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THE
QUIET IN GLASSHOUSE
sit in the Press box ten miles away from the explosion along with their American colleagues. What sect of co-operation is this?
The sidewalk superintendents ing in the Trusteeship Council respondents are not allowed to
and don't know, say they rather give the impression they don't care.
only the opening But it's day, Perhaps by the time New Yorkers have got used to their the word will have spread that it's not en-
all-American tirely an
newest tower
proTM..
New York, Tuesday. MAN could be for- given for confusing the York home of -New Lever Brothers with the headquarters of the United Nations. Both buildings are mammoth chunks of ahin- ing glass and stainless steel Jec.
Bome -strict, severe, and soaring There are, of course,
between Lever to the sky, Both concentrate differences
the home of House and the on air and light and sweep- United Nations.
House cost only ing space, and both have
Lever the aim of making the $0,000,000. The United Nations world a cleaner, better headquarters cost $85,000,000.
be And there seems
moro sheer bustle and activity and
going on in the hurd work roap establishment than in the peace palace.
place.
The Lever building, how. ever, is in the business of selling soap, and the United Nations building is peddling pence.
In fact, it is hard to discover just what is taking place in the United Nations. The huge, Rlassed-in foyer was almost de scried when I arrived. I have visited these two
The place reminded me of a towers during the post few super-colossal hotel
containing days to see what I could find.
everything but guests. They are now New York's most
You are supposed to have a show- modern and spectacular
United pass to get into the places, challenging the Empire' Katlons, but I slipped in with State Building. the Rockefeller out one. Center, and the Chrysler Build- ing for first place.
Today is the official opening of the Lever palace. The place Is breathtaking. The publicity literature is overwhelming.
But where, oh whero is there
any mention that, the
No one was using the glit tering steel escalators. The idlo
out lift-girls stood gossiping side their emply, elevators. The miles of new carpet were un- trod. The hundreds of futuris- ilc couches, settees, chairs, desks, stools were unoccupied
I said to one of the guards: isn't it?" He said:
Chamber another opulent au- ditorium-to a handful of of- cials and spectators.
There was no one, however, in the Security Council Cham- ber, and either.
по спе
next door
My guide said: "There are. people around, you know. The place is so big you don't see of As a matter them much. fact, there are 3,100 employees in the place right now. It was a real scramble for lunch to grace, tuy the cafeteria couldn't handle them."
THE
Worn joke
HE cafeteria's inability
handle the hungry and the in- efficiency of the air-conditioning system are the two main gripes
of
has
What turns a Nobody into
a Somebody?
by FRANK GOLDSWORTHY
HO'S WHO, 1952, married Mrs Elsle Myrlle Ab- is out, and 1,002 bot, an under-secretary at the
Treatury since 1050. new namea take, up alphabetical station among
all the Somebodies.
[One of the mixed blessings
a Somebody t of becoming that Mr Abbot's ends will not all know she f 44; career 1849 new Somebodies will women rarely, shirk the date of birth" Ring in the pre- be privately flicking through minary questionnaire).
As they have done since
the pages, seeking their own entries; and Not-Yet- Ins will be disagreeing with,
selection which leaves ก them out.
Who makes the selection? Nobody holds as oficiat post- on an selector, Who's Who is strictly private enterprise, commercial reference book, and its prestige rests on its Integrity.
Gwn
A
The Just Men who decide whether this name or that de- the serves a place confer in inner offices of a publishing firm in Soho Square, W.
Gallantry can earn a place in Who's Who, but only when it is recognised as being of the order. Private Bill highest Speakman's Korea V.C. too late for this issue, but he will be there with other V.C.s from. 1953 for as long as he lives.
come
On the stage and screen
Hollywood West End hit or Oscar is not enough; recogni- lich goes to men and women whom the years have proved capable of holding their places at the top of their professions,
Just as tough
T is just an tough In radio.
Kenneth Adam, Controller of
Their own names, even their number, have never been pub- lished. But they are constantly the Light Programme, is one of haunted by the Would-Be- this year's newcomers, joining Somebodles,
-Wilfred Pickles, 0.3.E., and "Arthur Bowden Askey, then-
what
They never reveal for rules, if any, they have selection-but sampling of the 40,000 names in the 3,100 pages of Who's Who, 1952, points to a general pattern.
The two big gateways clearly public ofico and London Gazette.
New Knights
PERS
of
trical artiste." But muny long- ved names-are-missing-1 forecast Jimmy Edwards,
Take It From Here," will be next year-as Edwards, James, M.A., Rector of Aber- are deen University.
The
at
In
Telov'sion, it seems, has not yet arrived., George Reginald Barnes, Its director, has 18 lines, but there is no sign of his departmental chlefs: And the ,37 lines about Terry-
Thomas refer to the distinguish-
Inherit their entries along with their titles; anded headmosler-of Leeds Gram-
mar School. the drawbridge is lowered once for a new knight or dame:
For sportsmen, whose top-of- but Who's Who is not a social the-tree careers are often short, register, and family connections the gate is NITTOW.
Gordon are not enough,
Richards, Jack Hobbs ("retired
cricketor"),
and professional Waller Hammond (company director)
of are there, and, Sir Domid Bradman, CRUISE,
In politics, a single success at the ballot box will win a life-
once in
you long place, for stay there.
But Len Hutton and Denis Compton, the long-reigning motor-cycle acc Stanley Woods,. ha successor Geoff Duke, rac- and ing driver Stirling Moss; run- ner Sydney Wooderson, boxers
and
In entertainment THE theatrical season is now Aquietly folding up. Olivia de Havilland has come to town in "Candida" after a long and successful tour in the hinter- lond. Miss de Havilland
determina- beauty, but shows no deep per- Shaw's ception or Insight as, heroine.
Bo Dominion and foreign politi A comedy entitled "To Continued" has also opened, cians must climb much higher starring Neil Hamilton. The to get a mention. Truman,
but insppro- Stalin, Nehru, Acheson, Dala
dier, and Taft are there, title is hopeful
Franco und printe
Betty Hutton, who succeeded Hitler was; but
Palace Tito have never got there.
Louis, Randolph Turpin, Bruce Judy Garland at the the
In the Services, rank, ap- Woodcock, tennis players Fred Theatre here, hopes to appear at London's Palladium. If not,
medals Ferry, Bunny Austin, Tony on a secret Mottram, and "Geoffrey Palsh, she will star in a musical film pointment, orders and
Matthews A bemedalled footballers Stanley version of Noel Coward's "De seem to add up sign for Living." Bing Crosby points system." and Fred Astaire would share brigadier may get there before and Stanley Mortensen are alt
an undistinguished
major missing. the billing with Miss Hutton.
Ronald Colman and Charles general,
Wilde
the same with the as nor- have been considered Laughton and Cornel rators for the old Douglas Fair- clergy. Bishops are certainties, banks picture "The Iron Mask," deans, and archdeacons starid a very good chance, canons are but Douglas Fairbanks, Jun.
Jongest will probably do the job him-rare-but some of the
eniries concern partsh parions with g'tled pensi or Aliver self.
longues.
the inhabitants of United Nations. The worn joke is that the air-conditioning doesn't work very well because there is so much
hot air from the delegates.
Personally,
have I would welcomed a little hot air, any I don't like to see this $05,- sort of air, as a sign of energy, 000,000 building being put to such little use.
AS
hun- of
It is
Bound for London
for NLARK GABLE leaves
Paris next week, and will
On page one
Alec
When things are quiet, they apparently are now
(in strange contrast to the world a good idea to use the outside), perhaps it would be dreds of offices, the scores Lever Empire was inspiced and bullt "Quiet,
lounges, the palatial corridors "Yeah,
It's mostly like this for work of scene kind. May- by Englishmen? Why not some tribute to the first Loni unless we have a crisis."
be the United Nations could go then go to London to make the He added wistfully:
business flim Two If By Sea." "We Into the information
with will co-star Leverhulme, some reference to
Guinness for a a crisis haven't had
when it Ands time
***Gable. Two It By Sea" - a while."
· hands.
wretched title-was "The Cock Even Agency Row, where the
Mtail Party" on the stage. newspaper offices are, was *
actress When a Hollywood ghost corridor. There was some
critic
the met a New York. that alight activity in Reuter's and the BBC offices.
other night, she said: "You've
door." rapped me so often I feel like
! Port Sunlight?
of
.
sidewalk
They may learn. THE Bang
superintendents who stand gaping at the glass and steel cliff say to me: "Some build- Ing, ch? Knocks your eye out; never seen anything like It - just shows what we can do in
Soviet publicity
on
Ass
Mr
have
it could help Possibly Elmo Roper, the pollster. Roper has just announced his recent survey reveals that 1,000,000 Americans think that Britain is on Russia's side, and another 30,000,000 either Tass Bureau, Room na opinion or think Britain is THE
C312, was not even graced neutral in the struggle against
Communiam, by an office-boy My guide I say:
"I suppose you know said: "Haven't seen a Tass man
Job worth doing that the Arm is British-inter- for days: they don't use their national may be now, but place much, but their proa- TTERE, is a job for the United originally British."
gundur machine is working over- H Nations spread facts and
foresight. rovide United Nations might
America,"
DURING 1951
13,822 Cases of Tuberculosis
were
notified in. Hongkong
4,167 DIED
This chart reveals the high ratio
at Tuberculosis in the Colony.
The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis. Association trusts that the response to the annual appeal will be even more generous than last year
Donations may be addressed to the Association,
Mesara, Lowp, Bingham 4. Matthewä,
or to the newspapers.
GIVE
HOLLAND
V 'E
lime,"
He led me to the desks and cubby-holes where the corres- tackle the question of Ainert- pondents collect their mail.
can tariffs,
I was with a group of New Stacked high were largo en- York industrialists the other velopes bulging with pamphlets. evening. They were incensed
the about the Moscow
One was addressed to Daily Mail. It contained lavishly produced magazine in
·
cconomic
conference.
One man said angrily to me: colour called Soviet Union and "Surely you're not going to be bigger than Picture Post, 13 glossy green booklet entitled fools enough to fall for all that News, and a newspaper called guff in Moscow about signing contracts and doing trade? I Soviet Weekly. All were print-
am, surprised
good English, and profusely Illustrated. All sang, the greater glories of the USSR.
that
sono
of
ed on good paper, written In your fellows should have a
cepted their hospitality the steaks and the hotel suites and that malarkey. It's just sucker- balt."
My guide said: "The Rus-
stuff--you know, about
Bri
you
Jack Dempsey, ̧
Joe
A fair bet
Indus- NEITHER wealth nor
trial power will, of them- selves, get a man inte Who's Who.
Certainly nobody can buy his way in. For the Just Men, anxious to kill " persistent Slander, devote one of the three paragraphs in the'r unsigned preface to saying: "It cannot N the Civil Service List the be stated too emphatically that inclusion in Who's Who has low-water through the under-secretaries never at any time been a mat- and dips occasionally among ter for payment or of obligation
to purchase the volume."-
weyes
mark
the
secrctomes assistant oop in men with C.B.8 after their names.
Το
new-
of this year's One comers, on Page One, is twice
But it is still a falt bet that some of the 1,002 will feel flattered enough to spend £S on Who's Who, 1952.
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY
launch
By A Doctor
P
It is perhaps a tall order to retired man-he mentions golf, THE dread of old age is
bronchitis fishing, and dancing are all The nest in youth, when prevent rheumatism,
and shortness of breath, though. very well ka their way and cer- we can really feel the poig- it will surely be possible one tainly help to relieve monotony, but it should be easy to but they tall to reconnect sich nuncy of Andrew Marvell's day,
successful medient a person with the active world words:
attack on one of the banes of from which he has been ex-
of many
elderly pelled. persons-fore feet,
The secret of a successful old Any middle-aged person who
is creative activity. Wo thinks he or she is developing can all be Winston Churchille one of the crippling disorders and during the eighth decade of which are wrongly believed to life write masterpieces of his be the inevitable accompaniment torical narrative in the intervals of advancing years, should see of being Prime Minister, but wo a docter straight away.
cap If we feel like it adopt one Churchill hobby and try to point pictures.
But at my back I always existence
hear.
7
ing near.
Time's winged charic hurry
is
However, anticipation always worse than realisation, People who think they will hate growing old would do well to Mr. Kenneth Walker's read.
Age" "Commentary (Jonathan Cape, 129, Bd.) for here is, a book to bring, them comfort.
on
changes.
·dimeuli,
put come In matters of diet and exer We might even ciso common sense should bo bricks together and build a cians don't spare the money or I said: "We'd all of us sell
the guide. Mr Walker does not house or at least a shed. the newsprint." I said: "Do here, but what about your
Mr Walker, who is a well- think that tobacco and alcohol the British distribute much tarifta?"
Old age, of course, The business man sold; "We known murgeon and authority on in moderation are harmful in
with. Q special old age. In fact he agrees with entalls some drastic
gets tain, the Commonwealth?" "My have to protect our own trade. metaphysics,
leaning toward Eastern the proverb that "Wine is the Movement' guide said: "Not a thing, and 1 Besides, wo are letting don't
much from the have the dollars free, so what's philosophies, is himself approach milk an old people." But smok- memory tends to let one down,
ing very eloso to 70.
In his ing must be cut down on the and hearing becomes less acuto. Americans either."
the squawking about?".
far this paltern of experience, old age in
appearance of signs of Untosa
Лекс Wo concluded the tour of the thought, or lacle of thought, can
tolerance to tobacco-chown by Battling doggedly against disconcerting at close quarlem
these handicaps will not Im- väst building by inspecting the be changed the dollar gap will
than it appeared at a distance; irregularity of the heartbeat,
palpitations,
and abdominal prove matiem: It is better to
and walk" "little bar," where the barman, never be bridged.
he mentions particularly, the
give in gracefully in white uniform with
On the home front we have relief of being able to abandon pain.
and for letters UN in blus on his lapel, had a tumultuous week,
The physical preparation for with a stick, admit to falling good attempts to appear admitted business war had, and face even more hectle
younger than one is,
old age need not begin until memory (Mr Walker confesses middle life, but mental content to being unable to remember visiting the massive delegates There is to be another stom lounge, furnished obviously. By bomb explosion,
What is the best preparation ment in later years is deteritin. the number of his house and once invited some friends, tu multi-millionaires. There was It is too bad British, corres for growing old? First of all, it ca much earlier on,
Many elderly people die from dinner with his neighbours), and take to a hearing aid, us no one in the delegates' lounge pondents are being barred from is up to the medical profession
After further searching I witnessing the experiments,
In Kennela Walker's view the Mr Churchill bus done in the ald discover someone in The Bells helped to invent
untal hobbies and sports of # House of Commons. action, Mire Roosevelt was talk the bomb, but now their car
the
days.
to prevent the common bodily boredom.. disorders whici: so often make life a misery to the aged.