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N historian takes a leap ahead of his time and today as- sesses what goes to make this era / significant. He chooses not wars, not dates, not treaties-but the impact of PEOPLE on this age of ours,
INFLUENCE
Two women and ten Britons are
listed among the people who world today
most affect the
are
Only two women listed.
"No one," laments Robinson, "could recom- mend to me any besides Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and Senora Peron." He includes these two, and adds that one disgruntled diplomat said (Lord Alexander), three most orchestral conductor sourly: "The only thing American historical Russian. Only one of our times," is placed next Senora Peron is distinguish writer
Donald Robinson, America's General Lauris to Irving Berlin-"he has ed for is her low-cut neck chief
air force been supreme since Alexan- line," army historian to Norstad-is an Eisenhower, chooses
100 man.
der's Ragtime Band." living people who, in
Picasso 1418 his view have, by force of deeds or per- sonality; most in- fluenced "our civiliza tion in the last 15 years."
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What is the puss- port to the Robinson gallery?
WHO GETS IN?
FORTY-ONE in the chosen Handed
Americans. Bussis comes next,
Britain with ten with 12; then Germany has seven- representativos į France Are; Haly three.
Average age of the Hundred is so zears, nine months. Youngest la 23-year-old Egg Peron 1 The eldest, John Dewey (93).
Twenty-six of the Hundred-Chaplin, And Blain among them came from
poor homies.
Only |__(wo-Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gamet and painter Pics had much succes, beföra ago 20,
Not good works- although philosopher Albert Schweitzer, Pope Pius XII, and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr are there.
Not bad deeds-although the list of 100 includes atom traitor Klaus. Fuchs "be- cause of the great harm he has done."
Comments Robinson:
still the
GREATEST? biggest name in painting"; WHO, of them all, is the
Chaplin the last man in the book-is "the only genius in motion pictures."
Among the arts, Euro- peans lead the way. ("As a group the writers of the United States are not on a war with their Continental confreres," admits Robin son.)
1
greatest? According to Robinson: Albert Einstein.'
Sitting On The Fence
By.... NATHANIEL GUBBINS
*ULLO! Is that the that she is prettier than most
H Bottomless photo of the local gifts.
tomless Pit here.
Mr Lucifer speaking?
At your acruice, Mr. Gub- They also think that the elec bina.
flon of a cat as Beauty Queen
B novelty. Oh, Mr Lucifer. Accord- would not only be
to attract visitors, but allow Moore'a any local mayor to stroke a
the So-and-so Beauty Queen for
Ørst
should have died last month. time without causing a scan
dal,
"It is pointed, out also
that As she would not be the first
Ing ..to. Old
Almanack Joc
Has he arrived yet?.
Here, Mr Gubbins?
Of course, Mr Lucifer.
Are you trying to get
a
scoop for your newspaper?
ought to be groomed for star- dom now.
for.
cat to get a flm contract the
One always tries, Mr Luci-At the moment she is doing
her own grooming in a blare
"If you were the manager of of publicity. That in to say an hotel, Mr Gubbins, would she sits for hours on a win-
you answer all casual telephone dow sill. facing the calls about your guesta?
creet, Mr Lucifor
front,
washing herself all over in the
hope I would be more dis
sunshine, a daring Innovation not In publicity which could Well, Mr Gubbing, I am the be imitated by ordinary ülm manager of the biggest and aspirants without polico Inter most luxurious hotel in the vention. universe. Most of my guests
wish
to keep their address Saucer sensation
.
secret.
Naturally, Mr Luelfer, Suppose,
Mr Gubbins, the NOW that tying saucers sho daughter of a deceased father N being taken seriously by
Now Tang up and asked "I- Daddy the US Air Force and the there?" If he is, am I to an-Fronch Ministry of Informa- swer "Yes" and let the poor on, I might as well reveal the pirl run to her widowed mother story of a flying saucer
that crying "Daddy's En hell, fum- dropped in our garden. my. Daddy's in het!"? My dear
When It had stopped
fend Joe So-and-so has a most volving, three little politielans devoted daughter.
I understand, Mr Lucifer. Imagine her dismay if reade
she
ruch distressing, news in your column. All the same, believe | ing to go anywhere?
That's so. Mr. Lucifer.
from Mars stepped out.
We are a Conution repre- senting the World Government
of The Martian Empire," sald The First
Wo
"The Empire to which a good reporter is jolll-
re, all proud to belong," sald The Second.
"And on which the sun never sets," said The Third.
"No more
war," said
ac-
If you paid us a visit I could hardly prevent you reporting what you see. All food, commodation, and drinks are on the house.
How wonderful, Mr Lucifer, And The Widow, who asks after "her dear Not," would be here to mir the moit delicious cocktails,
Thank you, Mr Lucifer. You're welcome, Mr Gub- bina. Think it over.
Beautiful Lottie
First.
The
Nobody to go to war with," said The Second.
"You can't go to war with
- felt," said The Third.
you?" asked. Thờ "Ever . heard, of, civil
"What about?" asked. The. Second.
war?"
"Anything," said The Third, workers, among the
WL-Laitle, The Devil, Cat. They want
"Ours only work an hour in
said The First, pink pl
it reduced to an hour,"
said The Second, work They don't want to at all." said The Third.
sum- half
"Blast the lazy 50-
so-and-son,"
become Beauty Queen of The biggest mountebank the Southeast coast this
mert
If the Is chosen, will her is Russia's T. D. Lysenko.
("Ho is a charlatan whose success be followed by a Holly-
wood film contract and mar sald The First. "I hate them," genetics are
ringe to a millionaire American "I hate them more then- theories in.
cat7 ridiculous.") The most sinis.
you," said The Third. "I was Russian, ter, another
Who. is asking these ridicu- one of them."
Sir Alexander Fleming. Laurenti P. Berfa, head.of the Scot who discovered the Soviet Secret Police.
tous questions?
The answer is nobody but as The People's Friend,"
"That is as it should be. penicillin, heads the list. of ("No man" alive has more N. Gubbins. Esq., who is try-
men whose work has meant blood on his hands.").
Most of the fighting in World War Two took place on the ground........”
Lord Beaverbrook, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (president-and publisher of Robinson says he was the New York Times), advised in his final choice David Sarnoff (chairman of "by obtaining the opinions the powerful Radio Corpora
sible."!
most to the health of the world.
James Leasor
sald
"The man who was élected her ridiculous_publicity Agent. The Second. What a pal.
"If they don't work how can ing to cush in on the activities we live?" asked The Third, of Lottle.
don't care if "Maybe they All the
who we live or same, prople
not,"
said. Tho, have seen her plcture agree Second.
"Then we must have a clvit. war," said The id
That's
The Into
A MILLIONAIRE TAKES STOCK
Paris.
of ns, many experts as pos- tion of America), RussianHEAVYWEIGHT contenders for Parisian party honours journalist Ilya Ehrenburg, have just taken a drubbing from a sparrow of a man:
Chilean milllomire, Arturo Lopez-Willshaw.
Lopez-Willshaw-an inch over 5ft., taking size fives in shoes spent more than £25,000 on what he called "a surprise party given by my wife for my 51st birthday."
First man in the book is Hollywood's Darryl Zanuck, Joseph Stalin; "the most and de Witt Wallace, power merciless brain of the age behind the Reader's Digest, Robinson's choice for ....It is possible that only are
the most important men in death can halt him."
Press and Communications.
MISTAKES
For a surprise party it must have interfered with three weeks of slestas as workmen directed by France's top interior decorator, M. Jacques Frank, built a ballroom for down people, laid
500
with Molotov is. there Stalin, but Gromyko and Vishinsky are not, Robinson says his experts assured HE says: "It is incontrover-flower-beds, made a second him that in the Soviet tible that Lord Beaver-dance floor and staircase, scheme of things they brook has had more success Down this guests walked to "were, just office boys." as a newspaper publisher in be presented to their host. the last two generations
Was this a Chilean challenge Truman is "the most im- than any other man alive." to Argentina's Carlos ("Party of portant person in the free
the Century") Belstegui, with "world"; Churchill "the most But, "Lord Beaverbrook his Venice bail of last year? heroic figure of the cen- ...has consistently backed "Please do tury"; and Tito "the mildest the wrong men and wrong man who ever alib a throat." ideas." GENEROUSLY,
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his infatuation that his valuable
you want it, we can always alternative accommoda. tion."
collection of modern La co- And legated to the servants' quar- ters.
To a guest who said recently, "Mr Loper-Willshaw, I bellevo say that you are the richest man in, the pleads Mr Lopez Willshaw. world?" he replied: "No. Only "Carlos and are old friends, one of the three richest," I should hate him to think that him. to am trying to outshino
Mc
Quotes
ly Khan at a Paris night
* I can rela with a sandwich
and a bottle of beer,
Samples, Others in world affairs: Nehru, Taft, America's Robinson: in the mid-20's His party was unique," park bench philosopher "he fought the League of Anothes worry; "Please, do Bernard Baruch, Attlee, Nations...." In the 80's not write too much about my Mao Tse-tung, and his rival "he.....approved the np. ball. It is that kind of thing A club; I want a place where
which makes Communists." Chiang Kai-shek now in peasement policies of Chani-
berlain" Formosa.
Lopez-Willshaw, "Recently he has been stating that Mar-looks like a beautifully tailored
kewple with ahall plan ald is bad for carefully brushed back into
his troying halv Britain."
long wave, derives his second gentcation fortune from Chilcan: nitrates and a rare type of Chilean manure,
THE SOLDIERS WHO else is there? Among
the great soldiers of So, in Robinson's view, it the day Eisenhower stands is not necessary for a great high."President or man to be always right. general, he has already won
1
who
Fakes
TARANCE'S Scotland Yard, the
Surete, has created Special Branch to track down fake masterpieces. After six months work the branch con cludes that the painter easlest to copy is Utrillo, The ・ most dificult? Pleasso.
From
General do
right,"
First. "Fighten
them
work. It's the only, way, can keep our lobs,'
WC.
Tho
Tell you what," said Third, when we get back 111 denounce you 48. Fascist swine, which you are; who. hates the workers, which you
do, 1
"And I'll denounce you," sald The First, "as a Communist cannibal, which you are; Who than hates the workers more anybody, which is true. That'll start something. Come Let's go.
on,
What are you doing?" The Third asked The Second,
"As I am neither, a Commu- nist cannibal nor 粮 Fascist swine, hating nobody," said The Second, "I think I'll stay here
Liberal Party and foin the They could do with one more. Struck dumb
A businem exectalive, signing Himself Nortlerner, writes to newspager: "I am 39 years old, yet when alche with women adimira I am! Hierniky
#truck dumb. .: ans celibate, and likely to remain unless I am cured. Is there anything I can do for before I have to take ta
D
R GUBBINS, the Fleet Street
psychiatrist, writes: Northerner was
are more?
probably Gaullo's frightened by women when ho close adviser, M. Ganton was a le boy. This is a Palewski, to General de Gaulle, dairly common experience, na whose party dropped from, first women
frightening Afte Communist NEWSDɑpar to last place in a Paris, by than usual when you are unle Lamahite; Shakespeare had election: a strong recommenda and they are. bls. an intuitive understanding of, tion that the general should take Northerner and the amjority of The only difference between Marxism.
a trip abroad.
grown-up men is that Northerner Tears in their oyosch,, and probably never will has never recovered; from the
Madame Faul Derval, wife of
the director of the Folies Ber- gero; I do not worry about 'my husband. A pastry cool never has a fancy for cakes
So gallant
TRANCE'S circus-like
sport-
ing event, the Tour do France cycle ruce, is da.
at his pge.
The sponder his niche in Valhalla. This la just, because it
appears that even an his- He is married to his cousin MacArthur is, also in torian can make mistakes. Patricia, a petite and exquisite They have no children Field-Marshal Sir William For instance, Robinson de- gure.
and llvá in a monastic-like Slim, admits Robinson, "will acribes Lord Beaverbrooks house, in the Paris suburb of ROM the vench Minister of bear watching-but, he is London home as Stornoway Neuilly.
Education, M. Andra Marie, not one of the Hundred. House 'although Storno- A man with a horror of to the Duchess of Windsor an And now a Swiss joins the lot of
Of: Robinson's choice of way House
badly inpsing into "bad taste" Lopez offer of an 18th-century Left nina top fighting men, five bombed 11 years ago, and Wishaw ranks as the biggest Bank house which she had. ad ure American, one British has not been lived in since spender, in Paris today. His mirod..
latest requisition: a 000-ton "The 200 Most Imparians People: Among leaders in the yacht with a crew of 35.. in the World Today"-published in world of vine arts Ar- Ha 'has a passion for 18th cen Nate York by Pocket Books Inc. turo Toscanini, the fore-tury works of art. So great is 63 12 cente...
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∙as a man of his
will be led to the
to
I chall watch it for further altar the moment he opens, bl proof that Latins are, the most mouth, I advise him tearful athletes in the world, his carly experience ngit
The contenders in this race presence of
ing, remain struck dumb in the weep on the alightest: provoca- rim this way mostly. - French and Italian
women, and take to
tion, and at every opportunity. In this way he will save
money. Despite the crying chorum Hugo Koblet current price of According to rent page new drinking is silll cheaper, spaper reports, "On being told marrying, and as mas
by his doctor that he would would probably drive nervous The house is occupied by a not be able to start in the Northerner to drinks anyway, branch of the Ministry, but, sald, race, Koblet sted bitter tears slicnco will have him, bour M. Marie gallantly, when he and his trainers turned away to money and trouble... met the duchess at lunch, "it hide their emotion,"
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