is not climbable. Everything icod to be ene object of the in one critte onky apathy, for priority perhaps with the pld pleasant summer day the city's
competition,
parks...aro" Full the cast and the conviction that of midlence-reaction."
of people 27,000 fl
"It has a Aghting chance for in Tour only conclude that stretched but asleep in dock ask; the
chaion among The three.j Tibolan authorities for a three- Kurroons. Hear,
Beams to have been entirely, a their faces ; or, leisurely, naling year lense were in the have read of two redoubt US reling the grown with plays of wolfval en wou entertainment of the public class with, nawronpers over hope that the three consecutive abla woman who bays taken the consistently unfavour John Whiting's "Baints' Day," recondary consideration. But these mundwiches by the side seasons one might be favourable, part in Himalayan adventure, but ablé noticea
rochastions third of the photo-Obish entries, is the, mudlemen, which, for some of a lake,: occasionáity: throw-
ing crumbs to ling, duske. However the war and I.""after" fiiberia 1 has not regerded
plays..., bayo has kit coins. 10, the stages It la sinfathomable math but paid to that proj#91;==
the diros" described as possibly; mors, line patient withs; se ait
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When untimely snowfalls og liseli.
to the South
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The three thousand odd
appear
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The protulion for turns, therefore, on whattier this
cam, be reached from the neur. Darjeeling
Roderick Reuters).
Jones,
gangsterdam
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and.