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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1952.
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S students of London
university assembld for
It
their
Lent Term, London
adds to itself the population of a fair-sized town; for the capital, one of the last in Europe to possess a univer- sity, now has one of the largest in the world.
✩
By Robert Kingsley
PICTURES BY VICTOR DREES
A chink of chic gleams
out
Zombi Bar the Iron Curtain The plain man's Mme. Massigli
By Drusilla Beyfus
latest and loveliest Yugoslov
THREE cheers. The lid. Madame Vera Bebler, the is coming off the Red visitor to London, is the sort of bandbox and pretty women woman to take the edge off the are coming out of Com- East West wind. munist countries.
She is the wife of the Deputy Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, on actress Atember of the Yugoslav State Theatre, an ex-guerilla partisan, and han lot in common with the great Tine of Danubian beauties who never ever wore sensible sho23.
Let's have a little more of this new sort of ainbassadross from neat the Iron Curtain,
TOWN
an it fathers a number of societies It is also the student and cluds. body which speaks for them to the University authorities,
mothere was like that of
Ler its off Empire conterence du'y hours students of 'rakty
colours racca. and
queueing together,
and sharing tables talk without apparent self-con- sciousness or racial cliques.
Liaison is maintained through a warden, Mr John Waterman, who is also secretary of the College of Estate Management,
Let's have more of the
why
he looks. Madams has warm, léquncious, brown eyes in place
of the stay silent ones bred behind the Irda Curtain Madame has brown Darubing skin
in
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healthy atte and lives in a dal over the of make-up.
Madame Union ofees. He advises Union tips have all upon potley matiers the Upstick officers which have to be referred to they the Sertate,
of the
It was in the Assembly Hall
hendquarterS, the offices
and in to tell me the price of student- that we met Sylvia Wynter,
dressed smartly
girl clubrooms of the University life in London,
taking Jamalea, who was At present 27 The inferral student popula- Union,
colleges
He lives in a hostel, pays post-graduate course in Spanish. block members is are Bon of London Univerzity
110 for the 30-week University. Her home was destroyed in the
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23.202 (roughly equivalent to a union; by the summer's end all
therefore, or collages and, the size of Wind or town Dent): a total bigger than those students will be members. of Oxford (about 7200) and President of the Union is a Cambridge (1,788) pingether, dark,
student spare-framed And to this number must be of 36, named Derek Coomber, a added 27,780 external students. Londoner, whose military train who work for the University's ing interrupted his studies for degrees and diplomas either by two years. studying al other institutions or by tak hig
correspondence The President is a scientist, which is oppropriate since scientists outnumber any · other The grand total of London group of students (7.335 internal University's students, therefore, students, 10,924 external, com- is more than 30,000 — a popula- pared to 3,008 and 4,977 reading flon comparable to that of Guild- for Ants degrees). ford. The 23,000 Internal
courses,
students werk in 65-colleges,
Rushools and institutes with
+
120-
no
Loro
all year for bed and breakfast on
Acekdays, full board at week recent hurricane, and at ends. This works out, he said, toll in aid of the hurricane the Unton said; "There's a gen- at sightly more than living in relief fund which the students el impression that we lodgings. which average £3 ere holding she had been book very
but I don't think that's In Central London, ed to sell programmes. 109.
so at all. There is £2
a week
decided political tendency." And
Let's have 100, a week. (to which must be added fares) on
The Union provides this As-
indeed
In a day spent with othe outskirts, The University Lodg- sambly Hall (temporary, 1014- the students that was all the of the way ings Bureau has 4,000 addresses 18 war Army hu, which will polities I heard talked beyond she dressen,
ultimately be
to replaced by a references
the traditional She Is on its lat,
handsome building equipped general election eve rag, which | plain man's. Tate gave me come Idea ot with swimming-pool, squash most students seemed to the cost of courses ot the courts and other amerillies) and member with satisfaction. University, which vary from college to college, from course to tourse.
recognised teachers," which are Ile reckons this presidential spread all over London and its duties occupy him 30 hours of outskirts (one is as far away every week and does his best as Ashford, Kent).
to eitch up on work at week- cnds and late at night,
They are instructed by 333 profasors, 249 readers, and 991 recognised teachers—a toinl of 1,573, or one to every 15 internal students.
achninistrative
which is the centre of the university,
THEY POUR
IN THEIR
THOUSANDS
Placo
The
He got University
Twe
Here &
THE GREAT MAJORITY of overseas students who go to Britain attend London University. group from Nigerin, with Miss Phoebean Itayemi in the centre, hold an informal discussion during a break from studies.
VALLEY OF
OF
Ma damo
Massigli (the elegant indiy
VERA BEBLMEL from Belgrade.
at London's French Embassy).
She wears smart suits
from New York, high-heeled back shoes,. Ane nylons, and a large. diamond-and-sapphire ring on her wedding finger,
Let's hear (a lot)' mora of the things she likes about us in the West. "In Belgrado we have nothing to touch your best West End shows. It's great to see Shakespeare so well done, a
"Everyone at home will want to know what I've seen,
Something she won't be d'ale to describe, though, will be the Paris dress show openings.
"I did want to sco Christia Dior's clothes. I can't afford a model myself, but I rich round to a smaller dressmaker
ask.
and
her to make me the next
・best.""
Let's hear more of tila sort of behaviour from partisais ani plonectra. "One thing I'm keen on is
lying late in bed."
FROM Luberc to Lamarr, from Parlova to Pola Negri.
PEACE HAS
-Ã --- seier,ce-course-at-King's --- College costs £32 105. a year and lasts three, to four years. At Imperial College the fees are
£00.
With us,
as we talked, was Ruth Manley, an attractive, dur 21-year-old git
from One of his vice-presidente u Wallingford, who is the Union's Miss Volerie Ball, the Olymple publicity officer. She is study- hope, a student at the Royal Ing fer an Arts degree at West- College of Music. Another, Miss field (women's) College, Hamp- Valerie Howard, was in Spain, stead. The feca for residence The hub and heart of this acting as interpreter to a no- and fattion are £130 and 42 big organisation is in Blooms- dienal student delegation, when guincas bury, In the
a year, respectively. quiet squara I called at the Union, under the shadow of the sky- Says the President: "Although scraper like Senate House, very fow students Are here
In the Union clubrooms, their under
own steam (the majority receive grants from met Otujimi Julsoso, a tall, be- Near by, in Woburn Square, think nearly everyone has
one authority or another), I spectacled
Nigerian, 26 years in three houses, are the students think
to old, who is here for a year to twice before
study geography, Joko is on expensive. Olympic posible for his nor and money, London an
to live in
100 metres, does not. Unton's semetary, Alan the food here troubles him in A. Tate, who comes from Red- training, but he does feel the car, Yorkshire, and is studying cold. the history and philosophy of
Д B.A. at the alence at King's College, broke
College, Ibadan, Nigeria and was wearing a col- lage blazer. This - one of Ave Empire, Univer- alty Colleges (the others are in Jamaica. the Sudan, the Gold Coast and Uganda) at which under a special scheme, students may sit
know for London Uni werally
degrees, Vaduz until the time the thousands without on 63 equare miles of tel tunnel which takes them by when the colleges
albums- is the By now you may be wonder way stamp themselves tain
university capital of the tiny Princt why there are only 12,000 summer
people If the valley is really a was bulit specially and which statuz.
pality of Lichtenstein. Why peaceful one and if war, and Sixty percent of the popula- Joleoso is ons Lichterstein is known to the rumours of war, are any tion here are foreiants, and, in the slightest of grey shadows spite of the influx of foreign of 1,077 Empire stamp collectors is that a
nitting scmewhere beyond its wealth, there Are no large Budents tend-third of the national budget borders,
landowners over by Lichten- ing the Universis made up by the sale of NO HURLY-BURLY stein's Ipulan standards. sity (there are
The bora of this country... 95% from other postage stamps to collectors
Prince Franz Josef-owns only countries over-all over the world.
Bve hundred acres. sens). They come
Lichtenstein lives by is
Any maderately wealthy per- from lands 05
work, con con establish, a "retreal" in diverse alphabe-stamps. If money is thort then
little is quite understandable the
Principality for Bically as Aden it prints a new "Issue," the col-
that 'and Zanzibar and | lectors rush to buy-and money when one, reallezs
the nothing more than the prover- no more bial seng. geographically as is short no longer. It is just as whale country hes
than 22 factories employing as simple as that." opary
The idea
to scems
havo Barbedes and
is grand total of 700 workers.
caught on already, for 18 Borrico.
To live in. Lichtenstein you admitted that at least 100
TO LEARN
IN LONDON
JILL BLAMPIED (20), of Westfield College, a second-year classics student, whose home is in Jersey, talks with John Flaker (22), a Freshman studying psychology, who comes from Farnham.
JOHNNY HAZARD
at-
AN ARMY OF
OF SEVEN
By Norman Lindhurst
Valuz. an international reputation for Luxurious motor cars with TNLESS you are a stamp not being involved in wer. The the llcence plates of Britain, UNL
reputation dates back to 1887. France and other countries may collector you may not
Here, in fact, 19
true purr along the roads, but the, where Vaduz is. "Vailer
of
Feace" 12,000 cows have the right, of way for the benefit of people, no more living apply particularly through an Alpine
of a short
cut to their Dasturda
www
etamp revenue But the
only not the
oddly th this
log
The answer is that there i nothing to step anyone be- coming a citizan of this coun try, except that you may find
cbtain it dmcult fo
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foreign familles have taken up Mediterranean-type villas aro splendid mushrooming on the heights overlooking the capital.
We were taken Principality, which is no big must pretty wall forget the to funcheon in ger than a postage stamp itself. world, for hers, where cow residence in Lichtenstein, and
Union Ass Here even the cows autlost out besides topping the population sembly Hall (a number the people, and no one late-also enjoy greater pres
a millionaire, really believes it even remotely tige than many
tile room for the three course
that war could ever there is meal costs about possible
of the modern Bd.) and louch Lichtenstein, After all, hurly-burly thare the at this tiny Principality, has made world.
By Frank, Robbins
it's dee-licious!
Talm
Toffee
ON SALE IN S
NSHOPS THAT SELL, THE BEST
LOW TAXATION *Healdes - Its stamps, Lichten- afein collects quite a handful of money from the many foreign holding companies which have registered in the Principally, The low taxation of this coun- try has induced the registra- tions. Nerare - directors of these companies required to bo residents. It' la sufficient if they eppoint
μ
their locaine's?
aften
Foreign millionaires disposo of their tax worries tax worries in Lichtenstein, that is over- a cocklali,
Supporo war should blaze fnto on utemic bonfire Lichtenstein's #army! wrcial perhaps try to keep the peace for a few hours, pe at least I a few minutes.
After all, seven nen
tot stand much chance,